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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110150258 | EXTERNAL EAR INSERT FOR HEARING COMPREHENSION ENHANCEMENT A simple hearing enhancement device that takes the normally adequately loud sound levels and optimizes selective frequency gain of the patient's ear passage to improve speech comprehension.... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110031059 | FOAM COMPOSITIONS WITH ENHANCED SOUND ATTENUATION Disclosed are foam compositions with enhanced sound attenuation characteristics for use in earpieces, for example, user-disposable foam members such as foam tips for sound control devices including sound transmission devices and earplugs in which a relationship between ... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20100307859 | ACOUSTIC DEVICE FOR LINEAR PERCEIVED-SOUND ATTENUATION The present invention relates to an acoustic device for linear perceived-sound attenuation, comprising a channel along which the sound propagates from an entry to an exit, characterized in that it comprises, combined so as to make the perceived sound undergo a linear at... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20090205900 | Hearing protection cap The present invention relates to an ear cap intended for use as hearing, the ear cap having a sound-reflecting outer shell and a liner of sound absorption materials. The ear cap is characterized by at least one sound-reflecting and vibration-damping weight element arran... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090101433 | INVERTIBLE EAR TIPS FOR AN EAR PIECE An ear piece for providing audio (e.g., from an electronic device) to the user is provided. The ear piece may include a compliant element operative to be inserted in the user's ear such that the compliant element deforms to retain the ear piece in the user's ear. The co... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090014014 | Ear Cup An ear cup (1) has a cup portion (I′) with a support surface (3), as well as a sealing device (4), which is placed against the support surface of the cup portion for bearing against a wearer's head in an area around an ear of the wearer. The seali... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20080128198 | SOUND-ATTENUATING EARMUFF HAVING ISOLATED DOUBLE-SHELL STRUCTURE An earmuff assembly with a double-shell structure is disclosed for use with a sound-attenuating circumaural headset. The earmuff assembly comprises a cup-shaped outer shell mounted on a resilient outer sealing ring and a cup-shaped inner shell mounted on a resilient inn... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20080041656 | Low-Cost, Programmable, Time-Limited Hearing Health aid Apparatus, Method of Use, and System for Programming Same A low-cost, programmable, time-limited hearing aid (104) and a means (102) to program the hearing aid with user-specific hearing-loss data (101) for the purpose of emulating the performance of a more permanent, but more costly, hearing aid device. T... | 02/21/2008 |
| 20080040116 | System for and Method of Providing Improved Intelligibility of Television Audio for the Hearing Impaired The present invention is a TV hearing system that generally includes an analog or digital TV broadcast signal feeding a hearing health interface that subsequently drives the input of a standard television. The hearing health interface further includes a receiver, a digi... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20070240931 | Mushroom-shaped push-in foam eartip for use with high-fidelity insert earphones Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a push-in eartip assembly. The push-in eartip assembly may include a mushroom-shaped foam tip. The push-in eartip assembly may also include a hollow tube extending through the center of the mushroom-shaped foam tip. A... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20060175722 | User disposable member for use within the ear canal and methods for manufacturing the same A user-disposable member for placement and retention within the auditory anatomy, such as an ear canal. The user-disposable member includes a polymeric foam material, wherein the user-disposable member has a first portion having a peripheral outer surface having a first... | 08/10/2006 |
| 20060171549 | Hearing aid eartip coupler system and method A hearing aid eartip coupler system and method is disclosed which permits interfacing existing hearing aids with a variety of high performance hearing aid eartips for use by patients with mild to moderate hearing loss. Conventional hearing aid earmolds connected to over... | 08/03/2006 |
| 20060151236 | Enhancing audio reinforcement systems and methods A system and method for an enhancing audio reinforcement system is claimed. The system provides a device comfortably mountable to the human head and consisting of a headband and at least one reflector that simulates a cupped hand over a listener's ear. The system is use... | 07/13/2006 |
| 20050257995 | System and method for providing passive noise reduction A passive noise reduction apparatus has a headset with at least one ear cup attached to the headset, the ear cup having an ear side and a shell side. An inner shell, having a cup side and an outer side, is mounted to and substantially covers the shell side of the ear cu... | 11/24/2005 |
| 20050232453 | Method and apparatus for modular hearing aid A method and apparatus for a modular hearing aid for a user having a hearing canal, including a housing adapted to fit within at least a portion of the hearing canal, and having at least one access port, a cover adapted for at least partially covering the at least one a... | 10/20/2005 |
| 20050217925 | Hearing protection device An ear hearing protection unit is preferably coupled with a conventional hat, such as a baseball cap, and preferred routing channels extend proximal to an ear of a wearer of the hat. ... | 10/06/2005 |
| 20050178610 | Swiveling sound-gathering ear guard for masks and helmets A portion of a mask or helmet covering a user's ear has an aperture covered by a sound-collecting and sound-transmissive protector swivelingly mounted thereon. The protector has a substantially parabolic reflector surface oriented substantially perpendicular to the prot... | 08/18/2005 |
| 20050141734 | Method for manufacturing an ear device and ear device An apparatus for manufacturing ear devices that are individualized for individual. Data of the three-dimensional shape of each individual's area of application for a haring device is provided. Individual shells for the hearing devices are construed by respectively depos... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050126845 | Attenuating foam insert and method for manufacture A shaped acoustic foam insert for use in improving the performance of circumaural hearing protectors is described. A foam block having a cross-section and shape is adapted to occupy the entire interior volume of an earcup of a circumaural hearing protector. The insert h... | 06/16/2005 |
