Hearing aid whose components are mounted in a hearing aid housing

• US 4,854,415 A
• Filed: 03/03/1988
• Issued: 08/08/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Goschke, Bernd
• Primary Examiner(s): Fuller, B. R.
• Application Number:
  US07/163,554
• Time in Patent Office: 523 Days
• Field of Search: 181/130, 181/135, 381/68.6, 381/69, 381/69.2, 381/169, 381/187, 381/188, 381/205
• US Class Current: 181/130
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 25/60 Mounting or interconnection of hearing aid parts, e.g. inside tips, housings or to ossicles ear wax retarders, e.g. mounting thereof H04R25/654
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 25/604 of acoustic or vibrational transducers
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 25/607 of earhooks

Abstract

The component parts of a hearing aid are releasably inserted into the inside of mounts to be secured in the interior of the hearing aid housing. The mounts are provided at their inside with an elastic material that is preferably fashioned as a plurality of nubs and that exerts an elastic spring power onto the inserted component parts. The mounts can hold component parts of different sizes and are also sound-absorbing.

Claims

1. A hearing aid and said inwardly projecting sound absorbing material serving to accomodate various sized component parts in a hearing aid housing, comprising at least one part of the component parts being releasably held in an interior portion of the mounts, said mounts being fashioned as box-shaped, each having five rigid interconnecting walls and a remaining, uncovered side serving as an opening for an insertion of the component parts, an inside of each wall of said mounts having an inwardly projecting pillow of elastic, sound absorbing material that is rigidly connected to the mounts constituted by component parts held by mounts.

2. A hearing aid according to claim 1, wherein the pillows comprise a plurality of nubs.

3. A hearing aid according to claim 1, wherein the pillows are formed of butyl material.

4. A hearing aid according to claim 1, wherein each wall is provided with a plurality of elastic nubs comprising said pillows.

5. A hearing aid according to claim 1, wherein the component parts have contact terminals and are positioned such in the box-shaped mounts that said contact terminals are directed toward the uncovered side and at least one wall encompasses a sound opening.

6. A hearing aid according to claim 1, wherein at least one mount contains an ear phone.

7. A hearing aid according to claim 1, wherein at least one mount contains a microphone.