| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| D577708 |
Wireless microphone transmitter |
September 30, 2008 |
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| D572823 |
Hearing aid |
July 8, 2008 |
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| D490438 |
Graphical display for a binaural hearing aid |
May 25, 2004 |
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| D474779 |
Array of divided scroll bars for a binaural hearing aid device computer display |
May 20, 2003 |
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| D462077 |
Scroll bar for a binaural hearing aid device computer display |
August 27, 2002 |
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| D457635 |
Hearing aid with module |
May 21, 2002 |
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| D445802 |
Scroll bar for a binaural hearing aid device computer display |
July 31, 2001 |
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| 7428312 |
Method for adapting a hearing device to a momentary acoustic situation and a hearing device syst |
September 23, 2008 |
| In a signal processing unit of a hearing device, the signal processing unit consisting of a signal analyzing unit and a signal identification unit, the momentary acoustic surround situation is identified. Based on this identified surround situation, the parameter set belonging to the |
| 7412288 |
Text to speech conversion in hearing systems |
August 12, 2008 |
| A hearing system for a person, comprising: an input device for providing electrical signals produced from sound, a signal processor for processing said electrical signals for producing audio signals, a digital text storage for storing digital text received from a source of digital text, |
| 7401680 |
Hearing protection earplug and use of the same |
July 22, 2008 |
| A hearing protection earplug having a shell worn at least in part in a user's ear canal, an active unit having an acoustic output transducer and an arrangement for producing output audio signals for said output transducer, and a detachable connection of the active unit to said shell, |
| 7398166 |
Method and apparatus for the measurement of the acoustic impedance |
July 8, 2008 |
| A probe located in an area to be measured has an acoustic stimulator, (e.g., a loudspeaker and a microphone). The stimulator sends acoustic signals to the microphone where the signals are transformed into electrical signals and transferred to an analysis unit. Using a defined stimula |
| 7397925 |
Hearing device system and method for manufacturing such device |
July 8, 2008 |
| A hearing device has an acoustical/electrical input converter, and electrical/mechanical output converter, and a digital signal processing unit connected between the input converter and output converter. The device is adapted to a specific ear of a specific individual. The signal pro |
| 7394909 |
Hearing device with embedded channnel |
July 1, 2008 |
| A hearing device having at least one of an acoustical/electrical converter and an electrical/acoustical converter respectively with an acoustical input or output. The input or output, as the case may be, is linked to a coupling opening at the outer surface of the device via a channel. At |
| 7387187 |
Custom-molded ear-plug, and process for producing a custom-molded ear-plug device |
June 17, 2008 |
| A hearing device and process for its updating, including a resilient outer shell and one or more internal units, with the outer shell conforming in shape to at least one of the internal units so that the internal unit is held snugly in place. The outer shell can be replaced using either |
| 7372973 |
Hearing aid |
May 13, 2008 |
| A hearing device has a housing with an acoustic input aperture and an acoustic output aperture. A cover element overlays the input aperture. The material of the cover element permits passage of sound received at the input aperture though the material. Two microphones are located in t |
| 7372971 |
Hearing device with fuel cell |
May 13, 2008 |
| A hearing device is provided that includes at least a signal processing unit and at least a fuel cell to supply the signal processing unit with energy. The fuel tank of the fuel cell includes a membrane or an area with micro openings to let the fluid or gas to be used by the fuel cell |
| 7372969 |
Method for processing an input signal to generate an output signal, and application of said meth |
May 13, 2008 |
| A method and a system for defining a threshold value (O.sub.max, O.sub.min, O.sub.TR) serving to limit the output signal of a processing unit which is fed an input signal. An input-signal level is determined and the threshold value (O.sub.max, O.sub.min, O.sub.TR) is set as a functio |
| 7369670 |
Earplug and method for manufacturing the same |
May 6, 2008 |
| The invention relates to an active hearing protection earplug comprising a shell (2000) to be worn at least in part in a user's ear canal and being adapted to attenuate sound waves arriving at the outer end (2001) of the shell, and an active system (2002, 2010) comprising an input transd |
| 7349549 |
Method to log data in a hearing device as well as a hearing device |
March 25, 2008 |
| The present invention relates to a method for recording information in a hearing device and/or in a recording unit at least temporally operationally connected to the hearing device. The method consists in that a point in time of the recording and/or a recording frequency as well as t |
| 7324651 |
Feedback suppression |
January 29, 2008 |
| Acoustical signals impinging on an input converter are converted into a first electric signal by a controllably variable transfer characteristic. The transfer characteristic is dependent on the angle at which the acoustical signals impinge on the input converter. The first electric s |
