US 2020/0221238 A1Published application

In-ear receiver

AssigneeUSound GmbH

InventorsFerruccio Bottoni, Andrea Rusconi Clerici Beltrami

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Abstract

An in-ear receiver can be used in a headset and/or hearing aid and includes a housing in which at least one ear canal section is configured to be inserted into an ear canal of a wearer when the in-ear receiver is used as intended. The housing defines at least one outer contour that is configured with at least in one section adapted to the ear canal of the wearer. The in-ear receiver includes a sound transducer arranged in the housing, and at least one resonant cavity, which is formed in the housing and is divided by the sound transducer into a front volume and a rear volume. The sound transducer is a MEMS sound transducer, and the front volume and/or the rear volume have/has an inner contour adapted to the ear canal.

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Dependent claims

An in-ear receiver for a headset and/or hearing aid, the in-ear receiver comprising:

a housing, which includes an ear canal section, which is configured to be inserted into an ear canal of a wearer when the in-ear receiver is used as intended, wherein the ear canal section includes a proximal section that elongates about a proximal axis, wherein the ear canal section defines an outer contour section that elongates about a distal axis that is non-parallel to the proximal axis:
a sound transducer arranged in the housing, and
a resonant cavity, which is formed in the housing and is divided by the sound transducer into a front volume and a rear volume,
wherein the sound transducer is a MEMS sound transducer, and the front volume and/or the rear volume is at least partial defined by an inner contour.

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Facts

Application: 16/624,552Filed 14 Jun 2018
Priority: DE 10 2017 114 008.523 Jun 2017
Published: 9 Jul 2020
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Classification27 codes

H04R 25/652
Housing parts, e.g. shells, tips or moulds, or their manufacture: ear tips; Ear moulds
H04R 1/1016
Earpieces; Attachments therefor ; Earphones; Monophonic headphones: earpieces of the intra-aural type
H04R 1/1058
Earpieces; Attachments therefor ; Earphones; Monophonic headphones: manufacture or assembly
H04R 1/2807
Transducer mountings or enclosures modified by provision of mechanical or acoustic impedances, e.g. resonator, damping means: enclosures…

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