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US 11,109,168 B2Granted
External device of prosthesis connector
AssigneeCochlear Limited
InventorsEddie Sze Chuen Chan, Tadeusz Jurkiewicz
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Abstract
An external device of a prosthesis, including an electronics component, which can be a sound processor of a hearing prosthesis, and a power component, which can be a battery, the power component being removably attached to the electronics component, wherein the BTE device is configured with electrostatic discharge protection between the electronics component and the power component.
Claims25
A behind-the-ear (BTE) device, comprising:
- an electronics component;
- and
- a power component, removably attached to the electronics component, wherein
- the BTE device is configured with an environmental barrier at a general interface between the electronics component and the power component, wherein at least one of:
- (i) the BTE device includes a plug and a moisture resistant seal, the electronics component and the power component are configured to rotate relative to one another to removably connect the power component to the electronics component, and the plug slides along a surface of the moisture-resistant seal during the rotation;
- or
- (ii) the power component includes a planar body from which a crater-like component rises, the crater-like component including a crater wall and a central peak in which a first electrical contact is located, the crater wall surrounding the central peak, and a second contact is located between the crater wall and the central peak, the second contact being of an opposite polarity than the first contact.
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A behind-the-ear (BTE) device, comprising:
- an electronics component;
- and
- a power component, removably attached to the electronics component, wherein
- the BTE device is configured with an environmental barrier at a general interface between the electronics component and the power component, wherein
- the power component includes a positive terminal and a negative terminal of a battery,
- the electronics component includes a first contact and a second contact electrically isolated from the first contact,
- the first contact is configured to be in electrical contact with the positive terminal and the second contact is configured to be in electrical contact with the negative terminal when the power component is fully attached to the electronics component, and
- at least one of:
- at least one of the negative terminal or the second contact is biased in a lateral direction of the respective BTE device component so as to provide give in the lateral direction when the components are attached to one another to enable the first contact to come into electrical contact with the positive terminal;
- or
- at least one of the negative terminal or the second contact is biased in a longitudinal direction of the respective BTE device component so as to provide give in the longitudinal direction when the components are attached to one another to enable the first contact to come into electrical contact with the positive terminal.
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A behind-the-ear (BTE) device, comprising:
- an electronics component;
- and
- a power component, removably attached to the electronics component, wherein the BTE device is configured with an environmental barrier at a general interface between the electronics component and the power component, wherein
- the power component has a height that is about that of a height of the electronics component when measured in the same direction as the height of the electronics component, wherein the heights are measured in a vertical direction when the BTE device is worn behind the ear of a recipient, and
- the BTE includes an earhook, a tip of the earhook being located below a plane extending normal to the same direction as the height of the electronics component, the plane being located at a location where the electronics component meets the BTE device when viewed from the outside, wherein the electronics component is located above the plane.
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