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US 2010/0137675 A1Published application
Bone conduction devices generating tangentially-directed mechanical force using a rotationally moving mass
AssigneeCochlear Limited
InventorJohn L. Parker
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Abstract
A bone conduction device, comprising: a sound input element configured to receive an acoustic sound signal; an electronics module configured generate an electrical signal representing said acoustic sound signal; and a transducer, comprising a mass configured to move in a rotational direction, configured to generate a vibrational force in a tangential direction with respect to a recipient's bone.
Claims24
A bone conduction device, comprising:
- a sound input element configured to receive an acoustic sound signal;
- an electronics module configured generate an electrical signal representing said acoustic sound signal;
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- a transducer, comprising a mass, configured to generate a rotational vibrational force that is tangential with respect to a surface of a recipient's bone.
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A method for rehabilitating the hearing of a recipient with a bone conduction device having an anchor, comprising:
- forming a mechanical coupling between the bone conduction device and the recipient's bone via the anchor;
- receiving an electrical signal representative of an acoustic sound signal;
- generating a vibrational force, using a mass, representative of the received electrical signal, wherein the vibrational force is tangential with respect to a surface of the recipient's bone;
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- delivering said vibrational forces to the recipient's bone via the formed coupling.
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A bone conduction device having an anchor, comprising:
- means for forming a mechanical coupling between the bone conduction device and the recipient's bone;
- means for receiving an electrical signal representative of an acoustic sound signal;
- means for generating a vibrational force representative of the received electrical signal, wherein the vibrational force is directed in a tangential direction with respect to the recipient's bone;
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- means for delivering said vibrational forces to the recipient's bone via the formed coupling.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.