Antenna designs for hearing instruments
AssigneeStarkey Laboratories, Inc.
InventorsEzdeen Elghannai, Casey Murray, Ganesh Borra
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Abstract
A hearing instrument comprises a housing that defines a cavity; a printed circuit board (PCB) disposed within the cavity; an antenna that comprises an internal portion and an external portion, wherein a first location on the internal portion of the antenna is disposed within the cavity and is physically connected to the PCB and a different second location on the internal portion of the antenna is physically connected to the external portion of the antenna; and a cable protruding from the housing and configured for use as a handle for removal of the hearing instrument from an ear of a user, wherein the cable encloses the external portion of the antenna.
Claims10
A hearing instrument comprising:
- a housing that defines a cavity;
- a printed circuit board (PCB) disposed within the cavity;
- an antenna that comprises an internal portion and an external portion, wherein a first location on the internal portion of the antenna is disposed within the cavity and is physically connected to the PCB and a different second location on the internal portion of the antenna is physically connected to the external portion of the antenna;
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- a cable protruding from the housing and configured for use as a handle for removal of the hearing instrument from an ear of a user, wherein the cable encloses the external portion of the antenna, wherein the internal portion of the antenna comprises a first segment and a second segment, the first segment extending along an inner surface of a superior side of the housing from the first location to a junction with the second segment, the second segment extending along an inner surface of an anterior side of the housing and an inner surface of an inferior side of the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.