发明授权
- 专利标题: Systems and methods for photo-mechanical hearing transduction
- 专利标题(中): 光机械听觉传导的系统和方法
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申请号: US11248459申请日: 2005-10-11
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公开(公告)号: US07867160B2公开(公告)日: 2011-01-11
- 发明人: Vincent Pluvinage , Rodney C. Perkins
- 申请人: Vincent Pluvinage , Rodney C. Perkins
- 申请人地址: US CA Redwood City
- 专利权人: EarLens Corporation
- 当前专利权人: EarLens Corporation
- 当前专利权人地址: US CA Redwood City
- 代理机构: Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP
- 主分类号: H04R25/00
- IPC分类号: H04R25/00 ; H04R25/02
摘要:
Hearing systems for both hearing impaired and normal hearing subjects comprise an input transducer and a separate output transducer. The input transducer will include a light source for generating a light signal in response to either ambient sound or an external electronic sound signal. The output transducer will comprise a light-responsive transducer component which is adapted to receive light from the input transducer. The output transducer component will vibrate in response to the light input and produce vibrations in a component of a subject's hearing transduction pathway, such as the tympanic membrane, a bone in the ossicular chain, or directly on the cochlea, in order to produce neural signals representative of the original sound.