US2454494A - Bone conduction receiver - Google Patents

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US2454494A
US2454494A US672672A US67267246A US2454494A US 2454494 A US2454494 A US 2454494A US 672672 A US672672 A US 672672A US 67267246 A US67267246 A US 67267246A US 2454494 A US2454494 A US 2454494A
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Leland A Watson
Paul C Heijn
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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
    • H04R11/00—Transducers of moving-armature or moving-core type

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  • Our invention relates to bone conduction receivers of the type utilized in the audiometric testing of hearing to determine air and bone conduction acuity and their relationship.
  • Our invention has for its object the provision of a device wherein the pressure of the bone conduction contact piece of the bone conduction receiver against the bones of the skull or mastoid process is capable of being maintained constant, irrespective of the degree of force exerted by the holder of the bone conduction receiver unit against the head.
  • Another object of our invention is to provide a bone conduction receiver in which the recordable pressure of the bone conduction contact piece against the bones of the skull or mastoid process may be adjusted within desired limits.
  • Fig. 1 is a top plan View of a housing enclosing our novel bone conduction receiver unit
  • Fig. 2 is a front elevational view
  • Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken on the line 33 of Fig. 2;
  • Fig. 4 is a vertical axial section taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2;
  • Fig. 5 is a fragmentary perspective view
  • Fig. 6 is a fragmentary perspective view.
  • the numeral I indicated a cup-like housing or casing, preferably made of plastic or other electrical insulating material.
  • the open end of housing 5 is normally closed by a cap or cover 2 and cooperating circumferentially-spaced screws or the like 3.
  • Cap 2 is formed, preferably integrally, with an outwardly-projecting sleeve or hub 4 having an opening 5 into which is fitted a guide block 6, preferably of soft rubber or other resilient material.
  • Guide block 6 has an opening I therethrough, which is concentric with the opening 5 through the hub 4.
  • a plunger 8 Slidably mounted in the opening I of the guide block 6 is a plunger 8 shown as having enlarged inner and outer ends 9 and Ill, respectively.
  • a conduction contact button or element l2 Secured to the outer end it] of plunger 8, by screw-threaded engagement therewith, is a conduction contact button or element l2 which slides in a recess 53 provided by a sleeve-like extension Hi of guide block 6, and normally projects outwardly beyond the end of hub 4.
  • a bracket !5 having a downturned end 16 to which is secured, by means of screws or the like H, a conventional magnetic reproducer identified in its entirety by the numeral [8, and including a permanent magnet is, a pair of opposed spaced brackets 26 secured to the permanent magnet by means of a threaded stud 2i and providing a magnetic extension thereof, a pair of electromagnetic coils 22, a non-magnetic spacer 23, between the ends of the brackets 29, a vibratory tongue 24, one end of which is secured to the intermediate portion of the spacer 23 by means of a screw 25, and an armature 26, secured to the intermediate portion of the tongue 24 and adapted to move between the electro-magnetic coils 22 responsive to electi e-magnetic pulls within the unit [8.
  • a link in the form of a pin 27 is rigidly secured at one end to the bracket l5, and adjacent its other end to the outwardly-projecting end of armature 25 as indicated" at 23.
  • an elongated insulating member in the form of a plate 39, preferably and as shown, being cut from sheet material.
  • a pair of outwardly-projecting pins 32 Secured to laterally-projecting ears 3! of plate 30 are a pair of outwardly-projecting pins 32, which, together with the lower end 33 of threaded stud 2!, provide a plurality of guide pins.
  • Guide pins 32 and 33 extend through openings 34 in a thrust plate '35, which exerts a yielding pressure on the plate 36 and the magnetic reproducer I8, through coil compression springs 36 mounted on the pins 32 and 33 between the plates 30 and 35.
  • a suitably insulated conducting wire or cable 43 leads from the coils 22 to a source of electric current and recording devices, not shown, through a plug or the like 44.
  • the spring elements 36 working against the thrust plate 35, the plate 38, magnetic reproducer l8, bracket it, plunger element 3, and contact button E2 are all biased in an outward direction so that the button I2 projects beyond the end of the sleeve
  • the spring elements 36 may be placed under a desired degree of compression so as to cause them to exert a predetermined outward pressure upon the plunger 52 and contact button l2, by manipulation of the knob 40.
  • the sleeve 4 is then brought into contact with the skull or mastoid process, indicated by broken liner! in Fig.
  • the contact button I2 is inwardly pressed, against the action of the compression spring 36, to a point where it is sub stantially on the same plane as'the outer cnd of the tubular hub or sleeve 4. It should be obvious that irrespective of the pressure exerted through the housing I and sleeve 4 to the skull, that the pressure exerted by the contact button l2 against the skull will remain uniform at the predetermined pressure set by the knob at. As the pressure is increased, by compressing springs 36, the greater the inward thrust by link 2! against armature 26, and consequently the greater the dampening effect upon the vibratory movements of the same.
  • An audiometric device for determining bone conduction acuity comprising a casing having a head-engaging portion, a plunger mounted for limited reciprocating movements in said headengag-ing portion and normally projecting outwardly therefrom, a magnetic reproducer having a vibratory element mounted for reciprocation within said casing, means rigidly connecting the plunger to the vibratory element on the reproducer, a thrust plate in said casing, yielding biasing means interposed between the thrust late and the magnetic reproducer, and means for imparting movements to the thrust plate whereby to vary the pressure exerted by the yielding biasing means against the reproducer and plunger, said last-mentioned means terminating in a manually operatable knob exterior of the casing and remote from said plunger.
  • An audiometric device for determining bone conduction. acuity comprising an open-ended casing, a cap normally closing the open end of said casing, a sleeve projecting outwardly approximately at right angles to said cap, a magnetic reproducer unit having a vibratory element mounted for limited axial reciprocal movements within said housing, an annular resilient grommet in said sleeve, said grommet having an enlarged axial opening at its outer end and a restricted axial opening connecting its inner end with said enlarged opening, a magnetic reproducer unit having a vibratory element within said casing, a plunger mounted for reciprocal movements in the restricted passage in said grommet and having its inner end rigidly connected to said vibratory element, a contact button on the outer end of said plunger within the enlarged open end of said grommet and normally projecting axially outwardly of said sleeve, a thrust plate within said casing, yielding biasing means interposed between said thrust plate and said magnetic reproducer, and means terminating in a knob exterior of

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US2581806A (en) * 1948-03-05 1952-01-08 Robert C Mcshirley Power supply means for percussor apparatus

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GB337094A (en) * 1930-01-29 1930-10-30 Waldemar Lazare Colassi Improvements in, or relating to, electrical sound reproducing apparatus
US2077425A (en) * 1932-12-24 1937-04-20 Lieber Patents Corp Bone conduction hearing-aid
US2405433A (en) * 1941-12-31 1946-08-06 Dictograph Products Co Inc Bone conduction audiphone

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GB337094A (en) * 1930-01-29 1930-10-30 Waldemar Lazare Colassi Improvements in, or relating to, electrical sound reproducing apparatus
US2077425A (en) * 1932-12-24 1937-04-20 Lieber Patents Corp Bone conduction hearing-aid
US2405433A (en) * 1941-12-31 1946-08-06 Dictograph Products Co Inc Bone conduction audiphone

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2581806A (en) * 1948-03-05 1952-01-08 Robert C Mcshirley Power supply means for percussor apparatus

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