Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Input converter for a hearing aid and signal conversion method
- Patent Title (中): 用于助听器和信号转换方法的输入转换器
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Application No.: US13905301Application Date: 2013-05-30
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Publication No.: US09041574B2Publication Date: 2015-05-26
- Inventor: Niels Ole Knudsen
- Applicant: Widex A/S
- Applicant Address: DK Lynge
- Assignee: Widex A/S
- Current Assignee: Widex A/S
- Current Assignee Address: DK Lynge
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Main IPC: H03M3/00
- IPC: H03M3/00 ; H03M1/00 ; H04R25/00 ; H03M1/12

Abstract:
In order to minimize noise and current consumption in a hearing aid, an input converter including a first voltage transformer and an analog-to-digital converter of the delta-sigma type for a hearing aid is devised. The analog-to-digital converter of the input converter has an input stage, an output stage, and a feedback loop, and the input stage includes an amplifier (QA) and an integrator (RLF). The first voltage transformer (IT) has a transformation ratio such that it provides an output voltage larger than the input voltage and is placed in the input converter upstream of the input stage. A second voltage transformer (OT) having a transformation ratio such that it provides an output voltage larger than the input voltage, is optionally placed in the feedback loop of the converter. The voltage transformers (IT, OT) are switched-capacitor voltage transformers, each transformer (IT, OT) having at least two capacitors (Ca, Cb, Cc, Cd). The invention further provides a method of converting an analog signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130249726A1 INPUT CONVERTER FOR A HEARING AID AND SIGNAL CONVERSION METHOD Public/Granted day:2013-09-26
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