EP1624720A2 - Boîtier d'équipement placé derrière l'oreille avec propriétés autoadhésives - Google Patents

Boîtier d'équipement placé derrière l'oreille avec propriétés autoadhésives Download PDF

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EP1624720A2
EP1624720A2 EP05023815A EP05023815A EP1624720A2 EP 1624720 A2 EP1624720 A2 EP 1624720A2 EP 05023815 A EP05023815 A EP 05023815A EP 05023815 A EP05023815 A EP 05023815A EP 1624720 A2 EP1624720 A2 EP 1624720A2
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hearing aid
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Josef Wagner
Ora Bürkli-Halevy
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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
    • H04R25/658—Manufacture of housing parts
    • 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
    • H04R25/607—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles of earhooks

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  • the present invention relates to a microelectronic device such as a hearing aid according to the preamble of claim 1, a method for its production, a device for positionally safe placement of hearing aids, and methods for non-slip
  • Hearing aids in particular behind the ear hearing aids, are getting smaller and the hook, which holds the hearing aid in position behind the ear, is getting finer and thinner.
  • One solution to the problem is to use a clip-type positioner to place a device behind the device To keep the ear in place, but not particularly carrier friendly.
  • the hearing aid housing at least partially has a non-slip surface, or that a means or a
  • the non-slip or non-slip surface is preferably located in a region of the device which has contact with the carrier.
  • This non-slip or adhesively formed surface can, for example, consist of an elastomeric polymer or have an agent such as a hydrogel, which may optionally also have self-adhesive properties in addition to hydrophilic properties.
  • the non-slip surface can also have the property of absorbing moisture or sweat easily on the skin. This effect mainly results in situations in which conventional devices slip begin to improved grip and thus comfort the wearer.
  • the elastomeric polymer may be, for example, a natural rubber, a synthetic rubber such as, in particular, an isoprene-based rubber, a silicone rubber, a styrene-, butadiene- and isoprene-based elastomer, etc.
  • a synthetic rubber such as, in particular, an isoprene-based rubber, a silicone rubber, a styrene-, butadiene- and isoprene-based elastomer, etc.
  • thermoplastic ones Elastomers for this application in question such as styrene block copolymers or polyurethane elastomers, especially in combination with multi-component injection molding.
  • the elastomeric material is slightly open-pored to increase the adhesive properties.
  • This open porosity can, for example, also be achieved by the fact that the elastomeric material is at least partially foamed.
  • adhesive silicone materials which have a particularly good skin and body compatibility.
  • adhesive silicone materials also have self-adhesive properties on the skin, which is advantageous in the context of the present invention.
  • a further class of materials is also known from the field of medical technology, with the aid of which a hearing aid housing according to the invention can be realized, or a hearing aid housing can be placed in a positionally reliable manner according to the invention.
  • These are hydrogels, as they are in Medical technology has long been used for eg self-adhesive ECG electrodes. Thanks to the hydrogels, these electrodes can be stuck to the skin for several hours to days.
  • Hydrogels are partially crosslinked plastically deformable and hydrophilic polymers or copolymers which further contain surface-wetting or surface-moisturizing additives and which have the ability to absorb water or to bind water, but without themselves being water-soluble. Due to the good wetting properties, hydrogels have good self-adhesive properties and are thus suitable, for example, applied to a hearing aid housing to place this positionally secure behind the ear, for example.
  • a hearing aid other other at least partially elastomeric polymers are conceivable, which are medically safe, have good skin compatibility and have self-adhesive properties.
  • the non-slip areas can either be colored or kept in the same color as the device.
  • the hearing aid housing it is possible to form a part of the hearing aid housing with the proposed elastomeric material, for example by means of a so-called 2K injection method.
  • the proposed elastomeric material for the manufacture of the entire housing.
  • a coating on an already existing, conventional hearing device housing or a hearing aid shell can either by using a coating technique or by sticking so-called adhesive pads on both sides.
  • adhesive pads can either be firmly applied to the hearing aid shell or removable again, which has the advantage that after a certain gestation these adhesive pads can be replaced.
  • Such adhesive pads may be constructed, for example, from the hydrogels mentioned above.
  • conventional adhesives such as acrylates, as known from double-sided adhesive tapes, can also be used.
  • parts of the housing shell may be formed as adhesive chips, which are exchangeable or attachable to the housing.
  • the work-enhancing surface by means of a pull-on, elastic, stocking-like hose which can be pulled over a conventionally produced hearing aid housing.
  • a pull-on, elastic, stocking-like hose which can be pulled over a conventionally produced hearing aid housing.
  • By forming appropriate holes in the hose existing controls on the housing can still be operated.
  • the stocking-like, elastic tube it is possible, for example, to provide corresponding guides or grooves or nubs already in the hearing device housing, so that the hose can be arranged positionally secure on the hearing aid.
