Hearing device with mechanical adjustment of sound properties

• US 8,345,907 B2
• Filed: 12/09/2010
• Issued: 01/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sivantos Pte. Ltd. (WS Audiology A/S)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Medical Instruments Pte Ltd (WS Audiology A/S)
• Inventors: Gürtler, Silke, Kexel, Stefan, Seubert, Nadine, Giese, Ulrich
• Primary Examiner(s): Kuntz, Curtis
• Assistant Examiner(s): Etesam, Amir
• Application Number:
  US12/964,078
• Publication Number:
  US 20110135132A1
• Time in Patent Office: 754 Days
• Field of Search: 381/329, 381/328, 381/324, 381/322, 381/380, 381/381, 381/382, 381/64
• US Class Current: 381/328
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2225/023 Completely in the canal [CIC] hearing aids
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2225/025 In the ear hearing aids [ITE] hearing aids
• 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 25/652 Ear tips; Ear moulds hybrid ear moulds or post-processing thereof for their customisation H04R25/659

Abstract

A hearing device that is worn in the ear has a hearing aid and a support device with a runner. The support device remains stationarily inserted in the auditory canal, while the hearing aid is moveably connected to the runner and moveably arranged along the runner. This provides for a hearing device that allows a simple, intuitively understandable modification of the volume and/or sound properties.

Claims

1. A hearing device, comprising:

a hearing aid and a support device configured for insertion into an auditory canal and to be worn in the ear;

said support device having a runner and said hearing aid being moveably connected to said runner and moveably arranged along said runner while said hearing aid and said support device are inserted in the auditory canal, to thereby change a spacing distance between the hearing aid and the support device to mechanically change the audio properties of the hearing device.

2. The hearing device according to claim 1, which further comprises a rod connected to said hearing aid on a side distally from an eardrum, enabling the hearing aid to be moved relative to said support device by actuation from an entrance to the auditory canal of the ear.

3. The hearing device according to claim 1, wherein said runner is formed with a guide for said hearing aid.

4. The hearing device according to claim 3, wherein said guide and said hearing aid are configured to generate a frictional force opposing a movement of said hearing aid relative to said runner.