EP0186748A2 - Appareil auditif à porter dans l'oreille ou dans le canal auditif - Google Patents

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EP0186748A2
EP0186748A2 EP85113515A EP85113515A EP0186748A2 EP 0186748 A2 EP0186748 A2 EP 0186748A2 EP 85113515 A EP85113515 A EP 85113515A EP 85113515 A EP85113515 A EP 85113515A EP 0186748 A2 EP0186748 A2 EP 0186748A2
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Heinz Hardt
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; ELECTRIC HEARING AIDS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R25/00—Electric hearing aids
    • 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; ELECTRIC HEARING AIDS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R25/00—Electric hearing aids
    • H04R25/60—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles
    • H04R25/603—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles of mechanical or electronic switches or control elements
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; ELECTRIC HEARING AIDS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R25/00—Electric hearing aids
    • H04R25/60—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles
    • H04R25/609—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles of circuitry
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; ELECTRIC HEARING AIDS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R25/00—Electric hearing aids
    • H04R25/65—Housing parts, e.g. shells, tips or moulds, or their manufacture
    • H04R25/652—Ear tips; Ear moulds
    • H04R25/656—Non-customized, universal ear tips, i.e. ear tips which are not specifically adapted to the size or shape of the ear or ear canal
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; ELECTRIC HEARING AIDS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R25/00—Electric hearing aids
    • H04R25/65—Housing parts, e.g. shells, tips or moulds, or their manufacture
    • H04R25/658—Manufacture of housing parts

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  • the invention relates to a hearing aid for wearing in the ear or in the ear canal, with an ear cup receiving the sound transducer and an amplifier and a mounting plate containing the battery compartment and the volume adjuster, which is placed on the ear cup and detachably connected to it.
  • Hearing aids for the hearing impaired to be worn in the ear or in the ear canal are generally constructed today so that the device essentially consists of a mounting plate and the hollow or hollow ear made as standard or individually (according to the impression of the ear) as a housing.
  • the mounting plate contains the battery compartment with a cover and a combination of an off / on switch and volume control.
  • the amplifier and the microphone are usually also attached to the underside of the mounting plate.
  • the handset is usually first installed in the ear cup and then the mounting plate with all the components attached to it is glued to the hollow ear cup as a lid.
  • the mounting plate is initially larger in diameter than the largest ear cup to be expected. After gluing, the supernatant is milled off.
  • the circumference of the mounting plate can be adapted from the outset to that of the ear cup, and there is no need for milling.
  • the ear cup is fastened to the mounting plate by gluing both parts, it also being irrelevant whether the ear cup is made of metal or of plastic (mostly acrylic). Now this gluing is disadvantageous insofar as it is very difficult to subsequently open the device for repair or for other reasons. Breaking the adhesive requires a lot of skill and experience if the device is not to be completely destroyed.
  • the inner part is as small as possible to hold the battery, volume control, amplifier, etc. and is snapped into the outer part surrounding it.
  • the outer ring is glued to the ear cup and milled if necessary, and then the inner active part is inserted into the outer one.
  • the main disadvantage of this solution is that the active inner part of the plate cannot be made smaller than in all other constructions and that the surrounding outer fastening ring takes up additional space. This solution is therefore not particularly advantageous for small devices to be worn in the ear canal.
  • the object of the invention is to eliminate the disadvantages of the known hearing aids. This is achieved on the basis of a hearing aid of the type mentioned at the outset in that the peripheral outer edge of the mounting plate is connected to the upper edge of the ear cup by detachable fastening means arranged on the circumference. The connection is made by screws.
  • An advantageous embodiment consists in that locking tabs are arranged on the edge of the mounting plate, which snap into corresponding slots or depressions in the ear cup.
  • the ear cup has molded locking lugs on its inside which snap into corresponding recesses on the edge of the mounting plate or that the ear cup and mounting plate are connected to one another by pins which can be pressed into the bore in the wall of the ear cup or the mounting plate.
  • FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a hearing aid according to the invention.
  • the mounting plate 1 with battery compartment 2, battery cover 3 and volume control 4 is provided on its underside with a circumferential outer edge 5, which results from the walls of the compartment in the area of the battery compartment.
  • This edge 5 fits more or less exactly into the upper opening of the ear cavity 6.
  • the sound transducers and the amplifier are accommodated in a known manner, not shown.
  • the mounting plate 1 is fastened in the ear cavity 6 by at least two screws, evenly distributed on the circumference, which are screwed into corresponding threads in the outer edge 5 of the plate 1.
  • countersunk screws 7 or cylinder head screws 8 can be used.
  • Figure 4 shows another possible type of fastening according to the invention, which is particularly suitable for thin-walled, e.g. ear cups produced by galvanic deposition of silver is well suited.
  • Lugs 9 are formed on the edge of the mounting plate and snap into corresponding slots 10 in the ear cavity 6. These slots 10 can easily be made in metal troughs 6 by punching.
  • Figure 5 shows another compound of the invention, e.g. is well suited for relatively thick-walled plastic ear molds.
  • detents 11 are formed, which engage in corresponding recesses 12 on the edge 5 of the mounting plate 1, which e.g. injected or can be attached afterwards by milling.
  • the catch could e.g. be formed by pressing in a corresponding bead (FIG. 6) or by bending part of the upper edge of the depression (FIG. 7, 8).
  • Figure 9 shows a possibility of connecting the two parts by pins 13 attached to the circumference of the mounting plate 1, e.g. made of stainless steel, which are pressed into corresponding holes 14, 15, the wall of the ear cup 6 or the mounting plate 1.
  • the (or) leading into the battery compartment 2 pin (s) from the outside with a needle or the like. to penetrate inside.
  • the mounting plate 1 can then be unhooked from the ear cavity 6 without difficulty.
  • the fastening according to the invention is used in the case of individually made ear molds according to the patient's ear impression, it cannot be assumed that the mounting plate will fit from the outset into the usually somewhat larger opening of the ear mold. But you can help yourself by gluing suitable tabs or angles to the underside of the plate, which then receive the fasteners or, if the mounting plate is of sufficient thickness, milled off such that at least in the area of the fasteners an approximately form-fitting fit with the ear mold is achieved becomes.
  • FIGS. 10 and 11 in each of which only one half of the ear cup is shown, show such applications.
  • a plastic bracket 21 is glued to the underside of the mounting plate 1, which is usually kept larger in this type of device, and is connected to the now individually made ear mold 6, for example by a screw 7. After connecting the Mounting plate 1 with the recess 6, the mounting plate 1 is milled in a known manner along the line AA corresponding to the circumference of the ear recess 6.
  • FIG. 11 Another possible embodiment is shown in FIG. 11.
  • the thickness of the mounting plate 1 is kept somewhat larger from the outset. With a suitable device, this thickness is milled along the line B-B according to the contour of the ear cavity 6 to such an extent that there is again a corresponding edge for attaching the fastening means (screw, pin, etc.). Finally, the excess of the mounting plate 1 is milled off again along the line A-A.
  • the connection between mounting plate 1 and trough 6 can be made in one of the ways mentioned above.