  • the hearing aid proposed according to the invention directly, for example by simultaneously spraying two materials during the manufacture of the housing, wherein one material is the at least partially elastomeric polymer proposed according to the invention. It goes without saying that at least those surface parts are to be equipped with this material, which rests when wearing the hearing aid on the skin or the game behind the ear on the body.
  • Another manufacturing method is that initially in the hearing aid housing on the housing recessed areas, in the sense of a form, for example, are provided, in which then the self-adhesive pads from the elastomeric material, for example, can be glued.
  • the great advantage of the proposed position or non-slip hearing aids according to the invention is, in particular, that even such active hearing aids can easily support such hearing aids in all situations of life, which certainly can also contribute to strengthening the personality.
  • today worn hearing aids and in particular those which have very small housing and a small hook it is disadvantageous that these devices often have to be stored in active operations of people.
  • the present invention is not limited to hearing aids, but may also apply to other miniature devices such as headsets.
  • Communication devices, etc. which are worn, for example, in the ear area and which can hardly find support because of their very small dimensions.
  • Fig. 1 shows schematically seen from the side of a hearing aid 1, comprising, for example, an operating element 3, and arranged on the hearing aid, so-called hook 5 for connecting the hearing aid via a connecting tube to the otoplastic (not shown).
  • a non-slip portion 11 is formed, for example. Consisting of a hydrophilic elastomeric polymer, such as. Synthetic rubber, silicone rubber, styrene-butadiene-styrene elastomer or of another thermoplastic elastomer.
  • this section 11 can already be created during the production of the hearing aid housing by means of so-called two-component injection molding technology in that the two polymers used for the hearing device housing production are simultaneously injected into a tool.
  • Fig. 2 shows in perspective from behind a further embodiment of an inventive hearing aid 1 with microphone cover, in which now non-slip trained surface parts 13 are created by sticking corresponding self-adhesive pads.
  • pads can be glued both firmly on the housing, as well as removable again, which has the advantage that after a certain gestation these pads can be replaced.
  • hearing aids are quite expensive, it certainly makes sense if these pads, which can be contaminated by the Aufoder concern on the skin by sweat, from time to time replaced or cleaned.
  • self-adhesive hydrogel pads for sticking the hearing aids on the skin of, for example, infants, it is advantageous that these pads can be changed daily, on the one hand for reasons of hygiene, on the other hand, but also to guarantee a constant fit of the hearing aid.
  • Double-sided adhesive tapes generally have acrylate adhesive, it being understood that any other physiologically acceptable adhesive useful for such adhesive tapes may be used.
  • double-sided adhesive tapes are particularly suitable for the use of conventional hearing aid housings which do not have any surface areas or locations specially provided for the application of adhesive pads.
  • a stocking-like tube 21 has been raised to form the non-slip surface.
  • this tube 21 In order for this tube 21 to be held in a positionally accurate manner on the housing 1, it is advantageous to provide corresponding guides or depressions 23 which, for example, can already be provided when spraying the housing.
  • the tube 21 proposed in Fig. 3 can be easily replaced.
  • Suitable materials for the production of the inventively proposed slip-trained hose are preferably hydrophilic elastomeric materials, for example. Based on silicone rubber. However, elastomeric copolyamide materials and the like can certainly be used for the production of the inventive non-slip hose. It is also conceivable to produce the tube in different colors. Thus, the non-slip areas can either be colored or kept in the same color as the device.
  • FIG. 4 serves as an illustration of how corresponding locations can already be provided on a conventional hearing device housing on which the non-slip and self-adhesive polymer can be arranged.
  • a region, or a form, 31 is provided on the hearing aid housing 1, which is slightly recessed, so that subsequently a self-adhesive Elastomerpad, such as consisting of silicone rubber or a hydrogel pad can be inserted.
  • the hearing aid housings and materials mentioned with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4 are only examples for a better explanation of the present invention.
  • the hearing aid shell at any point non-slip and possibly self-adhesive form, and it is certainly advantageous to make this at those points which bear when wearing the hearing aid on or on the skin.
  • the mentioned or proposed materials are only examples and x-any elastomeric polymer materials can be used which on the one hand have a certain hydrophilicity, a certain self-adhesive effect and of course which are skin-friendly, or medically safe.
  • these materials may also be slightly porous or may even be slightly foamed polymers.
  • the present invention is by no means limited to hearing aid housing, but also applies to all sorts of things differently designed micro devices, in particular in the field of electronics, which are worn on any part of the body, in particular the ear.
  • These may be, for example, headsets, communication devices, transmission modules, etc., which due to their smallest dimensioning adhere poorly to the body, and thus there is a risk of dropping out.

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EP05023815A 2005-08-24 2005-11-02 Boîtier d'équipement placé derrière l'oreille avec propriétés autoadhésives Ceased EP1624720A3 (fr)

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