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公开(公告)号:US11974088B2
公开(公告)日:2024-04-30
申请号:US17553722
申请日:2021-12-16
发明人: Kyle Olson , Sidney A. Higgins , Dustin Degen
CPC分类号: H04R1/1041 , G06F3/015 , G06F3/0416 , H04R1/1025
摘要: An ear-worn electronic device comprises a housing configured to be worn in, at or about an ear of a wearer. Audio processing circuitry is disposed in or supported by the housing and comprises one or more microphones and a speaker or a receiver. A controller is disposed in the housing and coupled to the audio processing circuity. A rechargeable power source and charging circuitry are disposed in the housing. The charging circuitry is coupled to the controller and comprises first and second charge contacts situated at a wall of the housing. A user-actuatable control is coupled to the controller and comprises a touch sensor. The touch sensor comprises the first and second charge contacts.
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公开(公告)号:US20240031748A1
公开(公告)日:2024-01-25
申请号:US18366967
申请日:2023-08-08
发明人: Douglas F. Link , David Prchal , Sidney A. Higgins
IPC分类号: H04R25/00
CPC分类号: H04R25/609 , H04R25/65 , H04R25/604 , H04R25/603
摘要: A hearing aid comprising a microphone, a receiver, hearing aid electronics coupled to the microphone and the receiver, and conductive traces overlaying an insulator, the conductive traces configured to interconnect the hearing aid electronics and to follow non-planar contours of the insulator. Examples are provided wherein the insulator includes a hearing aid housing.
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公开(公告)号:US20230300517A1
公开(公告)日:2023-09-21
申请号:US18121317
申请日:2023-03-14
CPC分类号: H04R1/1083 , H04R1/1016 , H04R1/083 , H04R2460/01
摘要: Various embodiments of a hearing device and a system including such device are disclosed. The hearing device can include an enclosure having a front housing and a rear housing, and an isolator disposed between the front housing and the rear housing. The isolator includes a body and a sleeve disposed on the body. The front housing and the rear housing are connected to the sleeve of the isolator. The device further includes a microphone disposed in the front housing, a receiver disposed in the rear housing, an acoustic port that extends through the isolator body between the receiver and an opening disposed in a first end of the front housing, and a microphone port that extends between the microphone and the opening disposed in the first end of the front housing.
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公开(公告)号:US20220150634A1
公开(公告)日:2022-05-12
申请号:US17585166
申请日:2022-01-26
摘要: A hearing assistance system and method are described herein. The system includes a first ear-worn device, a second ear-worn device, and a case. The system is configured to detect a vibration sequence at an IMU and decide whether to pair wireless communication devices of the first and second ear-worn devices based on the vibration sequence detected at the IMU.
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公开(公告)号:US11076245B2
公开(公告)日:2021-07-27
申请号:US16384245
申请日:2019-04-15
发明人: Sidney A. Higgins , Wei Li Lin , David Tourtelotte
摘要: Disclosed herein, among other things, are apparatus and methods to provide improved connections for components of hearing assistance devices. Various embodiments include an apparatus including a receiver case configured to house a hearing assistance device receiver, the receiver case including a spherical receiver spout having an opening. The apparatus also includes a receptacle housing having a spherical socket adapted to mate with the spherical receiver spout to form a ball and socket connection. An insert within the spherical socket is configured to establish a retained interference fit with the opening of the receiver spout when the connection is formed so as to create an acoustic seal therebetween.
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公开(公告)号:US11064304B2
公开(公告)日:2021-07-13
申请号:US16599524
申请日:2019-10-11
发明人: Douglas F. Link , David Prchal , Sidney A. Higgins
IPC分类号: H04R25/00
摘要: A hearing aid comprising a microphone, a receiver, hearing aid electronics coupled to the microphone and the receiver, and conductive traces overlaying an insulator, the conductive traces configured to interconnect the hearing aid electronics and to follow non-planar contours of the insulator. Examples are provided wherein the insulator includes a hearing aid housing.
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公开(公告)号:US10911878B2
公开(公告)日:2021-02-02
申请号:US16230024
申请日:2018-12-21
发明人: Sidney A. Higgins , Scott Timmerman , Dustin Degen , Jodi Rickheim , Brian Dahl , Christopher Frank Filo , Kenneth Duane Gjerde, Jr.
摘要: An ear-wearable device is described that includes a plurality of modules that mate together forming a physical outer shell of the ear-wearable device. Each module from the plurality of modules is associated with a different, corresponding feature of the ear-wearable device and each module from the plurality of modules includes a respective physical portion that comprises a different, corresponding part of the outer shell. In addition, each module from the plurality of modules shares a physical interface with at least one other module from the plurality of modules.
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公开(公告)号:US10894194B2
公开(公告)日:2021-01-19
申请号:US15690001
申请日:2017-08-29
摘要: A computing system wirelessly receives data from an ear-wearable device and determines, based on the data received from the ear-wearable device, a current position of the ear-wearable device. Additionally, the computing system determines, based on the current position of the ear-wearable device and data regarding a golf course, golf advice data that provides a recommendation regarding play of the golf course. Furthermore, the computing system wirelessly sends audio data to the ear-wearable device. The audio data represents soundwaves of a vocalization of the golf advice data.
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公开(公告)号:US20200186903A1
公开(公告)日:2020-06-11
申请号:US16213719
申请日:2018-12-07
摘要: An ear-wearable device includes a shell shaped for wearing in a user's ear. The shell comprises a tunnel wall shaped to define a tunnel that passes through the ear-wearable device. The tunnel wall defines one or more contact pin apertures through which distal ends of two or more contact pins pass. One or more electrical components are encased within the shell. The contact pins are conductors from the one or more electrical components. The distal ends of the contact pins are positioned to make electrical contact with terminals of a cable plug that is removably inserted into the tunnel.
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公开(公告)号:US20190166439A1
公开(公告)日:2019-05-30
申请号:US16264972
申请日:2019-02-01
摘要: Photoactive cleaning hearing assistance devices and methods of cleaning hearing assistance devices are described. Photoactive nanoparticles may be disposed on or in the hearing assistance devices. The photoactive nanoparticles provide a localized surface plasmon resonance effect when illuminated with light.
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