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US 12,568,339 B2Granted
Curved acoustic path for hearing instruments
AssigneeStarkey Laboratories, Inc.
InventorsGanesh Borra, Babak Talebanpour, Ryan Owens, Gregory John Haubrich
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Abstract
A hearing instrument comprises: a microphone; a housing that defines an opening that leads to the microphone; a button disposed on the housing; and a ring member configured to be disposed within a recess defined in the housing and to define a perimeter around the button, wherein: the ring member defining an acoustic path that has a non-straight segment, the acoustic path has an external port and an internal port, and the internal port is configured to be aligned with the microphone opening of the housing.
Claims8
A hearing instrument comprising:
- a microphone;
- a housing that defines an opening that leads to the microphone;
- a button disposed on the housing;
- and
- a ring member configured to be disposed within a recess defined in the housing and to define a perimeter around the button, wherein:
- the ring member defines an acoustic path that has a non-straight segment,
- the acoustic path has an external port and an internal port,
- the acoustic path is configured to conduct sound from the external port to the internal port, and
- the internal port is configured to be aligned with the opening that leads to the microphone.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.