Siemens Medical Instruments Pte. Ltd.

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Siemens Audiologische Technik Gmbh

Sivantos Pte. Ltd.

Meng Kiang Lim

Leep Foong Chew

Cheoung Hong Lee

Phanhow Amy Cheng

Wee Haw Koo

Hoong Yih Chan

Chow Lan Stella Yap

Harald Klemenz

Markus Heerlein

Thomas Kasztelan

Thomas Dickel

Poh Chye Lim

Raymond Kang

Lilyana Joeng

Hock Peng Lim

Peilin Phui

Chor Fan Chan

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

The fitting of hearing aids and other hearing devices is intended to be made more comfortable. For this, provision is made for a hearing device with a housing which contains a signal processing unit and has a sound outlet. A supporting hook for attaching the hearing device to an ear or a head can be fixed on the sound outlet of the housing such that sound emanating from the sound outlet is guided through the supporting hook. A sensor for detecting the type of supporting hook is arranged in or on the housing. The sensor controls the signal processing unit as a function of the detected type of supporting hook. Thus, the user can for example use different types of supporting hooks without having to decide on a type of supporting hook during the first fitting. Moreover, the degree of mass production of the hearing aid can be further increased by the automatic recognition of the type of supporting hook.

Hearing device with supporting hook recognition

In an embodiment, a substrate arrangement is provided. The substrate arrangement may include a semiconductor substrate including a first contact portion and a second contact portion on a first surface of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the semiconductor substrate is arranged such that the first contact portion and the second contact portion face each other. The substrate arrangement may further include an electrical connector configured to connect the first contact portion and the second contact portion.

Substrate arrangement

A flexible printed circuit board having an integrated shield, a circuit based thereon, and a hearing aid having the circuit, are provided. The flexible printed circuit board includes a mount layer, a metallization layer and a shielding layer for shielding against electromagnetic interference influences. It can be bent about a respective bending axis in at least two different bending areas, in which the two bending axes are at an angle of at least 45 degrees to one another. The shielding layer extends at least over the two bending areas. A circuit based on the printed circuit board can be fitted with electronic components in at least one circuit area and can be bent in the bending areas in such a way that the circuit area is shielded by the shielding layer against electromagnetic interference influences in at least three spatial directions which are substantially at right angles to one another.

Circuit with an integrated shield and hearing aid

A hearing apparatus with a housing including a housing interior is provided. Signal processing components are accommodated in the housing interior. The hearing apparatus includes a battery compartment fastened in or on the housing, which has a battery compartment interior into which a battery is inserted for supplying power to the hearing apparatus. Further, a membrane is provided, which separates the housing interior from the battery compartment interior. The membrane is fastened to the housing or to the battery compartment.

Hearing apparatus comprising a membrane on the battery compartment interior

A hearing aid contains a microphone detecting an acoustic input signal and converts it to an electrical output signal, a receiver producing an acoustic output signal being dependent on an electrical output signal of the microphone, and a transmitter transmitting a monitoring signal, which is dependent on the electrical output signal. A transceiver contains a receiver for receiving the monitoring signal, and a signal processing device for processing the monitoring signal. The signal processing device processes the monitoring signal to produce an indication signal which is acoustically restricted with respect to the monitoring signal such that it simulates a restricted hearing capability of a person, or which indicates an operating/signal state of the hearing aid. The transmission of the monitoring signal to the transceiver and the processing to form the indication signal provides information about the state of the hearing aid for monitoring of the hearing aid.

Method and apparatus for monitoring a hearing aid

A hearing aid with a drop safeguard has an accelerometer, an electrical circuit, and a memory. The accelerometer generates an electrical signal in dependence on an acceleration of the hearing aid. The signal is transmitted to the electrical circuit which uses this to determine a jerky acceleration of the hearing aid. The electrical circuit saves the respectively current settings of the hearing aid to the memory in the case of a jerky acceleration of the hearing aid. After the hearing aid is dropped, the settings can be reconstructed from the memory so that as a result this prevents the settings of the hearing aid from being changed.

Hearing aid with a drop safeguard

A shielding device for a hearing aid is able to shield components against interference from the outside and vice versa. The shielding device has at least three sections, which are each connected to one another via a flexible connecting section. It being possible for at least a first section to be provided with a printed circuit board and to be populated with at least one component and/or an integrated circuit, it being possible for the two other sections to be folded around the first section by the flexible connecting sections, in order to shield the first section.

Shielding device for a hearing aid

The invention is intended to simplify the operation of a hearing aid device. Toward that end, means are present in the hearing aid device for storing the value of a parameter which can be set by the hearing aid device wearer by actuation of a control element, which parameter value was valid before the hearing aid device was turned off, with the result that the value of the parameter that was valid before the hearing aid device was turned off will be set automatically as the current value of the parameter after the device is turned off and then turned back on again.

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