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Siemens Medical Instruments Pte. Ltd.

Siemens Audiologische Technik Gmbh

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Siemens Corporation

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Peter Nikles

Ulrich Schätzle

Erika Radick

Christian Schmitt

Benjamin Schmidt

Erwin Singer

Gottfried Rückerl

Johannes Kuhn

Cornelia Wiedenbrüg

Volker Gebhardt

Juergen Reithinger

Tong Fang

Eghart Fischer

Torsten Niederdränk

Fred McBagonluri

Martin Schmidt

Sebastian Suedekum

Homayoun Kamkar-Parsi

Jürgen Reithinger

Mario Schuehler

Thomas Kasztelan

Christian Weistenhöfer

Thomas Fischer

Mihail Boguslavskij

Raimund Martin

Hans Adel

Artem Boltyenkov

Simon Huettinger

Joerg Bindner

Eduard Kaiser

Jörg Bindner

Jan Bauer

Therese Velde

Erika Martinewski

Bassem Ismail

Frank McBagonluri

HouQuan Chong

Uwe Bally

Robert Felsmann

Sebastian SÜDEKUM

Mario SCHÜHLER

Fred Mcbagonluri

An antenna, in particular a magneto-inductive antenna, for a hearing instrument as well as a hearing instrument having such an antenna are provided. The antenna has a first antenna surface and a second antenna surface, which are respectively formed from a flexible magnetic foil. The antenna furthermore has a base, which is formed from a magnetic material or contains a magnetic layer, and which connects the two antenna surfaces to one another. The two antenna surfaces are angled off from the base in the same direction. Lastly, the antenna contains an antenna winding which has at least one first monolayer spiral coil and is arranged, in particular applied, externally on the first antenna surface so that an axis of the first spiral coil is oriented perpendicularly with respect to the first antenna surface.

Compact MI antenna for a hearing instrument and hearing instrument

A hearing aid, in particular an in-the-ear hearing aid, has a housing in which an antenna module is arranged. The antenna module has a winding and a receptacle space in which an electronic component, such as an earphone, is arranged. The antenna module is prefabricated in that an assembly body is provided to which a magnetic layer and then the winding are applied. The assembly body defines the receptacle space and is designed for this purpose optionally as a tubular hollow body having a cavity forming the receptacle space or the assembly body is alternatively removed so that the receptacle space is formed by the removal. The electrical component is then inserted into the receptacle space of the prefabricated antenna module and the unit, consisting of the component and the antenna module, is placed in the housing.

Method for producing a hearing aid with an antenna module, and hearing aid

A charging system has a charging device and a hearing device. The hearing device has a front portion in which a secondary charging winding is arranged. The charging device has a charging housing with a receiving space that extends in a longitudinal direction and that has an opening. The charging device also has a primary charging winding formed circumferentially about an inner space. The hearing device is insertable with its front portion into the inner space. A secondary charging winding is wound around a component of the hearing device, such as a receiver. To ensure efficient charging, at least one magnetic layer, namely a primary magnetic layer, is arranged around the primary charging winding and/or a secondary magnetic layer is arranged between the component and the secondary charging winding.

Charging system and charging device for a hearing device

A hearing device has a housing in which a receiver is arranged as an electrical component. An antenna arrangement is formed, which has a winding in the form of a coil, which is arranged around the receiver with the interposition of a shielding foil. The shielding foil has a section extending around the receiver and several lugs adjoining it, which project beyond the receiver, the lugs enclosing between them an interspace adjoining the receiver. The shielding foil has in particular two layers, namely a magnetic layer and an electrical shielding layer. By this arrangement an antenna arrangement with high sensitivity is formed and at the same time a shielded partial area is created in the inter-space in which further components can be arranged. Due to the design of the lugs, which are particularly flexible, they can be attached to an inner wall of a housing.

Hearing device

A hearing instrument is specified having a rechargeable battery, a charging coil for inductively receiving energy for charging the battery, a transmitter and/or receiver coil electrically separated from the charging coil for inductively transmitting and/or receiving data, and a magnetic core. Both the charging coil and the transmitter and/or receiver coil are wound on the magnetic core.

Hearing instrument

A hearing aid has a hearing aid module for supplying electrical energy and has a transmitting and receiving unit for communication with another device. The hearing aid module has an accumulator and a charging circuit for charging the accumulator. The charging circuit is formed for contactless, in particular inductive, charging of the accumulator. The hearing aid module further has a charging conductor loop. The transmitting and receiving unit has a radio conductor loop and the radio conductor loop is integrated into the hearing aid module.

