Hearing aid and kit for a hearing aid

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10667066-B2
Application number	US-201816214850-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 10, 2018
Priority date	Jun 10, 2016
Publication date	May 26, 2020
Grant date	May 26, 2020

Abstract

A hearing device contains an electronic frame for holding electronic components. The hearing device has first and second resilient contacts. The resilient contacts are fastened to the electronic frame, and the resilient contacts reversibly electrically contact an electronic component using contact surfaces of a double-pole battery. The hearing device contains a rechargeable battery module that contains a rechargeable battery and an electronic convertor. The rechargeable battery module is connected in an articulated manner to the electronic frame so as to be able to move and contains connecting contacts that correspond to the resilient contacts. A kit is provided for the hearing device and the kit has a battery compartment door for reversibly holding the double-pole battery. The battery compartment door is connected to pivot on the electronic frame such that as the battery compartment door is pivoted into a closed position the contact surfaces of the double-pole battery are contacted.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A hearing device, comprising:
electronic components;
an electronic frame for holding said electronic components;
a rechargeable battery module for a rechargeable battery having a first connecting contact, a second connecting contact and a third connecting contact, lying opposite said first connecting contact at a different potential;
three resilient contacts fastened to said electronic frame, said three resilient contacts used so as to electrically contact at least one of said electronic components using said first connecting contact, said second connecting contact and said third connecting contact of said rechargeable battery module;
a battery carrier holding a double-pole battery so that said battery carrier holding said double-pole battery may move in relation to said three resilient contacts, said double-pole battery having a first contact surface and a second contact surface; and
in an intended contacting state between said three resilient contacts and said double-pole battery said resilient contacts allocated respectively to said second connecting contact and said third connecting contact of said rechargeable battery module lie respectively against said first contact surface of said double-pole battery, said first contact surface forming a first pole, and one of said resilient contacts that is allocated to said first connecting contact lies against said second contact surface of said double-pole battery, said second contact surface forming a corresponding second pole.

2. The hearing device according to claim 1 , further comprising a contact carrier carrying said three resilient contacts and is fastened to said electronic frame.

3. The hearing device according to claim 1 , wherein one of said resilient contacts that is allocated to said second connecting contact is used so as to transmit a control signal to said rechargeable battery module.

4. The hearing device according to claim 1 ,
further comprising a housing; and
wherein said battery carrier is embodied as a battery compartment door for reversibly holding said double-pole battery, and said battery compartment door is connected in an articulated manner so as to be able to pivot on said electronic frame or on said housing of the hearing device in such a manner that as said battery compartment door is pivoted into a closed position said first contact surface and said second contact surface of said double-pole battery are contacted using respective corresponding ones of said resilient contacts.

5. The hearing device according to claim 1 , wherein said battery carrier contains two contact springs for reversibly electrically contacting said first contact surface and said second contact surface of said double-pole battery using corresponding ones of said resilient contacts.

6. The hearing device according to claim 5 , wherein said battery carrier is embodied as a battery compartment door and said two contact springs are integrated into said battery compartment door.

7. The hearing device according to claim 6 , wherein one of said contact springs of said battery carrier has a helicoidal section that lies against an end face of said double-pole battery in the intended inserted state of said double-pole battery.

8. The hearing device according to claim 7 , wherein:
said battery carrier has a base body and said contact springs are disposed on said base body and said base body is fixedly connected to and contacted by said electronic frame; and
said battery carrier has a flap that may pivot and in the intended inserted state said two-pole battery is reversibly held in said flap and said flap may reversibly pivot on to said contact springs of said base body.

9. A hearing device, comprising:
electronic components;
an electronic frame for holding said electronic components;
two resilient contacts including a first resilient contact and a second resilient contact, said two resilient contacts are fastened to said electronic frame, said resilient contacts are configured so as to reversibly electrically contact at least one of said electronic components using contact surfaces of a double-pole battery; and
a rechargeable battery module having a rechargeable battery and an electronic convertor system and that is connected in an articulated manner to said electronic frame so as to be able to move and having connecting contacts that correspond to said two resilient contacts, wherein said rechargeable battery module containing three of said connecting contacts including a first connecting contact and a second connecting contact spaced with respect to one another in such a manner that said first and second connecting contacts are contacted in an intended contacting state of said rechargeable battery module by a first of said resilient contacts.

10. The hearing device according to claim 9 , wherein:
said first connecting contact and said second connecting contact contain allocated contact sites that lie in a common plane; and
a third connecting contact of said three connecting contacts is oriented with a contact site transversely with respect to said contact sites of said first and second connecting contact.

11. The hearing device according to claim 9 ,
further comprising a housing; and
wherein said rechargeable battery module is connected in an articulated manner so as to be able to move on said electronic frame or on said housing of the hearing device.

Assignees

• Sivantos Pte Ltd

Inventors

• Beyfuss Stefanie
• Hong Kok Chian
• Freels Bjoern
• Ganapathy Anand
• Kwok Kim Hock
• Ho Fu Keon
• Kral Holger
• Bin Mohd Yahya Zainal Abidin
• Tan Yi Ren Chris
• Naumann Frank
• Lindschou Hansen Christian
• Malthe Borch Lau

Classifications

• H04R2420/09

  Applications of special connectors, e.g. USB, XLR, in loudspeakers, microphones or headphones · CPC title

• H04R2225/31

  Aspects of the use of accumulators in hearing aids, e.g. rechargeable batteries or fuel cells · CPC title

• H04R25/602 Primary

  of batteries · CPC title

• H04R25/65

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