HEARING AID CONFIGURATION WITH A LANYARD WITH INTEGRATED ANTENNA AND ASSOCIATED METHOD FOR WIRELESS TRANSMISSION OF DATA
First Claim
1. A hearing aid configuration for wireless transmission of data, comprising:
- a hearing aid;
an external unit exchanging the data with said hearing aid;
a lanyard on which said external unit is able to be worn around a neck of a hearing aid wearer;
an electric series circuit;
at least one second antenna disposed in said lanyard; and
at least one third antenna disposed in said lanyard and is connected by said electric series circuit to said second antenna.
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Abstract
A hearing aid configuration and an associated method provide wireless transmission of data between a hearing aid and an external unit. The external unit, for example a programming device, is worn with a lanyard around the neck of a hearing aid user. The configuration additionally contains at least one second antenna disposed in the lanyard and at least one third antenna arranged in the lanyard which is connected by an electric series circuit to the second antenna. The advantage of this is that the lanyard can be made long enough to be comfortable to wear and a sufficiently high receive signal of the wireless data transmission is still guaranteed in the external unit.
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14 Claims
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1. A hearing aid configuration for wireless transmission of data, comprising:
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a hearing aid; an external unit exchanging the data with said hearing aid; a lanyard on which said external unit is able to be worn around a neck of a hearing aid wearer; an electric series circuit; at least one second antenna disposed in said lanyard; and at least one third antenna disposed in said lanyard and is connected by said electric series circuit to said second antenna. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for wireless transmission of data between a hearing aid and an external unit, which comprises the steps of:
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emitting of the data by at least one first antenna disposed in the hearing aid; accepting the data emitted by the first antenna by at least one second antenna; emitting the data accepted by the second antenna by at least one third antenna electrically connected to the second antenna; and accepting the data emitted by the first antenna and the third antenna by at least one fourth antenna disposed in the external unit. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14)
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