EP2007171A2 - Unité de fermeture avec support de composants pour un dispositif auditif - Google Patents

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EP2007171A2
EP2007171A2 EP08104390A EP08104390A EP2007171A2 EP 2007171 A2 EP2007171 A2 EP 2007171A2 EP 08104390 A EP08104390 A EP 08104390A EP 08104390 A EP08104390 A EP 08104390A EP 2007171 A2 EP2007171 A2 EP 2007171A2
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Erika Radick
Peter Nikles
Benjamin Schmidt
Christian Schmitt
Erwin Singer
Cornelia Wiedenbrüg
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Sivantos Pte Ltd
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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
    • H04R25/602—Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles of batteries
    • 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
    • H04R2225/00—Details of deaf aids covered by H04R25/00, not provided for in any of its subgroups
    • H04R2225/025—In the ear hearing aids [ITE] hearing aids

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  • the present invention relates to a closure unit for closing a portable in the ear canal shell of a hearing with a plate having a battery opening for performing a battery, wherein in or on the battery opening battery contacts are arranged, to which at least one signal processing component is connected.
  • a hearing device is understood here to be a device that can be worn on the ear, in particular a hearing device, a headset, headphones and the like.
  • Hearing aids are portable hearing aids that are used to care for the hearing impaired.
  • different types of hearing aids such as behind-the-ear hearing aids (BTE) and in-the-ear hearing aids (ITO), e.g. Concha hearing aids or canal hearing aids (ITE, CIC).
  • BTE behind-the-ear hearing aids
  • ITO in-the-ear hearing aids
  • ITE Canal hearing aids
  • the hearing aids listed by way of example are worn on the outer ear or in the ear canal.
  • bone conduction hearing aids, implantable or vibrotactile hearing aids are also available on the market. The stimulation of the damaged hearing takes place either mechanically or electrically.
  • Hearing aids have in principle as essential components an input transducer, an amplifier and an output transducer.
  • the input transducer is usually a sound receiver, z. As a microphone, and / or an electromagnetic receiver, for. B. an induction coil.
  • the output transducer is usually used as an electroacoustic transducer, z. As miniature speaker, or as an electromechanical transducer, z. B. bone conduction, realized.
  • the amplifier is usually integrated in a signal processing unit. This principal Construction is in FIG. 1 shown using the example of a behind-the-ear hearing aid. In a hearing aid housing 1 for carrying behind the ear, one or more microphones 2 for receiving the sound from the environment are installed.
  • a signal processing unit 3 which is also integrated in the hearing aid housing 1, processes the microphone signals and amplifies them.
  • the output signal of the signal processing unit 3 is transmitted to a loudspeaker or earpiece 4, which outputs an acoustic signal.
  • the sound is optionally transmitted via a sound tube, which is fixed with an earmold in the ear canal, to the eardrum of the device carrier.
  • the power supply of the hearing device and in particular of the signal processing unit 3 is carried out by a likewise integrated into the hearing aid housing 1 battery. 5
  • An ITE hearing aid or a CIC hearing aid usually consists of a shell and a so-called "face plate" with which the shell is closed and thus represents a closure unit.
  • the hearing aid shell or the shell of the hearing device is inserted into the auditory canal of the user and therefore has to be shaped individually. For this reason, the shell is mostly made in the country where the user lives.
  • the face plate on the other hand, can be regarded as a standard element in its raw form (zero-face plate). Therefore, it is usually produced at a production location for all countries together. This often brings cost, logistics and quality benefits.
  • the zero-face plate is provided during production with those standard components that must be practically always present for the respective series.
  • battery and programming contacts are already inserted or injected into the face plate.
  • a hybrid circuit to which various electronic components are soldered already cold welded at the production of the face plates to the battery and / or programming contacts.
  • the Hybrid circuit together with at least one microphone positioned in free-milled openings at typical locations of the face plates.
  • the signal processing components that have already been soldered or welded to the zero-face plate may not be in the milling area.
  • the amplifier circuit and the volume control are attached to the zero-face plate and the individualization of the face plates, d. H. the milling of the positioning holes is done manually.
  • a hearing aid worn in the ear has a face plate on which a socket is releasably secured in a battery opening.
  • an electronic module At the base is an electronic module.
  • the socket In order to remove electronic components from the hearing aid, the socket is removed from the battery opening.
  • an in-the-ear hearing aid with electronic module described The electronics module is inserted in a housing shell and the electronic components of the electronics module are attached to a flexible skeleton.
