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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2018
Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Jeffrey Paul Solum, Greenwood, MN (US);
Yoshi Kasahara, Chaska, MN (US);
Christopher D. Young, Shorewood, MN (US);
Gregory JOhn Haubrich, Champlin, MN (US);
Preetham Varghese, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Abstract
A portable case for storing and charging hearing assistance devices is described. The portable case includes at least one retention structure configured to retain at least part of a hearing assistance device, an energy storage device, a charging circuitry electrically coupled to the energy storage device. The at least one processor is configured to detect when the at least one retention structure retains the at least part of the hearing assistance device, and responsive to detecting the at least one retention structure retaining the at least part of the hearing assistance device, cause the charging circuitry to charge, via an electrical connection shared by the at least part of the hearing assistance device and the charging circuitry, a power source of the hearing assistance device.