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US 2004/0069560 A1Published application
Method for manufacturing an ear device and ear device
AssigneePhonak AG
InventorChristoph Widmer
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Abstract
A hearing device, which is to be applied to an area of an individual's ear, is manufactured in that the skin of that application area is first analyzed and the outer surface area of the hearing device is adapted to the characteristics of that skin, thereby taking into account the result of said analyzing. Analyzing may preferably be directed on characteristics of visual appearance, surface structure, chemical surface characteristics, mechanical behavior and state of health of such skin.
Claims6
A method for manufacturing a hearing device having to be applied to an application area of an individual's ear, said method comprising:
- analyzing the skin of individual's application area, thereby generating an analyzing result,
- conceiving an outer surface area of said hearing device as a function of at least a part of said analyzing result.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.