Hearing instrument having a coupling unit for the vibration-damped mounting of a receiver

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11019435-B2
Application number	US-201916541862-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 15, 2019
Priority date	Aug 24, 2018
Publication date	May 25, 2021
Grant date	May 25, 2021

Abstract

A hearing instrument includes a housing, a receiver and at least one other component mounted in the housing, in particular a battery and/or an electronic frame. The hearing instrument also has a coupling unit for the vibration-reduced mounting of the receiver. The receiver is elastically coupled by the coupling unit to the at least one additional component.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A hearing instrument, comprising:
a housing;
a receiver;
at least one additional component mounted in said housing; and
a coupling unit providing a vibration-reduced mounting of said receiver, said coupling unit elastically coupling said receiver to said at least one additional component;
said coupling unit including a damping body made of rubber or an elastomer material, said damping body being coupled to said receiver and to said at least one additional component; and
said coupling unit including at least one fixing element for force-lockingly fixing said at least one additional component, said at least one fixing element being constructed integrally or in one piece with said damping body.

2. The hearing instrument according to claim 1 , wherein said coupling unit includes a damping body made of rubber or an elastomer material, said damping body being coupled to said receiver and to said at least one additional component.

3. The hearing instrument according to claim 2 , which further comprises:
a cage;
said damping body being fixed to said cage; and
said coupling unit including, in addition to said damping body, an elastic damping element for mounting said receiver and said cage;
said cage surrounding said elastic damping element.

4. The hearing instrument according to claim 3 , wherein said elastic damping element and said damping body have a lower hardness than said cage.

5. The hearing instrument according to claim 4 , wherein said elastic damping element has a lower hardness than said damping body.

6. The hearing instrument according to claim 3 , wherein said elastic damping element has a lower hardness than said damping body.

7. The hearing instrument according to claim 1 , which further comprises electrical contacts integrated into said coupling unit for contacting at least one of said battery or an electronic component.

8. A hearing instrument, comprising:
a housing;
a receiver;
at least one electronic component including a signal processing unit;
at least one additional component mounted in said housing, said at least one additional component being at least one of a battery or an electronic frame for supporting said signal processing unit; and
a coupling unit providing a vibration-reduced mounting of said receiver, said coupling unit elastically coupling said receiver to said at least one additional component.

Assignees

• Sivantos Pte Ltd
• Sivanots Pte Ltd

Inventors

• Flaig Uwe
• Ritter Hartmut

Classifications

• H04R25/604 Primary

  of acoustic or vibrational transducers · CPC title

• H04R25/456

  mechanically · CPC title

• H04R25/00 Primary

  Electric hearing aids · CPC title

• H04R2225/43

  Signal processing in hearing aids to enhance the speech intelligibility · CPC title

• H04R25/45

  Prevention of acoustic reaction, i.e. acoustic oscillatory feedback · CPC title