EP2811761B1 - Dispositif d'antenne pour appareils auditifs - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to an antenna device for hearing instruments, in particular for hearing instruments to be worn in the auditory canal.
- 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 produce from the respective hearing impairment and depending on the principle of action also dependent on ambient noise acoustic output signals that can contribute to reducing the perception of annoying tinnitus or other ear noises.
- Hearing instruments can also be designed 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, comparable such devices, as well as telecommunications and consumer electronics systems.
- Hearing instruments in particular hearing aids, are known in various basic types.
- ITE hearing aids in-the-ear, also IDO or in-the-ear
- a housing containing all functional components including microphone and receiver is at least partially carried in the ear canal.
- CIC hearing aids are similar to ITE hearing aids, but are worn fully in the ear canal.
- RIC-BTE hearing aids (receiver-in-canal behind-the-ear) are similar to BTE 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 at the front of the earpiece tube 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-fit hearing aids are similar to CIC hearing aids. However, while CIC hearing aids are usually located in a more distal (distal) section of the outer Ear canal are worn, deep-fit hearing aids are advanced further to the eardrum (proximal) and at least partially worn in the inner portion of the external auditory canal.
- the external portion of the ear canal is a skin-lined canal connecting the pinna to the eardrum. In the outer portion of the external auditory canal, which adjoins directly to the auricle, this channel is formed of elastic cartilage. In the inner portion of the external auditory canal, the canal is formed by the temporal bone and thus consists of bone.
- the course of the ear canal between cartilaginous and bony sections is usually angled in a (second) kink and includes a different angle from person to person.
- the bony portion of the ear canal is relatively sensitive to pressure and contact.
- Deep-fit hearing aids are at least partially worn in the delicate bony section of the ear canal.
- they When advancing into the bony portion of the ear canal, they must also pass the mentioned second kink, which can be difficult depending on the angle.
- small diameter and tortuous shapes of the ear canal can further complicate advancement.
- All types of hearing aids have in common that the smallest possible housing or designs are sought in order to increase the comfort, optionally to improve the implantability and possibly to reduce the visibility of the hearing aid for cosmetic reasons.
- the aim of the smallest possible design also applies to most other hearing instruments.
- the arrangement of the antenna relative to receiver and hybrid is crucial to the performance of the transmission system. Due to the high packing density, a mutual shielding of the components is necessary.
- the hybrid is typically wrapped with a shield box for this purpose.
- the receiver gets a screen foil or is specially designed so that it is magnetically tight.
- the object of the invention is to specify a hearing instrument, in particular an IDO hearing instrument, which specifies a transmission bandwidth-improved data transmission system with no or only insignificantly increased space and energy requirements.
- the invention solves this problem by an antenna device and by a hearing instrument with the independent claims.
- a basic idea of the invention consists in an antenna device for a hearing instrument, having an antenna arrangement which has a preferred transmission and reception spatial direction, and a further electrical hearing instrument component which emits electromagnetic interference radiation predominantly in an interference radiation spatial direction.
- the antenna arrangement and the further hearing instrument component are arranged such that the transmission and reception spatial direction and the interference radiation spatial direction are oriented transversely to one another in such a way that coupling of interference radiation into the antenna arrangement is reduced.
- the reduction of Interference couplings in the antenna arrangement allows a higher transmission and reception bandwidth with constant volume and energy requirements.
- the further hearing instrument component may be a receiver or another, in particular inductive or electromagnetic radiation emitting component.
- the antenna arrangement comprises a coil antenna
- the further hearing instrument component comprises a coil arrangement which emits the interference radiation
- the coil antenna and the coil arrangement are oriented transversely to one another with respect to their respective longitudinal direction.
- the magnetic field of a coil antenna has a pronounced spatial orientation, so that a significant reduction of the mutual interference coupling is achieved by the orientation transversely to each other.
- the antenna arrangement has a coil core of magnetically permeable material, which is formed at one end to form an at least partially planar screen, which is arranged transversely to the transmitting and receiving spatial direction of the antenna arrangement.
- the two-dimensional shield effects a shielding of the electromagnetic fields and thereby already reduces the mutual interference coupling.
- the permeability enhances the shielding effect.
- the screen effectively causes, as it were, an extension of the antenna or an increase in its efficiency. This results in a higher transmission field strength and a higher reception sensitivity.
- a further advantageous development is that the further hearing aid component is arranged on the screen.
- the arrangement of the hearing instrument component so close to the antenna arrangement with a reasonably low mutual interference coupling is made possible in particular by the mutual shielding. This results in a space-saving Arrangement, which is also suitable for the pre-assembly of the antenna assembly and the other hearing aid component.
- a further advantageous development is that the further hearing aid component is attached to the screen.
- the attachment of the hearing instrument component to the screen together with the antenna assembly forms a preassembled module. This simplifies the further assembly or production of the hearing instrument.
