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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2026
Filed:
May. 08, 2024
GN Hearing A/s, Ballerup, DK;
Christian Westmark Sønnichsen, København, DK;
GN HEARING A/S, Ballerup, DK;
Abstract
A hearing device includes: an input transducer configured to provide a microphone input transducer signal based on captured sound; a signal processing unit configured to provide an output signal based on a processed input transducer signal; an output transducer configured to provide a stimulation output signal based on the output signal; a battery configured to provide a battery cell voltage; and a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) switched capacitor (SC) DC-DC converter coupled to the battery and comprising: two or more inputs, each of the two or more inputs configured to receive a voltage input, and two or more outputs configured to provide respective voltage outputs, the voltage outputs being different from each other, wherein at least two of the two or more outputs are capable of providing the respective voltage outputs simultaneously; the MIMO SC DC-DC converter configured to convert one of the voltage inputs to one of the voltage outputs.