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US 4,918,757 AGranted
Hearing aid headband support
OwnerGwen V. Janssen, Roy C. Rowlandinventors
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Abstract
In a hearing aid support, an elongated adjustable headband surrounds the head from the forehead hairline in the vicinity of the ears to the nape of the neck. Strip forming slits in the headband at the predetermined position of the skull bone support a bone conduction oscillator to make contact with the mastoid bone.
Claims4
A hearing aid support, comprising:
- an elongated flexible headband having a length capable of surrounding a user's head from the forehead hairline across the position of the mastoid bones to the nape of the neck in end overlapping relation and having a width selected in accordance with the dimensions of a hearing aid to be supported;
- means including a tube or patch strip securing a bone conduction oscillator or air receiver hearing aid to said headband in a manner for contact between the oscillator and the user's skull bone,
- said headband having a plurality of longitudinal parallel spaced-apart slits at the position of the mastoid bone forming a lateral strip on either side of a center strip,
- the tube being resilient, flexible and coextensive with the headband width and transversely threaded through the headband slits and gripped by the strips;
- and,
- a hearing aid unit within the bore of said tube.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.