Ear canal device retention means
AssigneeOticon A/S
InventorClaus Wurfel
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Abstract
The invention regards an ear canal device and a retainer strip, whereby the ear canal device has a distal part for extending into the ear canal and facing the tympanic membrane and a proximal part extending towards the ear canal opening, wherein the proximal part of the ear canal device comprises an opening extending transversely through the ear canal device, and where a retaining strip is arranged with a first end thereof arranged to be fastened in the opening and a second end arranged to lie resiliently against the inside of the concha for exerting a retaining force on the ear canal device.
Claims6
Ear canal device and a retainer strip, whereby the ear canal device has a distal part for extending into an ear canal and facing a tympanic membrane and a proximal part extending towards an opening of the ear canal, wherein the proximal part of the ear canal device comprises an opening, and where a retaining strip has a first end thereof arranged to be fastened in the opening and a second end arranged to lie resiliently against the inside of the concha for exerting a retaining force on the ear canal device.
Ear canal device and retainer strip as claimed in 2, whereby the strip part adjacent to the knob and/or the opening is angled with respect to the length direction of the canal device such that the strip will be angled outwardly from the ear canal once the canal device and strip are arranged within the ear canal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.