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Manufacturing methods and systems for rapid production of hearing-aid shells

  • US 7,050,876 B1
  • Filed: 10/06/2000
  • Issued: 05/23/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of manufacturing a hearing-aid shell, comprising the steps of:

  • nonuniformly thickening a three-dimensional digital model of a shell surface about a directed path thereon to define a thickened model; and

    generating an undersurface hearing-aid vent in the thickened model of the shell surface, at a location proximate the directed path.

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