Adjustable hearing protection device
AssigneeArjen De Jong
InventorsArjen Teake De Jong, Richard Vincent Armin De Jong
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Abstract
An adjustable hearing protection device is provided for arranging in or on the ear. The hearing protection device includes a housing with an acoustic entrance opening, an insertion part for inserting into an auditory canal of the ear extending from the housing with an acoustic exit opening oriented toward the interior of the auditory canal, and adjusting means for adjusting the hearing protection device to one of at least two acoustic adjustment positions. Each acoustic adjustment position sets one of a number of acoustic couplings between the entrance opening and the exit opening.
Claims18
An adjustable hearing protection device for arranging in and/or on an ear, the hearing protection device comprising:
- a housing with an acoustic entrance opening and having a center line, an insertion part for inserting into an auditory canal of an ear extending from the housing with an acoustic exit opening oriented toward an interior of the auditory canal, and an adjuster configured to adjust the hearing protection device to one of at least two acoustic adjustment positions, wherein each acoustic adjustment position sets an acoustic coupling of a plurality of acoustic couplings between the acoustic entrance opening and the acoustic exit opening, wherein the adjuster comprises a ring shaped operator with a rotation center line, and wherein a center line of the insertion part is arranged eccentric from the center line of the housing, the insertion part having a beginning extending from a position that is eccentric relative to the center line of the housing and an ending that is eccentric relative to the center line of the housing further away than the beginning of the insertion part from the center line of the housing.
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