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US 11,638,108 B2Granted
Canal hearing devices with sound port contaminant guards
AssigneeSonova AG
InventorsFrank Wang, Michael Au, Yashvant Venkatakrishnan, Xiuming Zhu, Roland Kern, Simone Kneipp, Paul Wagner
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Abstract
A hearing device including a housing, a receiver within the housing, and a contaminant guard having a guard sound port and one or both of an outer contaminant receptacle, which is located outward of the guard sound port and that extends around the guard sound port, and an inner contaminant receptacle, which that is located on the central axis of the guard sound port and operably connected to a location outward of the guard sound port.
Claims16
A hearing device, comprising:
- a housing;
- a receiver within the housing and including a receiver sound port;
- and
- a contaminant guard, associated with the receiver sound port, including
- a guard sound port through which sound from the receiver sound port exits the contaminant guard,
- an inner wall located outward of the guard sound port, an outer wall, and an end wall, and
- an outer contaminant receptacle, defined by the inner wall, the outer wall, and the end wall, that is located outward of the guard sound port, that extends around the guard sound port and that has a closed end at the end wall and an open end that is medial of the closed end.
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A hearing device, comprising:
- a housing;
- a receiver within the housing and including a receiver sound port;
- and
- a contaminant guard, associated with the receiver sound port, including a guard sound port, an outer contaminant receptacle that is located outward of the guard sound port and that extends around the guard sound port, and an inner contaminant receptacle that is located inward of the outer contaminant receptacle and is connected to the outer contaminant receptacle by at least one channel that extends across a portion of the guard sound port.
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A hearing device, comprising:
- a housing;
- a receiver within the housing and including a receiver sound port;
- and
- a contaminant guard, associated with the receiver sound port, including a guard sound port that defines a central axis, an inner contaminant receptacle that is located on the central axis, an outer contaminant receptacle that is located outward of the guard sound port, and at least one channel that extends from the inner contaminant receptacle to the outer contaminant receptacle.
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