- a further advantageous development consists in that the screen surrounds the further hearing instrument component in the direction away from the antenna core at least in a region of its circumference.
- a further advantageous development consists in that the coil core and / or the screen has metallization contacts for making electrical contact with the coil antenna. This eliminates additional installation work and additional space for contacting the coil antenna, as would occur, for example, when attaching additional Litz wires or flexible printed circuit boards (flexible PCB) for contacting.
- the inner sides of the flange are the most ideal surfaces to apply a metallization. There, the field strength is the lowest, there are less eddy current losses and there is only a low quality influence of the antenna by the contact.
- the metallization on the flange also simplifies the automated production of the antenna, which in turn allows a pre-assembly or favors.
- the further hearing aid component is a receiver and the coil core and the shield have a sound channel passing through the coil antenna.
- Both components can be placed as low as possible in the ear canal to save space.
- an acoustically advantageous placement of the receiver is achieved as close to the eardrum, while the coil antenna is reached close to the IDO hearing instrument of the other (right or left) ear of the user, which positively affects the quality of mutual data transmission.
- the sound channel has the additional advantage that the field lines of the coil antenna thereby additionally compressed in the transmitting and receiving direction and thus the antenna quality is further improved.
- the receiver is an electrodynamic transducer and thus the receiver contains a magnetic circuit which has an excitation winding.
- the receiver is typically fed with a pulse density modulated signal having spectral components in the frequency band of the data transmission system.
- This control is very energy efficient and is therefore used in hearing instruments.
- the spectral components can not be avoided without a strong increase in the energy requirement of the hearing instrument.
- the receiver is the largest consumer in the hearing instrument.
- the energy requirements of the appreciatedtragungssytems is very small and, accordingly, its receiving sensitivity to magnetic interferers is quite large.
- the magnetic circuit and thus also the receiver winding are aligned 90 ° to the antenna. This greatly reduces the coupling of the receiver winding to the antenna.
- the antenna can thus be placed much closer to the receiver.
- the combination of the transversal receiver and the antenna is optimized for the tapered shell contour at the tip of the IDO hearing instrument, minimizing the installation length.
- the placement at the tip of the IDO hearing instrument increases the fitting rate and reduces the size of the hearing instrument.
- more freedom of positioning of the faceplate is possible because the antenna is no longer on or near the faceplate.
- eliminating the effort to place the antenna on or near the faceplate since the tip of the IDO hearing instrument represents a pre-given position. This also eliminates the consideration of physical restrictions, eg of magnetic field disturbances that is required when placed in the area of the faceplate.
- the interference can be reduced to the antenna by using an antenna core, which is additionally provided with a shield between the receiver and antenna.
- the antenna core thus extended to a flange is made entirely of ferrite material or other permeable material.
- the flange preferably covers (best space / performance ratio) the whole area of the receiver. Due to the extended antenna core, the field lines of the excitation winding of the receiver are returned concentrated so that only a very small number of field lines pass through the antenna windings. It is prevented that current is induced in the antenna winding and thus interference from the receiver are greatly reduced.
- the shielding by the antenna core designed as a flange makes additional measures, such as screen foil, and their installation unnecessary.
- Another advantage of the flange is that the antenna quality can be increased. With the same inductance thereby the required number of turns can be reduced, so that in turn the diameter of the single turn, typically enameled copper wire, can be increased.
- the flange may also extend around the edges of the receiver. For this are all four edges of the receiver and their permutations conceivable and bring a more or less large amplification of the decoupling effect.
- a further advantageous development is that the inner wall of the sound channel and / or the side facing away from the coil core of the screen is covered with sound-absorbing material.
- the sound insulation causes a favorable for the use of the receiver vibration decoupling.
- the interference mentioned reduce the performance of the data transmission system sensitive, so that a high bandwidth with low energy consumption is limited achievable.
- the sound channel 17 extends through the coil core 22 and through the shield 26 to the receiver 14.
- the coil core 22 is covered on the inside by a tube 21 formed as a sound-insulating or vibration-damping material.
- the tube 21 surrounds the sound channel 17 from the antenna-side output to the receiver 14 and is there formed parallel to the plate 26 flat.
- the receiver 14 is mounted on the surface-shaped part of the tube 21 and thus also vibration isolated. Round extensions of the sound or vibration damping material are used in addition to the device integrated vibration-decoupled suspension of the device in the housing of the hearing instrument.
- the module can be pre-installed or pre-assembled in the hearing instrument.
- the pre-assembly of the antenna receiver module on the flange formed by the coil core 22 and the tube 21 reduces the assembly effort in the manufacture of the hearing instrument and thus simplifies the manufacturing process.
