Hearing aid comprising a receiver assembly

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10499166-B2
Application number	US-201816033801-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 12, 2018
Priority date	Sep 30, 2015
Publication date	Dec 3, 2019
Grant date	Dec 3, 2019

Abstract

A hearing aid comprising a receiver assembly is disclosed. The receiver assembly includes a housing adapted to accommodate receivers of different geometry and/or size and/or mechanical dimensions and suspension member arranged in the housing. The suspension member comprises vibration dampers protruding from an outer periphery of the suspension member and a plurality of spacers provided at an inner periphery of the suspension member. The plurality of spacers is positioned to arrange and fix one or more cushions or enclosed structures in predefined grooves formed by adjacent spacers in the space between the receiver and the suspension member.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A hearing aid comprising
a receiver assembly comprising a suspension member, the suspension member comprising a plurality of spacers provided at an inner periphery of the suspension member;
wherein the plurality of spacers is positioned to form grooves between adjacent spaces and wherein one or more cushions or enclosed structures are provided in the formed grooves.

2. A hearing aid according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of spacers provided at the inner periphery of the suspension member are configured to maintain or regain, when deformed, the shape of the one or more cushions or enclosed structures.

3. A hearing aid according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of spacers are integrated parts or detachably fixed parts of the suspension member.

4. A hearing aid according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of spacers comprises a resilient material, the plurality of spacers being configured to absorb shock.

5. A hearing aid according to claim 1 , wherein the suspension member comprises one or more vents.

6. A hearing aid according to claim 1 , wherein the suspension member comprises one or more sealing members configured to control air flowing into and out of the one or more or enclosed structures.

7. A hearing aid according to claim 1 , wherein the one or more cushions or one or more enclosed structures are integrated in or detachably fixed at the inside structure of the suspension member.

8. A hearing aid according to claim 1 , wherein each of the one or more cushions or enclosed structures is formed by one or more continuous structures containing air or another filler material or a series of continuous sub-structures forming a cushion.

9. A hearing aid according to claim 1 , wherein the receiver assembly comprises a housing having detachably connected housing components adapted to define the housing in an attached configuration and adapted to accommodate receivers of different geometry and/or size and/or mechanical dimensions.

10. A hearing aid according to claim 1 , wherein the receiver assembly comprises a housing having a front portion and a rear portion, wherein the front portion and the rear portion comprises attachment structures for detachable attachment of the front portion to the rear portion.

Assignees

• Oticon As
• Bernafon Ag

Inventors

• Margot Roland
• Crook Ben
• Persson Lars
• Bjerregaard Henning
• HEIBING Sune
• Christensen Niels Erik Holm
• Andersen Mikael
• Tipsmark Claus
• Larsen Martin
• Spragge Peter
• Monroy Lars
• Andersson Poul Hilding

Classifications

• H04R2460/17

  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 title

• H04R25/604

  of acoustic or vibrational transducers · CPC title

• H04R25/456 Primary

  mechanically · CPC title

• H04R25/65 Primary

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

• H04R1/2876

  by means of damping material, e.g. as cladding (damping material for tuning desired resonances H04R1/2807, e.g. in vents H04R1/2823, H04R1/2846) · CPC title