Receiver device with manipulable sound outlet direction

• US 8,098,866 B2
• Filed: 07/31/2008
• Issued: 01/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Siemens Medical Instruments Pte Ltd (WS Audiology A/S)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Medical Instruments Pte Ltd (WS Audiology A/S)
• Inventors: Gommel, Uli, Ritter, Hartmut
• Primary Examiner(s): Huynh, Andy
• Application Number:
  US12/221,433
• Publication Number:
  US 20090034770A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,265 Days
• Field of Search: 381/313, 381/324, 381/325, 381/329, 381/328, 381/330
• US Class Current: 381/330
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1016 Earpieces of the intra-aural type
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 25/402 using contructional means
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 25/652 Ear tips; Ear moulds hybrid ear moulds or post-processing thereof for their customisation H04R25/659
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 25/656 Non-customized, universal ear tips, i.e. ear tips which are not specifically adapted to the size or shape of the ear or ear canal

Abstract

Provided is a receiver device with an earpiece for securing the receiver device in an auditory canal. The receiver device further comprises a receiver with a sound outlet direction and an adapter for affixing the receiver in the earpiece, with a sound from the receiver being conducted through the adapter. The adapter diverts the sound from the sound outlet direction in a divergent direction.

Claims

1. A receiver device for a hearing apparatus comprising:

an earpiece that secures the receiver device in an auditory canal;

a receiver having a sound outlet direction; and

an adapter that affixes the receiver in the earpiece, a sound from the receiver being conducted through the adapter, the adapter diverts the sound from the sound outlet direction in a divergent direction,

wherein the adapter is formed in a bellow shape,

wherein the adapter includes a spherical directing element with an end-to-end opening that allows sound to pass through,

wherein the spherical directing element is mounted rotatably in the adapter,

wherein the spherical directing element includes an end-to-end opening forming a sound outlet opening of the earpiece, and

wherein the spherical directing element diverts the sound from the sound outlet direction in the divergent direction.

2. The receiver device as claimed in claim 1, wherein a cerumen protection element is integrated in the adapter.

3. A receiver device for a hearing apparatus, comprising:

an earpiece that secures the receiver device in an auditory canal;

a receiver having a sound outlet direction; and

an adapter that affixes the receiver in the earpiece, a sound from the receiver being conducted through the adapter, the adapter diverts the sound from the sound outlet direction in a divergent direction,

wherein a spherical directing element with an end-to-end opening that allows sound to pass through,

wherein the spherical directing element is mounted rotatably in the adapter,

wherein the end-to-end opening in the spherical directing element forms a sound outlet opening of the earpiece, and

wherein the spherical directing element diverts the sound from the sound outlet direction in the divergent direction.

4. The receiver device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the adapter is formed in a curve in order to divert the sound from the sound outlet direction in the divergent direction.

5. The receiver device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the curve is realized by a bellow shape.

6. The receiver device as claimed in claim 3, wherein a cerumen protection element is integrated in the spherical directing element.

7. A receiver device for a hearing apparatus, comprising:

an earpiece that secures the receiver device in an auditory canal;

a receiver having a sound outlet direction; and

an adapter that affixes the receiver in the earpiece, a sound from the receiver being conducted through the adapter, the adapter formed in a curve in order to divert the sound from the sound outlet direction in the divergent direction,

wherein the curve is facilitated by a spherical directing element,

wherein the spherical directing element has an end-to-end opening that allows sound to pass through,

wherein the spherical directing element is mounted rotatably in the adapter,

wherein the end-to-end opening in the spherical directing element forms a sound outlet opening of the earpiece, and

wherein the spherical directing element diverts the sound from the sound outlet direction in the divergent direction.