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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 02, 1999
Steven J. Iseberg, Rolling Meadows, IL (US);
Etymotic Research, Inc., Elk Grove Village, IL (US);
Abstract
A hearing screener apparatus is provided. The hearing screener includes a housing, a testing probe and an elastic coupler suspending the testing probe from the housing. The testing probe preferably includes a shaft and a removable probe tip mounted on the shaft. An ear tip is fitted onto an end of the removable probe tip. The ear tip preferably has a flexible flange arranged at its end to seal within the ear canal of the patient. The screener allows the testing probe to be manipulated about all axes and may have an isolation body or assembly that acts as the elastic coupler. The elastic coupler provides vibrational noise isolation due to movement of the patient and the user.