EP2645744A2 - Appareil auditif avec tuyau flexible pour connecter un écouteur - Google Patents

Appareil auditif avec tuyau flexible pour connecter un écouteur Download PDF

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EP2645744A2
EP2645744A2 EP13160356.5A EP13160356A EP2645744A2 EP 2645744 A2 EP2645744 A2 EP 2645744A2 EP 13160356 A EP13160356 A EP 13160356A EP 2645744 A2 EP2645744 A2 EP 2645744A2
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Aun Yong Hong
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R25/00—Deaf-aid sets, i.e. electro-acoustic or electro-mechanical hearing aids; Electric tinnitus maskers providing an auditory perception
    • H04R25/60—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles
    • H04R25/607—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles of earhooks
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R25/00—Deaf-aid sets, i.e. electro-acoustic or electro-mechanical hearing aids; Electric tinnitus maskers providing an auditory perception
    • H04R25/65—Housing parts, e.g. shells, tips or moulds, or their manufacture
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R2225/00—Details of deaf aids covered by H04R25/00, not provided for in any of its subgroups
    • H04R2225/021—Behind the ear [BTE] hearing aids
    • H04R2225/0213—Constructional details of earhooks, e.g. shape, material
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R2225/00—Details of deaf aids covered by H04R25/00, not provided for in any of its subgroups
    • H04R2225/021—Behind the ear [BTE] hearing aids
    • H04R2225/0216—BTE hearing aids having a receiver in the ear mould
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R25/00—Deaf-aid sets, i.e. electro-acoustic or electro-mechanical hearing aids; Electric tinnitus maskers providing an auditory perception
    • H04R25/75—Electric tinnitus maskers providing an auditory perception

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  • the invention relates to a hearing instrument for carrying behind or in or on the auricle with external, worn in the auditory canal listener, which is connected via a receiver tube with the hearing aid housing.
  • the receiver tube is flexibly adjustable both in terms of length and in terms of rotation.
  • Hearing instruments can be designed for example as hearing aids.
  • a hearing aid is used to supply a hearing-impaired person with acoustic ambient signals that are processed and amplified for compensation or therapy of the respective hearing impairment. It consists in principle of one or more input transducers, of a signal processing device, of an amplification device, and of an output transducer.
  • the input transducer is typically a sound receiver, e.g. a microphone, and / or an electromagnetic receiver, e.g. an induction coil.
  • the output transducer is usually as an electroacoustic transducer, z. As miniature speaker, or as an electromechanical transducer, z.
  • the output transducer generates output signals that are routed to the patient's ear and are intended to produce a hearing sensation in the patient.
  • the amplifier is usually integrated in the signal processing device.
  • the hearing aid is powered by a battery integrated into the hearing aid housing.
  • the essential components of a hearing aid are usually arranged on a printed circuit board as a circuit carrier or connected thereto.
  • Tinnitus maskers are used to treat tinnitus patients. They generate from the respective hearing impairment and depending on the operating principle also dependent on ambient noise acoustic output signals that can contribute to reducing the perception of annoying tinnitus or other ear noises.
  • Hearing aids are known in various basic housing configurations.
  • IDO hearing aids in-the-ear, including ITE or in-the-ear
  • a case containing all the functional components, including the microphone and receiver is mostly worn in the ear canal.
  • Completely-in-Canal (CIC) hearing aids are similar to IDO hearing aids, but are worn fully in the ear canal.
  • a housing with components such as battery and signal processing device is worn behind the ear and a flexible sound tube, also referred to as tube, directs the acoustic output signals of a receiver from Housing to the ear canal, where often an ear piece on the tube for reliable positioning of the tube end is provided in the ear canal.
  • RIC-BTE hearing aids (receiver-in-canal behind-the-ear) are similar to HDO hearing aids, but the receiver is carried in the ear canal and instead of a sound tube, a flexible earpiece tube conducts electrical signals instead of acoustic signals to the receiver, which is on the front of the earpiece attached, usually in a reliable positioning in the ear canal serving ear piece.
  • RIC-BTE hearing aids are often used as so-called open-fit devices, in which the auditory canal remains open for the passage of sound and air to reduce the disturbing occlusion effect.
  • Deep-ear canal hearing aids are similar to the CIC hearing aids. However, while CIC hearing aids are typically worn in the outer portion of the external ear canal, deep ear canal hearing aids are advanced further toward the eardrum and at least partially supported in the inward portion of the external ear canal.
