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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2000
Gerd M. Müller, Lohhof, DE;
Hans Leysieffer, Taufkirchen, DE;
Phonak AG, Stafa, CH;
Abstract
An implantable arrangement for mechanical coupling of an output driver part of an active or passive hearing system, the driver part being excitable to mechanically vibrate, to a preselected coupling site in the middle or inner ear, such as on the ossicular chain, the footplate of the stapes or the membrane which closes the round window or an artificial window in the cochlea, in the vestibulum or in the labyrinth (equilibrium organ), via a coupling arrangement which has a coupling element which can be connected to the preselected coupling site. The arrangement is provided with an attenuator which adjoins the coupling site in the implanted state and which has entropy-elastic properties.