Patent · US Expired

Arrangement for mechanical coupling of a driver to a coupling site of the ossicular chain

US6537199B1 · kind B1 · utility

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16References

20Claims

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Assignee

Phonak AG · CH

Inventors

Gerd Muller · Falkensee, DE
Hans Leysieffer · Taufkirchen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 26, 2000
Grant date	Mar 25, 2003
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 26, 2020

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61F2002/183
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An implantable arrangement for mechanical coupling of an output driver part of an active or passive hearing system, the driver part being excitable to mechanically vibrate, to a preselected coupling site in the middle or inner ear, such as on the ossicular chain, the footplate of the stapes or the membrane which closes the round window or an artificial window in the cochlea, in the vestibulum or in the labyrinth (equilibrium organ), via a coupling arrangement which has a coupling element which can be connected to the preselected coupling site. The arrangement is provided with an attenuator which adjoins the coupling site in the implanted state and which has entropy-elastic properties.

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