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US 8,509,461 B2Granted
Bone conduction devices generating tangentially-directed mechanical force using a rotationally moving mass
AssigneeCochlear Limited
InventorJohn L. Parker
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Abstract
A bone conduction device, comprising: a sound input element configured to receive an acoustic sound signal; an electronics module configured generate an electrical signal representing said acoustic sound signal; and a transducer, comprising a mass configured to move in a rotational direction, configured to generate a vibrational force in a tangential direction with respect to a recipient's bone.
Claims24
A bone conduction device, comprising:
- a sound input element configured to receive an acoustic sound signal;
- an electronics module configured generate an electrical signal representing said acoustic sound signal;
- and
- a transducer, comprising a mass, configured to generate a rotational vibrational force that is tangential with respect to a surface of a recipient's bone.
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A bone conduction device having an anchor, comprising:
- means for forming a mechanical coupling between the bone conduction device and the recipient's bone;
- means for receiving an electrical signal representative of an acoustic sound signal;
- means for generating a rotational vibrational force representative of the received electrical signal, wherein the vibrational force is directed in a tangential direction with respect to the recipient's bone;
- and
- means for delivering said vibrational force to the recipient's bone via the formed mechanical coupling.
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A bone conduction device, comprising:
- a mass configured to rotate about an axis, wherein
- the bone conduction device is configured to adjust at least one of a location, relative to another component of the bone conduction device, of the axis about which the mass rotates, and a rotational velocity of the mass, thereby producing vibrations to evoke a hearing percept in a recipient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.