Hearing apparatus with adjusted components

• US 20090041278A1
• Filed: 08/07/2008
• Published: 02/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens Medical Instruments Pte Ltd (WS Audiology A/S)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Medical Instruments Pte Ltd (WS Audiology A/S)
• Inventors: Gebhardt, Volker
• Application Number:
  US12/221,939
• Publication Number:
  US 20090041278A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 25/604 of acoustic or vibrational transducers
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 25/65 Housing parts, e.g. shells, tips or moulds, or their manufacture

Abstract

To minimize an unusable free volume in a housing of a hearing apparatus, a hearing apparatus is proposed, which includes a housing, which has a predetermined form and at least one active, electronic component, which is arranged in the housing, with the component having a form, which is adjusted to the form of the housing and/or to the form of another component of the hearing apparatus. As a result, the unusable residual volume in the hearing apparatus can be minimized and a smaller form of the housing can in general thus be achieved.

Claims

1-6. -6. (canceled)

7. A hearing apparatus, comprising:

a housing which has a predetermined form; and

at least one active, electronic component, which is a receiver or a microphone and which is arranged in the housing, wherein the component has a form, which is adjusted to the form of the housing and to the form of another component of the hearing apparatus.

8. The hearing apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the component housing of the active, electronic component has a trapezoidal, triangular or oval cross-section.

9. The hearing apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the hearing apparatus is an in-the-ear hearing device, with the form of the active, electronic component being adjusted to a shell of the hearing device and the shell being adjusted to the anatomy of an auditory canal of a person wearing the hearing apparatus.

10. The hearing apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the hearing apparatus is an in-the-ear hearing device, with the form of the active, electronic component being adjusted to a shell of the hearing device and the shell being adjusted to the anatomy of an auditory canal of a person wearing the hearing apparatus.

11. The hearing apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the hearing apparatus is a behind-the-ear hearing device, with the form of the active, electronic component being adjusted to a space between a concha and the head of a person wearing the hearing apparatus.

12. The hearing apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the hearing apparatus is a behind-the-ear hearing device, with the form of the active, electronic component being adjusted to a space between a concha and the head of a person wearing the hearing apparatus.

13. The hearing apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the active, electronic component is arranged in direct vicinity to an induction coil and is adjusted to the induction coil such that it surrounds the induction coil at least in sections.

14. The hearing apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the active, electronic component is arranged in direct vicinity to an induction coil and is adjusted to the induction coil such that it surrounds the induction coil at least in sections.

15. The hearing apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein the active, electronic component is arranged in direct vicinity to an induction coil and is adjusted to the induction coil such that it surrounds the induction coil at least in sections.

16. The hearing apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein the active, electronic component is arranged in direct vicinity to an induction coil and is adjusted to the induction coil such that it surrounds the induction coil at least in sections.

17. The hearing apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the active, electronic component is arranged in direct vicinity to an induction coil and is adjusted to the induction coil such that it surrounds the induction coil at least in sections.

18. The hearing apparatus as claimed in claim 12, wherein the active, electronic component is arranged in direct vicinity to an induction coil and is adjusted to the induction coil such that it surrounds the induction coil at least in sections.

19. The hearing apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the form of the active electronic component is adjusted to the form of the housing of the hearing apparatus such that a rounded section of the component is formed at least in sections.

20. The hearing apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the form of the active electronic component is adjusted to the form of the housing of the hearing apparatus such that a rounded section of the component is formed at least in sections.

21. The hearing apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein the form of the active electronic component is adjusted to the form of the housing of the hearing apparatus such that a rounded section of the component is formed at least in sections.

22. The hearing apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein the form of the active electronic component is adjusted to the form of the housing of the hearing apparatus such that a rounded section of the component is formed at least in sections.

23. The hearing apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the form of the active electronic component is adjusted to the form of the housing of the hearing apparatus such that a rounded section of the component is formed at least in sections.

24. A hearing apparatus, comprising:

a housing which has a predetermined form; and

at least one active, electronic component, which is a receiver or a microphone and which is arranged in the housing, wherein the component has a form, which is adjusted to the form of the housing or to the form of another component of the hearing apparatus.

25. The hearing apparatus as claimed in claim 24, wherein the component housing of the active, electronic component has a trapezoidal, triangular or oval cross-section.

26. The hearing apparatus as claimed in claim 24, wherein the hearing apparatus is an in-the-ear hearing device, with the form of the active, electronic component being adjusted to a shell of the hearing device and the shell being adjusted to the anatomy of an auditory canal of a person wearing the hearing apparatus.