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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2017
Sivantos Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Uwe Flaig, Feucht, DE;
Anand Ganapathy, Singapore, SG;
Stefanie Beyfuss, Erlangen, DE;
Uwe Rass, Nuremberg, DE;
Frank Naumann, Bubenreuth, DE;
Sivantos Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
A hearing instrument has a hearing device rear housing, at least one microphone, a receiver, an earpiece connection or a soundc tube, an earpiece, a power supply unit, and a signal processing unit. The power supply unit includes a rechargeable power supply and an actuating and control device. The hearing instrument further includes a switching device that is configured to assume at least two switching states, and the actuating and control device is configured to actuate a switched-off state of the hearing instrument depending on the switching state of the switching device. There is also described a corresponding power supply unit for a hearing instrument.