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US 2010/0166241 A1Published application
Hearing aid ear dome
OwnerGuillermo L. Sabioinventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an ear tip for the end of the tube coupling the hearing aid receiver to the ear canal of a receiver wearing the hearing aid. The ear tip has variable openings therethrough for adjusting and reducing the occlusion effect in the ear canal. The ear tip may be connected to a sound tube from a receiver mounted in the hearing aid or may have the receiver mounted directly within the ear tip for insertion in the ear canal.
Claims9
An ear tip for a hearing aid sound output for insertion into a person's ear comprising:
- an ear tip inner dome having a plurality of spaced openings therearound;
- an ear tip outer dome having a hearing aid sound output bore and having a plurality of spaced openings spaced therearound, said outer dome being rotatably mounted over said inner dome and positioned to rotate the outer dome plurality of spaced openings relative to said inner dome plurality of spaced openings for varying the overlapping of the plurality of inner and outer domes and the openings therethrough;
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- means for coupling said ear tip outer dome sound output bore to a hearing aid;
- whereby a hearing aid ear tip has adjustable openings therethrough.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.