Siemens Audiologische Technik Gmbh

Siemens Medical Instruments Pte. Ltd.

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Markus Heerlein

Harald Klemenz

Thomas Kasztelan

Wee Haw Koo

Wai Kit Ho

Christian Schmitt

Beng Hai Tan

Anton Gebert

Wai Kit David Ho

Meng Kiang Lim

Cheoung Hong Lee

Phanhow Amy Cheng

Kim Ho Patrick Yau

Vincent Ong

Kah Hooi Vincent Ong

Markus Hubert

Bock Swee Joshua Tan

In a hearing aid provision can be made for a housing that is worn outside of an auditory canal of a user. Then, sound or electrical signals are conducted into the auditory canal from the housing. To this end, provision can be made for a conducting element such as a sound tube or a cable. The conducting element is then connected to the housing via a coupling element. This connection must be embodied such that the coupling element does not detach from the housing on its own accord. The user must be able to remove the coupling element and the conducting element from the housing in a simple fashion in order e.g. to be able to clean the former two parts. Accordingly, a coupling element and a housing can be interconnected in a detachable fashion, with this connection containing a dovetail joint for the hearing aid.

Hearing device with a conducting element, in particular a sound tube

A hearing aid has an operating device with an operating element for activating a first operating function and a second operating function of the hearing aid. The operating device is configured to cause an execution of an operating function of the hearing aid by activating the corresponding operating function via the operating element. The operating device suppresses the execution of the first operating function by activating the first operating function via the operating element if the second operating function is activated via the operating element.

Hearing aid having an operating device

A hearing aid has a housing, a signal-processing arrangement housed in the housing, an LED, an actuatable switching element arranged on the housing, and a battery. The LED is connected to a positive pole of the battery with its anode connector and to a first connector of the signal-processing arrangement with its cathode connector. The signal-processing arrangement is formed with a monitoring unit, which switches the first connector if there is a drop below a first threshold voltage such that the cathode connector can be connected to a negative pole of the battery.

Hearing aid with LED and method of operation

The invention relates to a hearing aid device and a hearing aid switch. The switch is operable to open and close an electric circuit of the hearing aid device. A lock for the switch is operable to selectively enable and disenable a hearing aid device function. The hearing aid device comprises a device for selectively inhibiting the operation of the switch to enable or to disenable the hearing aid device function.

Hearing aid device with an on/off switch

A hearing aid has a housing, a battery compartment, and a locking mechanism for the battery compartment. A shaft which is arranged on the housing or the battery compartment, and a slide having a hole which forms a fit with the shaft, such that the slide can be moved on the shaft in order to lock and unlock the battery compartment in the housing. The hole has a circular cross section, and the shaft has a cross section which is not a circle, with rotational symmetry when rotated through 360&#xb0;/n, where n is an integer greater than 1. A battery compartment for a hearing aid has a locking mechanism such as this. Because a cross section of said shaft is different from the cross section of the hole in the battery compartment, the shaft is connected to the hole in the battery compartment only at a number of points. This ensures that the slide is held adequately on the shaft even in the event of a production tolerance on the one hand, while, on the other hand, the slide can move on the shaft with little resistance. In a preferred embodiment the shaft is trilobular in cross-section.

Hearing aid with a battery compartment, and battery compartment for a hearing aid, each having a locking mechanism for the battery compartment

A hearing aid device, including a switch being operable to open and close an electric circuit of the device; and a battery locating means for selectively locating a battery within said device for electrical communication with said electric circuit, wherein the switch inhibits the battery locating means from removing the battery from electrical communication with said electric circuit when the switch is arranged to close the electric circuit.

Hearing aid device

Hearing instruments and in particular hearing aids whose signal processing can be adjusted by the user are to be returned to a defined, individual state in a more convenient manner. For this purpose it is provided that at least one individual, current parameter value for ongoing operation of the hearing instrument is automatically stored in a first memory device. The at least one individual, current parameter value can also be stored manually or automatically in a second memory device. If the user wishes to revert to an earlier setting, he can manually reset the at least one parameter of the hearing instrument to the parameter value stored in the second memory device by actuating a button.

Hearing instrument with parameter resetting and corresponding method

The size of hearing apparatuses and in particular of hearing devices is to be reduced. To this end, provision is made to combine a rocker-like actuator of the hearing apparatus for manually adjusting a parameter of a signal processing unit for pressing from a neutral position in a first adjusting position or a second adjusting position with an on/off switch. To this end, the rocker-like actuator can be pressed into an additional switching position. The multiple functionalities of the actuator allow installation space to be conserved and thus allow the housing of the hearing apparatus to be simplified and minimized.

Hearing apparatus having a rocker-like actuator for switching on/off

A hearing device with an audio shoe is to be designed in a simpler and less interference-susceptible manner. To this end, provision is made for an audio shoe to comprise contact springs of such type that directly contact the circuit boards of a hearing device. A contact intermediate piece between the audio shoe and the circuit board of the hearing device can thus be dispensed with. Furthermore, contact problems caused by the intermediate piece can hereby be avoided and the assembly cost for the hearing device reduced.

Audio shoe contact for a hearing device

The production of hearing apparatuses and in particular of hearing devices is to be simplified. To this end, a battery contact module with an electrical contact facility and a plastic frame is proposed, to/in which the contact facility is fastened. In this way, the battery contact module is designed as a SMD component and the contact facility has corresponding connections for a surface mounting on a printed circuit board. An amplifier printed circuit board can herewith be advantageously automatically equipped with the battery contact module and soldered.

SMD battery contact module

A switch for controlling first and second components of an electric circuit is proposed. The switch is operable between first and second positions to control the operation of the first of said components and is operable between third and fourth positions to control operation of the second of said components.

Switch

A space-saving, simply assembled bearing of an electroacoustic miniature transducer that also exhibits good damping properties is provided via a first and second elastic retainer element, whereby the first elastic retainer element is secured to the housing of the electroacoustic miniature transducer only in a central region of the front side of the housing and the second elastic retainer element is secured to the housing of the electroacoustic miniature transducer only in a central region of the housing backside lying opposite the front side of the housing.

Bearing of an electroacoustic miniature transducer in a device, particularly a hearing aid device, as well as an electroacoustic miniature transducer

A device is provided for earphones that are introduced into the auditory canal that provide protection against cerumen in which the sound from the earphone is conducted onto a membrane that is arranged essentially parallel to the auditory canal. Proceeding from the membrane, the sound is forwarded onto the tympanum, where the membrane at least partially seals the earphone so that cerumen is kept away from the earphone. The membrane, including the earphone, can be removed from the hearing aid housing for cleaning purposes.

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