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US 2006/0233412 A1Published application
Microphone apparatus for a hearing aid
AssigneeSiemens Audiologische Technik GmbH
InventorsTorsten Niederdrank, Joseph Sauer, Markus Trautner, Christian Weistenhofer
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Abstract
Hearing aids are to be further miniaturized and simplified in terms of their manufacture. Provision is made for this purpose for the microphone facility for a hearing aid to be manufactured from at least one silicon microphone, said silicon microphone being attached to a MID plastic carrier (Molded Interconnected Device). This plastic carrier then features the double functionality of a microphone housing segment and a printed circuit board.
Claims9
-8. (canceled)
A microphone apparatus for a hearing aid, comprising:
- at least one silicon microphone having a microphone housing;
- and
- an MID plastic carrier at least partially integrated into the microphone housing, the MID plastic carried sized and configured as a printed circuit board for establishing a contact with the at least one silicon microphone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.