HEARING AID SYSTEM
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1. A hearing aid, comprising:
- a microphone sampling position located externally of an ear canal of a user;
a receiver, comprising a speaker, positionable in an open-ear configuration and suspended within the ear canal wherein sound from the microphone sampling position is amplified in accordance with hearing loss programming and passed via electrical connection around a portion of the external ear and through the ear canal opening to the speaker that is positioned within the ear canal in an open ear configuration and wherein such receiver has a lateral cross sectional area of about 0.0415 inches squared or below and is dimensioned so as to generate about eight decibels or below of insertion loss and about eight decibels or below of occlusion effect over human audible frequencies.
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Abstract
An exemplary hearing aid system includes a receiver unit configured and positioned within the user'"'"'s ear canal so as to minimize insertion loss and/or occlusion effect.
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1. A hearing aid, comprising:
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a microphone sampling position located externally of an ear canal of a user; a receiver, comprising a speaker, positionable in an open-ear configuration and suspended within the ear canal wherein sound from the microphone sampling position is amplified in accordance with hearing loss programming and passed via electrical connection around a portion of the external ear and through the ear canal opening to the speaker that is positioned within the ear canal in an open ear configuration and wherein such receiver has a lateral cross sectional area of about 0.0415 inches squared or below and is dimensioned so as to generate about eight decibels or below of insertion loss and about eight decibels or below of occlusion effect over human audible frequencies. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79)
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80. A hearing aid, comprising:
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a microphone sampling position located externally of an ear canal of a user; a receiver, comprising a speaker, positionable in an open-ear configuration and suspended within the ear canal by a ring of material having a plurality of supports, wherein sound from the microphone sampling position is amplified in accordance with hearing loss programming and passed via electrical connection around a portion of the external ear and through the ear canal opening to the speaker that is positioned within the ear canal in an open ear configuration and wherein such receiver has a lateral cross sectional area of about 0.0415 inches squared or below and is dimensioned so as to generate about eight decibels or below of insertion loss and about eight decibels or below of occlusion effect over human audible frequencies. - View Dependent Claims (81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89)
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