Ear piece for a hearing device
AssigneeSonova AG
InventorMarkus Leuthold
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Abstract
An ear piece for a hearing device includes one of two, three four or more shapes, wherein the ear piece comprises a tube having a first bend separating two essentially straight sections of the tube which smoothly merge into one another at the first bend, wherein each section has a respective centerline, wherein the centerlines enclose an angle between them, wherein the angle is in a range of 41° to 58°, wherein the centerlines meet at an intersection point lying within an bend plane having a plane area confined by the tube, and wherein the bend plane bisects the angle with a tolerance range of 5% and/or is rotated within the tube about the intersection point so as to minimize the plane area.
Claims13
A set comprising four or more ear pieces for a hearing device for one ear of a user, wherein each ear piece has one of two, three, four or more shapes different from the shape of any other ear piece of the set, wherein the ear pieces comprise a tube having a first bend separating two essentially straight sections of the tube which smoothly merge into one another at the first bend, wherein each section has a respective centerline,
- wherein the shapes of each of the four or more ear pieces are determined based on a statistical shape model,
- wherein the centerlines enclose an angle between them, wherein the angle is in a range of 41° to 58°,
- wherein the centerlines meet at an intersection point lying within a bend plane having a plane area confined by the tube,
- wherein the bend plane bisects the angle with a tolerance range of 5% and/or is rotated within the tube about the intersection point so as to minimize the plane area,
- wherein the plane area is in the range of
- 44 mm2 to 53 mm2 for a first shape,
- 53 mm2 to 67 mm2 for a second shape,
- 65 mm2 to 83 mm2 for a third shape, and
- 73 mm2 to 92 mm2 for a fourth shape, and
- wherein the angle is in the range of
- 42° to 47° for the first shape,
- 51° to 58° for the second shape,
- 41° to 46° for the third shape, and
- 41° to 46° for the fourth shape.
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