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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2010
Scott Allan Miller, Iii, Lafayette, CO (US);
Scott Allan Miller, III, Lafayette, CO (US);
Cochlear Limited, Macquarie University, AU;
Abstract
An implantable microphone that includes a hermetically-sealed, enclosed volume and an electret member and back plate disposed with a space therebetween and capacitively coupleable to provide an output signal indicative of acoustic signals incident upon at least one of the electret member and back plate. At least one of the electret member and the back plate may include a plurality of laterally offset portions located in corresponding spatial relation to a plurality of laterally offset regions including the lateral extent of the space. The output signal may be at least one of weighted and weightable in relation to the plurality of laterally offset portions. The electret member may include the plurality of laterally offset portions, and the laterally offset portions may include at least one positively charged dielectric material portion and at least one negatively charged dielectric material portion.