Hearing aid, hearing aid set and hearing aid module

A magnetic-inductive antenna for a hearing instrument includes two antenna surfaces which are formed from magnetic, flexible foil, and a base which is wound with an antenna winding. The antenna surfaces are formed from magnetic foil blanks which are separated from one another. The base has, at each of its end sides, a respective opening into which a respective one of the foil blanks is inserted. A hearing instrument and a method for producing a magnetic-inductive antenna for a hearing instrument are also provided.

High-performance magnetic-inductive antenna for a hearing instrument, hearing instrument and method for producing the antenna

An antenna for inductively transmitting information and/or energy, in particular a hearing aid antenna, has a foil-like antenna base body that has a central coil core section that holds a first coil, and outer antenna sections arranged opposite one another on both sides of the central coil core section. The outer antenna sections respectively have an edge-side coil core section that adjoins the central coil core section and holds a second coil. The outer antenna sections are at an angle relative to the central coil core section. There is also described a device, in particular a hearing device, which is preferably a hearing aid, with such an antenna.

Antenna and device with such an antenna

An antenna, in particular for a hearing aid, for wireless radio communication, comprising a coil core which extends along a longitudinal direction and carries a number of windings, and comprising a planar first shield that is located on an end face of the coil core and is made of a ferrimagnetic and/or ferromagnetic material. The first shield extends at an angle to the longitudinal direction of the coil core. The invention further relates to a method for manufacturing an antenna as well as to a hearing aid comprising an antenna.

Antenna

A hearing aid, in particular a behind-the-ear hearing assistance aid, contains a transmitting and/or receiving unit having an antenna element for wireless signal transmission and for wireless energy transfer to an energy store. The antenna element is formed as a foil structure, which at least sectionally encloses the energy store.

Hearing aid, in particular behind-the-ear hearing assistance aid

In a binaural hearing aid system audio signals are transmitted between an antenna facility of a left ITE hearing aid and an antenna facility of a right ITE hearing aid. Binaural beam forming is based on a natural directivity of the pinna and/or based on a head shadowing effect. Each antenna facility has an antenna arrangement with a coil core made of magnetically permeable material, and extending along a longitudinal axis, a further electric hearing aid component, which emits electromagnetic interference radiation, and an at least partially planar shield made of magnetically permeable material. The shield is arranged between the antenna arrangement and the further hearing aid component transversely to the longitudinal axis of the coil core and the shield is arranged at a distance of 50 to 150 micrometers from the coil core, preferably 75 to 100 micrometers.

Binaural hearing aid system

A loudspeaker module for a hearing device has a loudspeaker, which has a loudspeaker diaphragm and a drive for the loudspeaker diaphragm, and a housing, in which the loudspeaker is arranged. Furthermore, the loudspeaker module contains an antenna unit, which has an antenna coil having a coil axis, a tubular coil core, which forms a sound channel, and an antenna base plate, in which a sound passage opening that opens into the sound channel is formed. The antenna coil, the coil core and the antenna base plate in this case prescribe an antenna characteristic of the antenna unit. The side wall of the housing on the diaphragm side is in this case formed by the antenna base plate.

Loudspeaker module for a hearing device, and hearing device

A binaural hearing device has first and second hearing aids and a control device. Each hearing aid has a communication unit, an audio receiver and an earphone. The communication units are configured for reciprocal data transmission by inductive coupling. The audio receivers receive and process stereophonic audio data. The control device switches one of the hearing aids to an inactive audio reception state and the other to an active audio reception state, swaps the audio reception states of the hearing aids within an operating period based on a signal strength of the audio signal of one hearing aid at a time, and drives the hearing aid with the active audio reception state to transmit audio data to the hearing aid with the inactive audio reception state via the communication units.

Hearing device for binaural supply and method for its operation

A hearing aid device has an antenna device. The antenna device is configured to receive and/or transmit electromagnetic waves of a predetermined wavelength lambda. The antenna device has an energy coupling device which is configured to supply or to draw electrical energy to or from the antenna device. The antenna device has a first conductor and a second conductor, which are in energy exchange with the energy coupling device, extend away from the energy coupling device in different directions and are arranged a short distance from a third conductor. A first ohmic connection between the first conductor and the third conductor and a second ohmic connection between the second conductor and the third conductor are arranged at a predefined distance from the energy coupling device.

Hearing aid device having a folded dipole

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