| 7319770 |
Method of processing an acoustic signal, and a hearing instrument |
January 15, 2008 |
| A method of processing an acoustic input signal into an output signal in a hearing instrument includes converting the acoustic input signal into a converted input signal, and applying a gain to the converted input signal to obtain the output signal. According to the invention, the gain i |
| 7319769 |
Method to adjust parameters of a transfer function of a hearing device as well as hearing device |
January 15, 2008 |
| A method to adjust parameters of a transfer function of a hearing device is disclosed, the method comprising the steps of extracting features of an input signal fed to the hearing device, classifying the extracted features into one of several possible classes, selecting a class corre |
| 7319768 |
Hearing aid and method for the detection and automatic selection of an input signal |
January 15, 2008 |
| A method for detecting and automatically selecting an input signal in a hearing aid in which at least two analog input signals are available, comprises the steps of analyzing the analog input signals and detecting, for each analog input signal, whether it comprises a relevant signa |
| 7319399 |
System and method for monitoring the wearing compliance of hearing protection devices |
January 15, 2008 |
| A system for monitoring the use of a hearing protection unit comprising a left ear hearing protection device (14) and a right ear hearing protection device (12) to be worn by a user (10) within a monitoring area, an arrangement (16, 18, 22, 1006, 2006) for wirelessly detecting the po |
| 7308107 |
Method for activating a hearing device |
December 11, 2007 |
| A hearing device is activated by operating the hearing device in an operating mode in a first phase after supplying energy to internal circuitry of the hearing device, by operating the hearing device in a reduced operating mode in a second phase and by operating the hearing device in |
| 7305098 |
Hearing device |
December 4, 2007 |
| A hearing device has an electrical/acoustical output converter that communicates with ambient air through a membrane. The membrane separates two spaces. Each space communicates with ambient air through a passage that substantially blocks acoustical signals in the range of the audible |
| 7286678 |
Hearing device with peripheral identification units |
October 23, 2007 |
| Hearing aid fitted with a central processing unit (1) having peripherals (3E, 3A) connected to its input and output. Each peripheral includes an identification unit (5) having an output connected to a first input of a comparator (9). A second input of the comparator is connected to a |
| 7286672 |
Binaural hearing device and method for controlling a hearing device system |
October 23, 2007 |
| A binaural hearing device system comprises a reception device (1) for one ear with at least two input acoustical/electrical converters (3a, 3b). Via a communication link (5) a signal (A.sub.1) which depends on both input converter's output signals is transmitted to a second device (7) |
| 7283842 |
Fitting-setup for hearing device |
October 16, 2007 |
| A fitting setup for hearing aids (1), wherein a cell phone (1) is the input device. The cell phone is used to communicate with a server so as to change the fitting setup for the hearing aid to an optimal setting. The cell phone may also be used to communicate personalized data to the |
| 7283640 |
Microphone cover |
October 16, 2007 |
| The inventive microphone cover for hearing devices for at least partially covering openings (6) arranged at the outside of the hearing device comprises a ring (2) with racks (4) overdrawing the opening of the ring (2). The outer diameter of the ring (2) thereby is equivalent with the |
| 7267847 |
Hydrophobic coating of individual components of hearing aid devices |
September 11, 2007 |
| For the liquid impervious sealing of smallest crevices, chinks, capillaries and/or openings within a housing wall, in particular of electronic or electrical devices, it is proposed to provide the housing wall at least in the area of the crevices, chinks, openings or capillaries with |
| 7266043 |
Method for directional location and locating system |
September 4, 2007 |
| In order to locate electromagnetic or acoustic signal sources of a sensor configuration (1a through 1c) fitted with at least two electric outputs; where the incidence-dependent transfer functions between the acoustic signals incident on the input(s) of the sensor configuration (1a throug |
| 7254246 |
Method for establishing a binaural communication link and binaural hearing devices |
August 7, 2007 |
| A binaural communication link between two hearing devices is established via at least one wire (7.sub.w) and a conductor, which is formed by individual's body (7.sub.B). |
| 7251338 |
Method for handling data of a hearing device and hearing device |
July 31, 2007 |
| A hearing device and method for handling data in a hearing device that enables writing of the data into a storage location only under certain conditions. The conditions are: the data is being entered by a person who has previously entered data to the hearing device or the data has not |
| 7248712 |
Base plate with electronic module |
July 24, 2007 |
| The present invention relates to a base plate for the reception of at least one electronic module, whereby the electronic module is insertable and connectable through an opening or slot respectively within the base plate into said base plate. Thereby a part of the electronic module r |
| 7248711 |