- a further simplification is achieved in that the coil core 22 is equipped with metallization contacts 38, which serve to contact the antenna 16. Not shown interconnects connect the metallization 38 with the terminals of the antenna 16. For this purpose, further, not shown metallization provided be, with which the winding or windings of the antenna 16 are contacted.
- Fig. 5 the field line distribution of the coil antenna with shield is shown schematically.
- the permeable coil core 22 together with the shield 26, on the one hand shields the region remote from the antenna 16 behind the shield 26.
- a receiver arranged in this region is accordingly shielded by the shield 26 from interference signals from the antenna protected.
- the field line density is increased in the axial direction on the opposite side of the shield 26 of the antenna, and thus in the transmitting and receiving direction of the antenna.
- the coil core 22 with integrally formed shield 26 accordingly effects a field characteristic optimized for the transmission and reception of data in the axial direction. This effect would be additionally increased if, which is not the case in the illustrated simulation, the spool core 22 has a through opening, for example the sound channel explained above.
- Fig. 6 the field line profile of a receiver coil working receiver is shown schematically.
- the receiver coil 23 is arranged axially, that is, oriented in the longitudinal direction. It can be seen that the receiver coil 23 generates a strongly compressed (magnetic) field in the axial direction, while it generates a relatively weak (magnetic) field in the radial direction, that is, in the figure to the right and left.
- Fig. 7 the field line profile of the receiver is shown with shielding.
- the receiver 14 is arranged in the figure on the right of the above-described shield 26 of the permeable coil core 22.
- the coil core 22 carries the antenna 16.
- Previously explained metallization contacts 38 are integrated in the coil core 22 and serve to electrically contact the antenna 16.
- FIG. 9 a further embodiment of the antenna receiver module is shown.
- the spool core 32 is formed as described above on one side as a screen 37.
- An antenna 36 is wound on the spool core 32.
- Metallization contacts 38 are used for electrical contacting of the antenna.
- the spool core 32 surrounds the receiver 34 arranged there, at least in the region shown in the figure above and below.
- the shield 37 or the coil core 32 is designed cup-shaped there, so that the receiver 34 surrounded by the coil core 32 and the shield 37 at least in a region of the shield periphery in the direction away from the antenna 36 direction.
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- Dispositif d'antenne destiné à un appareil auditif (13),
comportant un système d'antenne (16, 36), qui présente une direction spatiale d'émission et de réception préférée, et comportant un autre composant d'appareil auditif électrique, qui émet un rayonnement électromagnétique parasite principalement dans une direction spatiale de rayonnement parasite,- le système d'antenne (16, 36) et l'autre composant d'appareil auditif sont disposés de telle manière que la direction spatiale d'émission et de réception et la direction spatiale de rayonnement parasite sont orientés transversalement l'un à l'autre de manière à réduire une injection de rayonnement parasite dans le système d'antenne (16, 36),caractérisé en ce que
le dispositif d'antenne (16, 36) comporte un noyau de bobine (22, 32) constitué de matériau magnétiquement perméable, qui est formé au niveau d'une extrémité sur un écran au moins partiellement plat (26, 37) et qui est disposé transversalement à une direction spatiale d'émission et de réception du système d'antenne (16, 36), en ce que
l'autre composant d'appareil auditif est un récepteur (14, 34) et en ce que
le noyau de bobine (22, 32) et le blindage (26, 37) comportent un canal acoustique (17) traversant. - Dispositif d'antenne selon la revendication 1,
caractérisé en ce que le système d'antenne (16, 36) comprend une antenne à bobine, en ce que l'autre composant d'appareil auditif comprend un système de bobines (23) qui émet le rayonnement parasite et en ce que l'antenne à bobine et le système de bobines (23) sont orientés transversalement l'un à l'autre par rapport à leur direction longitudinale respective. - Dispositif d'antenne selon la revendication 1 ou 2,
caractérisé en ce que l'autre composant d'appareil auditif est disposé sur l'écran (26, 37). - Dispositif d'antenne selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes,
caractérisé en ce que l'autre composant d'appareil auditif est fixé à l'écran (26, 37). - Dispositif d'antenne selon la revendication l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes,
caractérisé en ce que l'écran (26, 37) entoure, dans au moins une région de sa circonférence, l'autre composant d'appareil auditif, dans la direction opposée au système d'antenne (16, 36). - Dispositif d'antenne selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes,
caractérisé en ce que le noyau de bobine (22, 32) et/ou l'écran (26, 37) comporte des contacts de métallisation (38) destinés à être mis en contact électrique avec le dispositif d'antenne (16, 36). - Dispositif d'antenne selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la paroi intérieure du canal acoustique (17) et/ou la face de l'écran (26, 37) opposée au noyau de bobine (22, 32) est/sont revêtue(s) de matériau d'amortissement acoustique.
- Appareil auditif comportant un dispositif d'antenne selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes.
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