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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20070280495 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AUDIO SIGNALS Various methods and apparatus for processing audio signals are disclosed herein. The assembly may be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a removable oral appliance to form a hearing aid assembly. Such an oral appliance may be a custom-made device which... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070280493 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AUDIO SIGNALS Various methods and apparatus for processing audio signals are disclosed herein. The assembly may be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a removable oral appliance to form a hearing aid assembly. Such an oral appliance may be a custom-made device which... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070280491 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AUDIO SIGNALS Various methods and apparatus for processing audio signals are disclosed herein. The assembly may be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a removable oral appliance to form a hearing aid assembly. Such an oral appliance may be a custom-made device which... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070274551 | Implantable Bone-Vibrating Hearing Aid The present invention proposes an implantable bone-vibrating hearing aid, including a transmitting coil for receiving an audio-converted signal and generating a corresponding magnetic field, a magnetic conducting element for sensing the corresponding magnetic filed to g... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070160239 | Bone conduction device and tympanum thereof The object is to provide a bone conduction device and its tympanum, wherein the bone conduction device can be efficiently mounted without generating a dead space in a case having a limited installation space such as a cellular phone's case having a large display screen.... | 07/12/2007 |
| 20070053536 | Hearing aid system A bone conduction hearing aid system for generating bone conduction vibrations is disclosed. The bone conduction hearing aid system has an external hearing aid unit with a vibrator and a skin contact pressure plate. The skin contact pressure plate is placed on an outsid... | 03/08/2007 |
| 20060233409 | Hearing aid The supply to people with a hearing impairment is to be improved. A hearing aid device is provided for this purpose which has at least two output signal transducers. Thus both an earpiece and a cochlear implant can be triggered, for example by common signal processor, v... | 10/19/2006 |
| 20060233410 | FIXATION ELEMENT FOR AN IMPLANTABLE MICROPHONE A fixation element for an implantable microphone is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment the fixation element comprises an essentially cylindrical portion adapted to be inserted into a bore which crosses a wall of the auditory canal of a user, said cylindrical portion, ... | 10/19/2006 |
| 20060126874 | Hearing-aid anchoring element An anchoring system for anchoring a percutaneous attachment for a direct bone-conduction hearing-aid or an outer ear prosthesis to the skull bone, comprising a fixture portion, the fixture portion having a threaded portion. A flange is disposed at one end of the fixture... | 06/15/2006 |
| 20060093175 | Hearing-aid anchoring element A hearing aid anchoring fixture (104) for anchoring a direct bone conduction hearing aid (108) to the skull bone (106), comprising a threaded portion (110) that has at least one cutting edge (118). Each cutting edge (118) has an... | 05/04/2006 |
| 20060056649 | Bone conduction hearing assistance device A bone conduction hearing aid includes an in-the-ear (ITE) component and a behind-the-ear (BTE) component. A bone vibrator is carried by the ITE component and positioned in the concha of the ear when in use. A vibrationally conductive structural member of the ITE compon... | 03/16/2006 |
| 20060050913 | Hearing-aid interconnection system The hearing-aid interconnection system has a skin-penetrating hearing-aid abutment (2) and a fixture (4) anchored in a skull bone (6). A first press fit is formed between a first contact surface (8a) of the abutment and a first fixture... | 03/09/2006 |
| 20060045298 | Vibrator for bone-conduction hearing The vibrator system is for generating bone conduction vibrations. A magnet (8a) provides a static magnetic flux (φ1) that follows a first path. A bobbin (4a) is disposed at a center a vibrator (2). A housing (10) enc... | 03/02/2006 |
| 20060029246 | Voice communication device A voice sound transmitting unit having an earpiece that is adapted for insertion into the external auditory canal of a user, the earpiece having both a bone conduction sensor and an air conduction sensor. The bone conduction sensor is adapted to contact a portion of the... | 02/09/2006 |
| 20060023908 | Transducer for electromagnetic hearing devices A hearing system for producing audio signals perceptible to an individual. The hearing system includes a transducer having a surface adapted to attach to a middle-ear acoustic member of the individual, wherein the transducer is responsive to variations in a magnetic fie... | 02/02/2006 |
| 20050254672 | Bone conductive speaker A bone conductive speaker is downsized without causing any loss in efficiency, simple in construction low in cost, and comprises yoke (2), magnet (3) disposed in a central area of the yoke, and voice coil (4) wound on the magnet. The yoke has its pe... | 11/17/2005 |
| 20050222487 | Low acceleration sensitivity microphone An implanted microphone is provided that has reduced sensitivity to vibration and attendant acceleration forces. In this regard, the microphone differentiates between the desirable and undesirable components of a transcutaneously received signal. More specifically, the ... | 10/06/2005 |
| 20050196008 | Method and apparatus for tooth bone conduction microphone A two-way communication system particularly valuable for noisy environments where a user has a tooth bone conduction microphone in his mouth normally controlled by a tongue switch that transmits an electrical signal representing speech to a retransmit module usually wor... | 09/08/2005 |
| 20050196009 | Earpiece with an inertial sensor A communication device includes an earpiece housing adapted for fitting to an ear of a user such that the earpiece does not block the canal, an inertial sensor operatively connected to the earpiece housing for sensing positional changes of the user's ears, a processor o... | 09/08/2005 |
| 20050078846 | External speech processor unit for an auditory prosthesis A speech processor unit (12) for a cochlear implant system. The speech processor unit (12) comprises a signal processor for processing incoming auditory signals and for forwarding processed signals to an implanted component (18) of the system, a mon... | 04/14/2005 |
| 20050069160 | Hearing aid-style anti-stuttering device A hearing aid-style anti-stuttering device, with a throat microphone to pick up the user's voice while rejecting background noise, and an FM wireless transmitter from the throat microphone to the hearing aid-style anti-stuttering device; or bonded to a tooth in the user... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050008179 | Fractal harmonic overtone mapping of speech and musical sounds An apparatus for signal processing based on an algorithm for representing harmonics in a fractal lattice. The apparatus includes a plurality of tuned segments, each tuned segment including a transceiver having an intrinsic resonant frequency the amplitude of the resonan... | 01/13/2005 |