  • the external (distal) ear canal is a skin-lined canal connecting the pinna to the eardrum.
  • this channel is made of elastic Cartilage formed.
  • the inner (proximal) part of the channel is formed by the temporal bone and thus consists of bone.
  • the course of the ear canal between cartilaginous and bony part is usually slightly kinked and includes a different angle from person to person.
  • the bony part of the ear canal is relatively sensitive to pressure and contact.
  • Deep-ear canal hearing aids are at least partially worn in the delicate bony part of the ear canal.
  • they When advancing into the bony part of the ear canal, they must also pass the mentioned kink, which can be difficult depending on the angle of the kink.
  • small diameter and tortuous shapes of the ear canal can further complicate advancement.
  • All housing configurations have in common is that as small a housing as possible be sought in order to increase the comfort and to reduce the visibility of the hearing aid for cosmetic reasons.
  • Hearing instruments can also be embodied as telephones, mobile phones, headsets, headphones, MP3 players or other telecommunications or consumer electronics systems.
  • hearing instrument is understood to mean both hearing aids and tinnitus maskers and comparable such devices, telecommunication and consumer electronics systems.
  • a possibility of individual adaptation to the ear shape and auditory canal shape of the user is desirable.
  • a receiver tube is usually elastic in itself and thus flexibly adaptable within certain limits, an increase in flexibility can be advantageous.
  • An increase in flexibility can, for example, promote daytime comfort be support a better fixation in particular of the listener in the ear canal, or allows a favorable placement of the hearing instrument housing and the listener. Therefore, the possibility of flexible adaptation of both the length and the rotation of the listener tube in itself is desirable.
  • an HDO hearing aid which has a receiver connected via a receiver tube.
  • the receiver tube consists of two sections, which are longitudinally displaceable against each other. A compensation of the length of the lying electrical cable takes place in that the projecting portion of the cable is received in a reservoir in the housing of the hearing instrument.
  • the handset tube with handset is mounted in the housing of the hearing instrument.
  • an HDO hearing aid which has a connected via an electrical cable handset.
  • the cable is not covered by a tube and can be pushed into the housing of the hearing instrument at different levels.
  • Inside the housing of the hearing instrument electrical contact is provided, which electrically contacts the cable regardless of the respective sliding position.
  • the electrical contact can be designed as a sliding contact and have locking positions.
  • the receiver tube is mounted in the housing of the hearing instrument and the receiver is connected via a terminal plug.
  • the object of the invention is to specify a hearing instrument for carrying behind or in or on the external ear, carried in the ear canal listener, which is connected via a receiver tube to the hearing aid housing, indicating a flexible adaptability of the listener tube connection both in terms Guaranteed length as well as in terms of rotational position and at the same time is inexpensive and space-saving.
  • the invention solves this problem by a hearing system, a hearing instrument and a handset with the features of the independent claims.
  • a basic idea of the invention resides in a hearing system comprising a housing, a receiver, and a receiver tube connected to the case and the receiver, wherein a receiver tube connector is provided which connects a housing-side section of the receiver tube to a receiver-side section of the receiver tube the receiver tube connector is adapted to form an electrically conductive and a mechanically stable against loosening connection, which allows a variable and reversible longitudinal displacement and rotation of the two sections of the tube against each other.
  • the receiver hose connector by means of which the housing and receiver are connected, is arranged in the receiver hose, an arrangement which is also referred to as "in-line" in other technical fields.
  • This eliminates the need to provide on or in the housing a flexible connector for the listener tube, referred to as a connector in hearing aids.
  • the housing-side receiver tube section may be firmly mounted in the housing in a space-saving manner.
  • both the electrical and mechanical connections between the housing and the earphone are made.
  • the integration of both types of connection allows a space-saving and thus also cosmetically advantageous design.
  • this integration simplifies handling both during assembly and during maintenance or replacement, especially when the electrical and mechanical connections are both released or closed in a single handling step or handle.
  • the receiver hose connector it is longitudinally and rotationally flexible. This improves the flexible adaptation to individual needs.
  • longitudinal variability allows adaptation to different ear greetings and auditory canal depths
  • rotational variability allows for fitting to the right or left ear.
  • an advantageous embodiment is that the electrical connection is formed by a rotationally symmetrical electrically conductive plug and a rotationally symmetrical electrically conductive socket of the Hörerschlauch connector, wherein the plug and the socket are formed such that a variable and reversible insertion depth of the plug into the socket is possible.
