Open fit canal hearing device

31) A hearing device adapted for insertion substantially within the ear canal said device including a case containing at least a power source, and a microphone said hearing device also having a receiver element affixed to said case and in communication with an acoustic passageway terminating at a tip which is directed towards the wearer's inner ear wherein

• said case made smaller and substantially non-conformal to a wearer's ear canal in its mounted position to form an open passageway between the case and the ear canal along the length of said case,
• a flexible mounting insert attached to a tip portion of said case to substantially maintain said hearing device in a mounted position,
• said flexible mounting insert provided with openings maintaining an open area in said mounted position, thereby creating a sound path extending through the openings maintaining the open area in the flexible mounting insert and through said open passageway formed between the ear canal and said case along the length of said case, the sound path separate and spaced from the acoustical passageway terminating at the tip,
• wherein an internal vent pathway extending from the vicinity of said tip to an opening in the face plate of said hearing aid is excluded.

51) A hearing device adapted for insertion substantially within the ear canal said device including a case containing at least a power source, and a microphone said hearing device also having a receiver element affixed to said case and in communication with an acoustic passageway terminating at a tip which is directed towards the wearer's inner ear wherein

• said case made smaller and substantially non-conformal to a wearer's ear canal in its mounted position to form an open passageway between the case and the ear canal along the length of said case,
• a flexible mounting insert attached to a tip portion of said case to substantially maintain said hearing device in a mounted position,
• said flexible mounting insert provided with openings maintaining an open area in said mounted position, thereby creating a sound path extending from said tip through said open passageway formed between the ear canal and said case along the length of said case,
• wherein an internal vent pathway extending from the vicinity of said tip to an opening in the face plate of said hearing aid is excluded.