Protection element for all-in-the-ear hearing aid

• US 4,984,277 A
• Filed: 10/11/1988
• Issued: 01/08/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: GN Danovox A/S
• Original Assignee: GN Danovox A/S
• Inventors: Bisgaard, Peter N., Ooms, Simon
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Assistant Examiner(s): McGeary, M. Nelson
• Application Number:
  US07/255,717
• Time in Patent Office: 819 Days
• Field of Search: 381/68, 381/68.6, 381/69, 381/69.1, 381/69.2, 181/129, 181/130, 181/135, 206/533, 206/532, 206/531, 29/235, 29/236, 81/3.4, 81/120, 81/488
• US Class Current: 381/325
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2460/17 Hearing device specific tools used for storing or handling hearing devices or parts thereof, e.g. placement in the ear, replacement of cerumen barriers, repair, cleaning hearing devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 25/654 Ear wax retarders

Abstract

A protection element for the sound conduction channel (6) on an all-in-the-ear hearing aid (1) with a hearing aid housing (2) arranged to suit the user'"'"'s auditory canal comprises an exchangeable filter elenment (3) which is snapped firmly on a sound conduction tube (5) which is disposed and secured in the hearing aid'"'"'s sound conduction channel (6). The filter element (3) has a number of sound conduction openings (12). The invention also relates to a tool and a dispenser for use in the exchanging of the filter element (3).

Claims

1. Protection element for the sound conduction channel on an all-in-the-ear hearing aid with a hearing aid housing arranged to suit the user'"'"'s auditory canal and comprising an exchangeable filter element which prevents dirt, earwax and the like from penetrating the hearing aid'"'"'s sound conduction opening, and where a sound conduction tube is provided inside the sound conduction opening, and has a free end with an annular flange for the snapping-on of the filter element which is provided with an annular collar arranged to engage with the sound conduction tube'"'"'s flange, and the said filter element having at least one sharp area arranged for the removal of the filter element, and wherein the filter element comprises an annular, cylindrical part in a substantially circular masking part and a number of bridge parts between said parts, all of which are configured as a one-piece unit, and in such a way as to form a number of sound openings which extend substantially at right angles to the axial direction of the sound conduction rube when the filter element is mounted on the tube.

2. Protection element according to claim 1 wherein the filter element is dish-shaped or in the form of a cap, including an inwardly projecting flange at its peripheral edge and wherein said sound conducting tube'"'"'s free end includes a radially projecting flange.