  • the object of the present invention is thus to further automate the production of hearing devices with trays which are portable in the auditory canal.
  • those signal processing components which are already fixed at the production site of the zero-face plates but not yet finally positioned can be held in a defined position by the carrier.
  • the zero-face plate can now be customized, for example, by special positioning holes.
  • these positioning holes determine the location of the microphones or controls that the user desires.
  • these holes are milled in the Null-face plate. As a result, a high and consistent quality can be achieved.
  • Another advantage of the carrier according to the invention in the closure unit or the face plate is that the signal processing components are protected by the carrier during transport.
  • the biggest advantage, however, is that during the milling process, the signal processing components and lines housed in the carrier are not damaged because they are in the area of the battery opening, in which no positioning holes are already milled.
  • the carrier is snapped into the battery opening.
  • the mechanical load of Battery opening through the carrier is completely unproblematic.
  • the closure unit can also have a fastening element for fastening a battery-opening cover, so that the support can alternatively be fastened to the fastening element.
  • the carrier is attached to at least one of the battery contacts. If, in addition, one or more programming contacts are provided in / on the closure unit, then the carrier can also be attached to these programming contacts. In principle, all parts of the closure unit in / at the battery opening can thus be used to releasably fix the carrier.
  • a hybrid circuit can be maintained.
  • one or more microphones can also be held in a desired position by it.
  • the carrier may be fitted into the battery opening and have substantially its lateral dimensions.
  • the carrier is inserted directly into the battery port, so that their entire internal volume can be used for component protection.
  • FIG. 2 is a so-called zero-face plate 10 shown from the side. It is not yet dimensioned in its final dimensions and still has no positioning holes for microphones, controls and the like. It has only in the middle of a so-called dome, which is just for IdO hearing aids or CIC hearing aids to gain space. Namely, under the dome 11, the hearing aid battery is located in the finished assembled state of the hearing aid. In the dome 11, a battery opening 12 is provided, through which a battery can be inserted or removed in the hearing aid.
  • a carrier 13 made of metal or plastic is inserted. He has viewed from the side in approximately a rectangular shape, the top is like the dome 11 is curved. This also increases the internal volume of the wearer.
  • the carrier 13 can also be held detachably in or on the battery opening 12 on battery contacts or programming contacts.
  • the carrier 13 can be fixed in / at the battery opening 12 by any technique such as latching, insertion, screws and the like.
  • FIG. 3 In FIG. 3 is the zero-face plate 10 shown in plan view. In the middle is the rectangular battery opening 12, in which the carrier 13 is inserted accurately. This means that the carrier 13 in plan view has the same shape here as the battery opening 12.
  • the carrier 13 has three compartments here.
  • a compartment accommodates an amplifier circuit 14, typically a hybrid circuit.
  • two microphones 15 are used.
  • the microphones 15 are soldered to the amplifier circuit 14 with electrical leads, not shown.
  • the corresponding lines are also accommodated in the carrier 13.
  • the amplifier circuit 14 in turn is cold-welded via corresponding lines to battery contacts, which are also not shown in the figures and are located directly on the battery opening at the bottom of the face plates 10.
  • the carrier 13 thus serves not only for the signal processing components 14 and 15 but also for their lines as a transport bracket.
  • the production of the zero-face plates 10 is carried out as follows at a central production site: First, all electronic components, if provided, are soldered to the amplifier circuit 14 and the hybrids and cold welded to the battery and programming contacts. Subsequently or previously, the special carrier 13 is inserted into the battery opening and the signal processing components, here the amplifier circuit 14 and the microphones 15 latched into the carrier 13, plugged or otherwise fixed. The zero-face plate is now ready for transport and further processing.

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  • General Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
  • Neurosurgery (AREA)
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EP08104390.3A 2007-06-20 2008-06-12 Unité de fermeture avec support de composants pour un dispositif auditif Not-in-force EP2007171B1 (fr)

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EP1246507A1 (fr) 2001-03-26 2002-10-02 Widex A/S Prothèse auditive avec anneau d' étanchéité
DE102005040542B3 (de) 2005-08-26 2007-04-12 Siemens Audiologische Technik Gmbh In-dem-Ohr-Hörgerät mit Elektronikmodul

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EP1246507A1 (fr) 2001-03-26 2002-10-02 Widex A/S Prothèse auditive avec anneau d' étanchéité
DE102005040542B3 (de) 2005-08-26 2007-04-12 Siemens Audiologische Technik Gmbh In-dem-Ohr-Hörgerät mit Elektronikmodul

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US20080317271A1 (en) 2008-12-25
DE102007028232A1 (de) 2009-01-02

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