Beltone Electronics Corporation

Motorola Corporation

Miles P Posen

Robert Steven Yoest

Greg Prutnikov

Lawrence M Posen

Kevin L Kloker

Erik A Lindberg

Hearing aids having housings formed as standardized shapes include electronic components. The components can be separate or integrated into a single unit. The housings can be formed as one or more spheroidal-like surfaces of revolution which are symmetrical along an axis. Alternately, the housings can be formed by lofting ellipses along a central axis. Representative housing shapes include egg-shaped and pear-shaped surfaces. An insertion and extraction element is fixedly attached to an end of the housing which extends toward the outer ear when the aid is inserted into an ear canal. The insertion/extraction member can be formed as either a rigid or a flexible element. The housing can carry a soft, deformable outer layer to improve performance and user comfort when installed in an ear canal.

Hearing aids with standardized spheroidal housings

An acoustic attenuator and wax barrier for a hearing aid includes a substantially cylindrical, color coded, housing having a barbed portion for press-fitting the barrier into position. As the channel diameters increase, an associated peak output frequency also increases for the respective housing. The barrier may include one of a plurality of attenuating or damping screens which provides predetermined sound damping characteristics. Alternately, the barrier may include housings having different acoustic channel diameters to provide the different, predetermined audio attenuation or damping characteristics. The barrier is field changeable and is more easily inserted than removed. The barrier may be provided as part of a system which includes a tool for performing field replacement of the barrier.

Press-fit sound damping structure

A hand held hearing screening device includes a housing with a spacing element extending therefrom. Word generating circuitry is carried within the housing. A control switch on the housing cycles the generating circuitry to produce one or more output word or phrase sequences.

Hearing aid screening device having an elongated spacing element which

A modulo arithmetic unit for providing a sum or difference of two numbers of arbitrary value in a selected one of a plurality of moduli is provided. Each modulus has a lower and an upper boundary and a range of intermediate values. First and second adders are provided for respectively providing first and second outputs which respectively represent outputs compensated for and not compensated for a possible wraparound of the upper or lower boundary. Control circuitry is used to detect whether a wraparound occurred during the calculation depending upon the value of selective interstage carry signals of the first and second adders. The correct output is provided as a selected one of the outputs of the first and second adders in response to the control circuitry.

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