Method for frequency transposition and use of the method in a hearing device and a communication |
July 24, 2007 |
| A method for frequency transposition in a communication device Or a hearing device, respectively, is disclosed by transforming an acoustical signal into an electrical signal (s) and by transforming the electrical signal from time domain into frequency domain to obtain a spectrum (S). A |
| 7248710 |
Embedded internet for hearing aids |
July 24, 2007 |
| A method is described to operate a hearing device with an input transducer (1), a signal processing unit (2) and an output transducer (4). The method comprises the steps of converting an acoustic input signal into a converted input signal, processing the converted input signal in a main |
| 7240765 |
Customized hearing protection earplug with an acoustic filter and method for manufacturing the s |
July 10, 2007 |
| The invention relates to a hearing protection earplug, comprising a hard shell (10) having an elasticity of from shore D 85 to shore D 65 and having an outer surface individually shaped according to the measured inner shape of the user's outer ear and ear canal for being worn at least |
| 7231055 |
Method for the adjustment of a hearing device, apparatus to do it and a hearing device |
June 12, 2007 |
| An adjustment method for a hearing device and an apparatus to do it are proposed, by which a model for the perception of a psycho-acoustic variable, especially of the loudness, is parametrized for a standard group of individuals (L.sub.N) as well as for an individual (L.sub.I). On gr |
| 7212643 |
Real-ear zoom hearing device |
May 1, 2007 |
| A hearing device has a behind-the-ear microphone arrangement that is not to be placed in the ear canal of the wearer. The microphone arrangement has a first microphone with an output. An electrical/mechanical output converter has a further microphone and a beam former unit with at least |
| 7194101 |
Hearing device having two modules for assembling/disassembling device |
March 20, 2007 |
| A hearing device is provided with an electrical supply unit and an electrical to mechanical converter incorporated in a first module. An acoustical to electrical converter and a signal processing unit are incorporated in a second module. The first and second modules are assembled so |
| 7194100 |
Method for individualizing a hearing aid |
March 20, 2007 |
| This invention relates to a method for the individualized adaptation of a hearing aid to a person. The method consists basically of the measurement and quantification by parameters of the loudness perception of the individual, weighted by a first factor. Also weighted is a standardized |
| 7185734 |
Hearing protection earplug, use of such an earplug and method for manufacturing such an earplug |
March 6, 2007 |
| The invention relates to a hearing protection earplug, comprising a shell for being worn at least in part in the ear canal of a user and a faceplate (12) at the outer end of the shell or within a cavity of the shell having an outer opening, wherein the faceplate is provided with adap |
| 7185733 |
Method for manufacturing an ear device and ear device |
March 6, 2007 |
| An apparatus and method for applying a substance to a human body includes a hearing device and the substance provided at a surface of said device. The substance can be incorporated into a shell of the hearing device and exhibit controlled migration through said shell and to the surface o |
| 7181032 |
Method for establishing a detachable mechanical and/or electrical connection |
February 20, 2007 |
| An electrical connection to or in a hearing apparatus is established by assembling a series capacitor. The capacitor is formed by one part having one capacitor plate and a second part having another capacitor plate. A part of the casing of the hearing apparatus can be used as a dielectri |
| 7177436 |
Component arranged directly on a t-coil |
February 13, 2007 |
| At small electric devices, such as in particular medical devices, as e.g. hearing devices, very small electric coils (1) are used. Especially with hearing devices e.g. so-called t-coils are used. Those t-coils are considered and arranged at hearing devices as inductivities with paras |
| 7174028 |
Method for manufacturing hearing aids, and a hearing aid |
February 6, 2007 |
| A hearing device is made by manufacturing a first functional part of a first material to provide a first function for the hearing device. A second functional part is manufactured of a second material to provide a second function for the hearing device. The first and second parts are |
| 7158931 |
Method for identifying a momentary acoustic scene, use of the method and hearing device |
January 2, 2007 |
| A method and a device for identifying an acoustic scene are provided, whereas the method comprises the steps that an acoustic input signal, preferably recorded by at least one microphone, is processed in at least two processing stages in such a manner that an extraction phase is prov |
| 7155023 |
Switch for a body-worn electronic device |
December 26, 2006 |
| An operating element (31) is provided on a behind-the-ear hearing id which can be operated in two different directions (K, F) and performs a different switching function in each of them. |
| 7149319 |
Telecommunication system, speech recognizer, and terminal, and method for adjusting capacity for |
December 12, 2006 |
| Time-limited electrical audio signals are fed to an electromechanical output transducer in addition to the signals from the hearing aid input. Some of the time-limited audio signals are user-defined. The process is implemented in a hearing aid having an electromechanical transducer and a |
