Stryker European Holdings I LLC

Bernafon Ag

Woodwelding Ag

Jean-Claude Frély

Marcel Aeschlimann

Antonino Lanci

Astrid Bordush

Jürg Clavadetscher

Thomas Knecht

A method and a device for anchoring a suture to an object includes a shuttle and a pin made of a material which can be liquefied by means of ultrasonic vibrations. A suture is attached to a rear end of the pin. The shuttle has a shuttle body, a shuttle arm and a suture reception, wherein the shuttle arm is suitable for releasably holding the pin in a predetermined position relative to the shuttle body such that the pin can be reliably introduced into a hole in an object.

Thread anchor

A hearing aid includes a shaped body that is adapted to an individual auditory canal. A casting cavity is created from a central casting space element, an outer casting space element, and a canal element. The casting cavity is filled while inside the auditory canal. The central casting space element, which remains on the hearing aid, has an outer and an inner ring as well as a tubular and extendible membrane. The outer casting space element delimits the casting cavity on the outer face. After casting, the outer casting space element is replaced by an electronics module including a loudspeaker. The at least partly flexible canal element can hold the loudspeaker canal open, can be joined in a fixed or detachable manner to the outer casting space element, and can essentially close the opening of the inner ring and can limit the axial mobility of the inner ring.

Set and method for producing a hearing aid and hearing aid produced according to this method

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Bienne, Switzerland

Jean-Claude Frély