  • This is an easily manageable and uncomplicated plug principle realized, which supports the rotational and longitudinal variability.
  • a further advantageous embodiment is that the Hörerschlauch connector several in the longitudinal direction of the listener tube has successively arranged detent positions, which allows a locking of the receiver tube connector at each differently different longitudinally displaced portions of the receiver tube.
  • the locking positions allow easy handling with good tactile feedback and thus increase user comfort.
  • detent positions ensure a good fixation in the respectively desired length of the receiver tube.
  • a further advantageous embodiment consists in that the different locking positions are formed by a respective circumferential bulge or curvature of the handset side or the housing-side component of the receiver tube connector.
  • Circumferential bulges or bulges represent a structurally inexpensive and reliable functioning design of longitudinal detent positions with simultaneous rotational variability. In addition, their operation is well known and intuitively easy to detect, which increases the handling comfort.
  • a further advantageous embodiment is that the Hörerschlauch connector is formed such that the connection of the two sections of the listener tube is reversibly detachable.
  • the connection of the two sections of the listener tube is reversibly detachable.
  • FIG. 1 a hearing system 1 with earphone tube connector 5 is shown in perspective.
  • the hearing system 1 comprises a housing 2, which is designed to be worn behind the ear. It is thus an HDO or BTE device that can be designed, for example, as a hearing aid.
  • the housing 2 is connected via a receiver tube 4 with a handset 3.
  • the handset 3 may be a conventional hearing aid receiver.
  • the receiver tube 4 consists of a plastic wrapper, which may be made of cosmetic reasons with a small diameter and possibly transparent. The plastic material gives the listener tube 4 a certain flexibility and elasticity.
  • electrical leads are routed which electrically connect the handset 3 to the housing 2 and the electronic components, e.g. a signal amplifier, connect.
  • the listener tube 4 has a listener-side section 7 and a housing-side section 6.
  • the two sections 6, 7 are interconnected by a tube connector connected.
  • the receiver tube connector 5 is thus arranged in the tube 4 "in-line”.
  • the handset hose connector 5 is designed so that on the one hand, the mechanical connection of the two sections 6, 7 produces, so that the connection can not be solved by itself and inadvertently.
  • the receiver hose connector 5 establishes the electrical connection for the electrical lines routed in the receiver hose 4 in order to electrically connect the receiver 3 to the housing 2.
  • the receiver tube connector 5 is designed so that it is mechanically stable against unintentional release of the connection of the two tube sections 6, 7, but at the same time allows rotation and longitudinal displacement of the tube sections 6, 7 with respect to each other.
  • the listener-side section 7 in the listener tube connector 5 can be rotated relative to the housing-side section 6 and pushed together or pulled apart.
  • This force can be adjusted by adjusting these properties preferably so that on the one hand a rotating or pushing together or pulling by hand without special effort is possible, on the other hand, however, an inadvertent rotation or collapse or Auseinanerteil is prevented.
  • the hearing system 1 explained above with the tube 4 is shown on the left side.
  • the left-hand side means that the handset-side section 7 of the handset tube 5 together with the handset 3 is pivoted such that the hearing system 1 can be worn on the left ear of a user.
  • the illustrated hearing system 1 comprises the components explained above Housing 2, the housing-side section 6 of the handset tube 7, the handset-side section 4 including the handset 3, and receiver tube connector 5.
  • Housing 2 the housing-side section 6 of the handset tube 7, the handset-side section 4 including the handset 3, and receiver tube connector 5.
  • FIG. 3 is the above-explained hearing system 1 with the components housing 2, receiver tube 4 and receiver tube connector 5 shown in the right-side setting.
  • the handset-side section 4 of the handset tube including handset 3 is rotated to the right side, so that the hearing system 1 of the illustrated orientation can be worn on the right ear of a user.
  • the rotation of the listener-side section 4 and the listener 3 to the right relative to the above-described rotation to the left follows reversibly and variably with respect to the rotation angle in the listener tube connector 5.
  • FIG. 4 For example, the previously explained hearing system 1 with the above-explained component housing 2, earphone tube 4, earpiece 3, sections 6, 7 of the earphone tube 4 and earphone tube connector 5 is shown again in the left-side setting.
  • the housing-side section 6 of the receiver tube 4 and the handset-side section 7 are pushed together as far as possible.
