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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 1998
Filed:
May. 31, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard Goode, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
ReSound Corporation, Redwood City, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
600 25 ; 181130 ;
Abstract
A thin diaphragm for contacting an individual's tympanic membrane is sufficiently stiff and flexible to vibrate in response to audio frequencies so as to augment or over-ride the displacement of the individual's tympanic membrane in order to increase the acoustic efficiency of the tympanic membrane at all frequencies but particularly above 1000 Hz so as to improve mild hearing loss.