Hearing prosthesis system having interchangeable housings
AssigneeCochlear Limited
InventorsGunther Van Der Borght, Jan Janssen
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Abstract
A system, including a first housing containing a speech processor that receives signals output by a microphone of the hearing prosthesis, a second housing removably connectable to the first housing at a bottom of the first housing, the bottom being at a first end of the first housing that is a wider end relative to a second end of the first housing opposite the first end and a first device removably connectable to the first housing when the second housing is disconnected from the first housing, wherein the first housing is part of a behind-the-ear (BTE) device, the second housing is part of a second device, and the system is a cochlear implant hearing prosthesis system.
Claims30
A system, comprising:
- a first housing containing a speech processor that receives signals output by a microphone of the system;
- a second housing removably connectable to the first housing at a bottom of the first housing, the bottom being at a first end of the first housing that is a wider end relative to a second end of the first housing opposite the first end;
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- a first device removably connectable to the first housing when the second housing is disconnected from the first housing, wherein
- the first housing is part of a behind-the-ear (BTE) device,
- the second housing is part of a second device, and
- the system is a cochlear implant hearing prosthesis system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.