HEARING INSTRUMENT AND ASSOCIATED BINAURAL HEARING SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20240357300A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-24

    申请号:US18644388

    申请日:2024-04-24

    IPC分类号: H04R25/00

    摘要: A hearing instrument has a housing which is wearable in an ear and which includes a concha portion and a thin canal portion protruding from the concha portion. The canal portion has a twice-curved shape to fit to the anatomy of the auditory canal. A damping body is inserted in the canal portion which is made of an elastic material to mount a receiver in vibration-damping fashion. The damping body has a pocket for accommodating the receiver and an adjoining sound tube. The sound tube is angled at a first angle with respect to a longitudinal axis of the pocket, thereby forming a bend in the damping body, and its end distant from the pocket terminates in a support plate which rests on a shoulder of the canal portion. The support plate is angled obliquely with respect to an axis of the sound tube.

    COUPLER FOR BONE CONDUCTION HEARING PROSTHESIS

    公开(公告)号:US20240357298A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-24

    申请号:US18290971

    申请日:2022-08-08

    申请人: Cochlear Limited

    IPC分类号: H04R25/00

    CPC分类号: H04R25/606 H04R2460/13

    摘要: An apparatus includes a coupling portion configured to be releasably coupled to an abutment affixed to a recipient's body. The coupling portion includes a substantially cylindrically symmetric body portion extending along a symmetry axis, the body portion including an outer body surface having a recess extending around the symmetry axis. The coupling portion further includes a resilient member in the recess and extending around the symmetry axis. The resilient member extends outwardly past the outer body surface and is configured to contact an inner abutment surface of the abutment. The resilient member is configured to undergo compression by the inner abutment surface and an inner surface of the recess upon being releasably coupled to the abutment. The compression has a component substantially perpendicular to the symmetry axis.

    Hearing device comprising a feedback control system

    公开(公告)号:US12114133B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-08

    申请号:US17968186

    申请日:2022-10-18

    申请人: Oticon A/S

    IPC分类号: H04R25/00

    摘要: A hearing aid adapted for being worn by a user at or in an ear of the user comprises a) at least one input transducer for converting sound in an environment around the user to at least one electric input signal representing said sound; b) an output transducer for converting a processed output signal provided in dependence of said at least one electric input signal to stimuli perceivable to the user as sound; c) a feedback control system comprising an adaptive filer, the feedback control system being configured to provide an adaptively determined estimate (h*(n)) of a current feedback path (h(n)) from said output transducer to said at least one input transducer in dependence of c1) said at least one electric input signal, c2) said processed output signal, and c3) an adaptive algorithm. The hearing aid further comprises d) a database comprising a multitude (M) of previously determined candidate feedback paths (hm); and e) a controller configured to identify a change in the current feedback path (h(n)) based on the adaptively determined estimate (h*(n)) of the current feedback path and at least one of said multitude of previously determined candidate feedback paths (hm). A method of operating a hearing aid is further disclosed. The invention may e.g. be used in hearing aids, e.g. binaural hearing aid systems or headsets, or speakerphones, or combinations thereof.

    Ear-worn electronic system employing cooperative operation between in-ear device and at-ear device

    公开(公告)号:US12114132B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-08

    申请号:US17771343

    申请日:2020-09-30

    IPC分类号: H04R25/00 H04R1/10

    摘要: An ear-worn electronic system comprise a plurality of discrete devices configured for deployment at one ear of a wearer. The system comprises a first device configured for placement at least partially within an ear canal of the wearer. The first device comprises at least a first processor, one or more first microphones, a first speaker, a first rechargeable battery, and first charging circuitry. The system comprises a second device configured for placement at the wearer's ear proximal of the first device in an outer ear direction. The second device comprises at least a second processor, a second rechargeable battery, and second charging circuitry. The first device is configured to operate autonomously when operating in an independent mode relative to the second device. The first and second devices are configured to operate cooperatively when operating in a communicatively coupled mode.