  • the variability with respect to the pushing together is ensured by the receiver tube connector 5, ie the sections 6, 7 are pushed together by pushing together the receiver tube connector 5. This causes a shortening of the receiver tube 4.
  • FIG. 5 the previously explained hearing system 1 with housing 2 and earpiece 3 and earphone tube 4 is shown again.
  • the sections 6, 7 of the receiver tube 4 are further pulled apart in the receiver tube connector 5.
  • the length of the receiver tube 4 thus assumes a medium level.
  • FIG. 6 the previously explained hearing system 1 with housing 2 and earpiece 3 is shown again.
  • the section 6 and the section 7 of the receiver tube 4 in the receiver tube connector 5 are pulled apart as far as possible. This results in the greatest possible total length of the receiver tube 4.
  • the housing 2 of the previously explained hearing system is shown. It comprises the housing-side section 6 of the receiver tube 4, with which it is firmly connected.
  • the housing-side portion 6 may be fixedly mounted and wired in the housing 2.
  • no plug or connector for the listener tube 4 is provided on or in the housing 2.
  • the housing-side component 12 of the receiver tube connector 5 is disposed on the housing 2 opposite end of the housing-side portion 6 of the tube 4.
  • a handset with the handset-side component 11 must be connected to the housing-side component 12 of the receiver tube connector 5.
  • the housing-side component 12 of the receiver hose connector not otherwise shown, is designed as such that a reversibly detachable and pluggable connection is possible. In this way, a modular design is created, which allows a simple replacement of the separate handset 3 together with the handset-side section 7 of the receiver tube 3 of the handset-side component 11 of the receiver tube connector 5.
  • FIG. 8 the handset 3 of the above-explained hearing system including the handset-side section 7 of the handset tube 4 is shown. Together with the above-described housing 2 together with the housing-side section 6 of the receiver tube 4, it serves to complete the hearing system explained above.
  • the handset-side component 11 of the receiver tube connector 5 is shown.
  • the previously explained housing-side component 12 can be plugged together reversibly detachable with the handset-side component 11, so as to close the receiver tube connector 5 and thus complete the hearing system as a whole.
  • FIG. 9 the receiver hose connector 5 is shown separated, ie the reversibly releasable connection is released.
  • Each of the two components 11, 12 of the receiver tube connector 5 terminates at the listener tube 4, which encloses the respective component 11, 12.
  • the end of the receiver tube 4 of the component shown in the figure below is designed with a circumferential bulge 13.
  • the bulge 13 represents the mechanical part of the component.
  • the electrical leads are guided, which end in a pin-shaped, rotationally symmetric plug 8 and one of them electrically isolated cylindrical rotationally symmetrical plug 18.
  • the plugs 8, 18 form the electrical part of the component.
  • the electrical connections are formed by a rotationally symmetrical bushing 19 and one rotationally symmetrical bushing 9 electrically insulated therefrom.
  • the bushes 9, 19 are designed and dimensioned so that they can receive the plug 8, 18 and thereby make an electrical connection.
  • the rotational symmetry thereby causes the two components of the receiver tube connector 5 can be rotated against each other.
  • the elongated design further ensures that the connector can be closed with variable insertion depth or depth of insertion.
  • the receiver tube 4 of the component of the receiver tube connector 5 shown in the figure above has circumferential bulges 10 which follow one another in the longitudinal direction of the receiver tube 4. They are such and dimensioned that they can each accommodate the circumferential bulge 13 of the other component. This results in three successive locking positions for the receiver hose connector 5.
  • the dimensions and materials of the components are chosen so that the detent positions of the Hörerschlauch connector 5 can be manually adjusted without special Krauftaufwand one hand, but on the other hand, an additional backup against unintentional pulling apart or pushing together.
  • FIG. 10 the earphone hose connector 5 explained above is shown plugged together in a first detent position.
  • the detent position shown is the furthest apart and thus causes the largest overall length of the tube 3.
  • FIG. 11 the earphone hose connector 5 explained above is shown plugged together in a second, middle detent position.
  • the detent position shown causes a mean total length of the tube 3.
  • FIG. 12 the previously explained handset hose connector 5 is shown in a third, maximally pushed together detent position.
  • the illustrated detent position represents the maximum pushed together adjustment of the receiver tube connector 5, which corresponds to the smallest overall length of the above-explained handset tube 4.

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