Hearing instrument system
AssigneeSivantos Pte. Ltd.
InventorsBernd MEISTER, Sascha BILERT, Tobias WURZBACHER
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Abstract
A hearing instrument system has a hearing instrument with a housing and at least one loudspeaker arranged in the housing connected to an environment of the housing via a sound conduction channel. The hearing instrument system further has a controller configured to ascertain whether at least one starting condition for initiating a cleaning mode for the sound conduction channel is present. If the or one of multiple, as appropriate, starting conditions is present, initiate the cleaning mode, and during the cleaning mode, output an audio signal with a specified waveform with a varying period using the loudspeaker.
Claims20
A hearing instrument system, comprising:
- a hearing instrument;
- a sound conduction channel;
- at least one loudspeaker acoustically connected to an environment of said hearing instrument via said sound conduction channel;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- ascertain whether at least one starting condition for initiating a cleaning mode for said sound conduction channel is present;
- initiate the cleaning mode upon the at least one starting condition being present;
- and
- output an audio signal with a waveform using said at least one loudspeaker during the cleaning mode, and varying a period of the waveform while the audio signal is output.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.