Hearing device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10070234-B2
Application number	US-201615381439-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 16, 2016
Priority date	Dec 18, 2015
Publication date	Sep 4, 2018
Grant date	Sep 4, 2018

Abstract

A hearing device comprising a first shell member and a second shell member constituting a housing when assembled is disclosed. The hearing device comprises a chassis provided with attachment structures for attachment of the first shell member and the second shell member to the chassis.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A hearing device comprising a first shell member and a second shell member constituting a housing when assembled, wherein the hearing device comprising a chassis provided with attachment structures for attachment of the first shell member and the second shell member to the chassis, and first and second substrates carrying electrical components which are supported by the chassis, the first shell member is a top shell member and the second shell member is a base shell member, wherein the first shell member and the second shell member surrounds the chassis when attached to the chassis, the chassis comprises a first portion comprising a plate member extending along a first axis and a second portion having a plate member extending along a second axis, and the first substrate and the second substrate are arranged parallel to the plate members of the first portion and the second portion respectively such that the plate member of the first portion substantially covers a bottom surface of the first substrate and the plate member of the second portion substantially covers a bottom surface of the second substrate, wherein the chassis is provided with attachment structures shaped as pinholes and wherein a corresponding number of pins configured to be engagingly inserted into the pinholes are arranged so as to releasably fixate the chassis to the first shell member and the second shell member.

2. The hearing device according to claim 1 , wherein the first shell member and the second shell member are assembled along a longitudinal axis of the chassis.

3. A hearing device according to claim 1 , wherein the chassis, the first shell member and the second shell member are provided with two or more sets of pinholes arranged to form through-going hole structures.

4. A hearing device according to claim 3 , wherein the chassis is provided with two or more pairs of pinholes, wherein each pair of pinholes comprising a first pinhole arranged next to a second pinhole and being configured to receive a pin extending through the first pinhole and the a second pinhole.

5. The hearing device according to claim 4 , wherein each of the one or more pins is a separate rod-shaped one-piece body.

6. The hearing device according to claim 1 , wherein the hearing device comprises two, three or four pins.

7. The hearing device according to claim 1 , wherein the angle between the first axis and the second axis is a non-zero angle.

8. The hearing device according to claim 1 , wherein the chassis comprises a support for a terminal wall.

9. The hearing device according to claim 1 , wherein the chassis comprises a support for a push button.

10. The hearing device according to claim 1 , wherein the chassis comprises one or more snap arms for attachment of an external connector.

11. The hearing device according to claim 1 , wherein the chassis comprises a first pinhole and either a sound hook or a tube adapter provided with a hole or a groove configured to receive a pin, wherein the first pinhole and the hole or groove are adapted to receive the pin when the sound hook or the tube adapter is arranged at the housing.

12. The hearing device according to claim 1 , wherein the first shell and/or the second shell comprises one or more positioning structures for positioning the first shell in a predefined position relative to the second shell.

13. The hearing device according to claim 1 , wherein the hearing device is configured to receive and process ambient sound so as to compensate for a wearers hearing loss.

14. A hearing aid device comprising a top shell member and a bottom shell member together constituting a housing when assembled, wherein the top shell member and the bottom shell member are assembled along a longitudinal axis of the housing, the hearing device comprising a chassis received between the top shell member and the bottom shell member, the chassis provided with attachment structures for attachment of the first shell member and the second shell member to the chassis, wherein the attachment structures are shaped as pinholes configured to receive correspondingly shaped pins so that when the top shell member and the bottom shell member are assembled around the chassis the pins lock the top shell member to the bottom shell member and the chassis is fixated inside the housing, the hearing aid comprising first and second substrates carrying electrical components which are supported by the chassis, wherein the chassis comprises a first portion comprising a plate member extending along a first axis and a second portion having a plate member extending along a second axis, wherein the first substrate is arranged parallel to the plate member of the first portion such that the plate member of the first portion substantially covers a bottom surface of the first substrate, and wherein the second substrate is arranged parallel to the plate member of the second portion such that the plate member of the second portion substantially covers a bottom surface of the second substrate.

15. The hearing aid device according to claim 14 , wherein a sound processor is arranged on the first substrate and/or the second substrate.

16. The hearing aid device according to claim 14 , wherein the angle between the first axis and the second axis is a non-zero angle.

17. The hearing aid device according to claim 14 , wherein the chassis comprises a first pinhole and either a sound hook or a tube adapter provided with a hole or a groove configured to receive a pin, wherein the pinhole and the hole or groove is adapted to receive the pin when the sound hook or the tube adapter is arranged in the housing.

Assignees

• Oticon As

Inventors

• Monroy Lars

Classifications

• H04R1/1058

  Manufacture or assembly · CPC title

• H04R25/65 Primary

  Housing parts, e.g. shells, tips or moulds, or their manufacture · CPC title

• H04R25/60

  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 title

• H04R2225/61

  Aspects relating to mechanical or electronic switches or control elements, e.g. functioning · CPC title

• H04R2225/021

  Behind the ear [BTE] hearing aids · CPC title