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EP85113515A 1984-11-26 1985-10-24 Appareil auditif à porter dans l'oreille ou dans le canal auditif Withdrawn EP0186748A3 (fr)

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AT0374784A ATA374784A (de) 1984-11-26 1984-11-26 Hoergeraet zum tragen im ohr oder im ohrkanal
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US4860362A (en) * 1987-09-08 1989-08-22 Siemens Hearing Instruments, Inc. Hearing aid and method for making it
EP0365073A1 (fr) * 1988-10-13 1990-04-25 Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. Appareil de correction auditive intra-auriculaire
WO1999027755A1 (fr) * 1997-11-24 1999-06-03 Nhas National Hearing Aids Systems Prothese auditive
AU746161B2 (en) * 1997-11-24 2002-04-18 Bernafon Australia Pty. Ltd. Hearing aid
EP1965605A3 (fr) * 2007-03-01 2012-01-04 Siemens Audiologische Technik GmbH Moyen de fixation à ressort
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EP1988745A1 (fr) * 2007-05-01 2008-11-05 Siemens Hearing Instruments, Inc. Procédé d'assemblage pour aide auditive personnalisée
EP2416595A1 (fr) * 2010-08-03 2012-02-08 Siemens Medical Instruments Pte. Ltd. Appareil auditif doté d'un boîtier moulé par injection en une pièce
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US9380396B2 (en) 2010-08-03 2016-06-28 Sivantos Pte. Ltd. Hearing instrument with an integral injection-molding casing

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DK532785A (da) 1986-05-27
DK532785D0 (da) 1985-11-18

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