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Behind-the-ear hearing aid having a plug-in connector

US8867769B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Medical Instruments Pte. Ltd. · SG

Inventors

Frank Naumann · Erlangen, DE
Holger Kral · Erlangen, DE
Andreas Ratay · Erlangen, DE
Joachim Roland Barth · Nuremberg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 20, 2010
Grant date	Oct 21, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 28, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04R2225/0216
WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A behind-the-ear hearing device has a housing with a plug-in connector on a sidewall of the housing for connecting to an earpiece tube or sound tube. The lateral arrangement of the plug-in connector moves the plug-in connector away from the exposed position on the front end face of the housing. This enables the front end face, which is generally visible, to be made smaller. Advantageously, at least two microphones are provided, with one microphone position in the vicinity of the front end face of the housing. The front microphone position is thus moved farther away from a position that may possibly be covered by the pinna, and the rear microphone position can also be moved farther toward the front. The microphone positions are thus approximately horizontal, which promotes the spatial resolution of the detected surrounding sound (directionality) by the signal processing of the hearing aid.

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