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US 9,071,894 B2Granted
Hearing protection system
AssigneeVivonics, Inc.
InventorsAnna M Galea, Eric Louis, Kristen J. LeRoy
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Abstract
A hearing protection system including a detection subsystem configured to determine bone conducted sound vibrations and one or more actuators placed proximate a predetermined location on the skull of a user configured to generate cancellation vibrations out of phase with the bone conducted sound vibrations to mitigate the effect of bone conducted sound vibrations on the middle and/or inner ear of a user.
Claims19
A hearing protection system comprising:
- a detection subsystem configured to determine bone conducted sound vibrations;
- and
- one or more actuators placed proximate a predetermined location on the skull of a user configured to generate cancellation vibrations out of phase with the bone conducted sound vibrations to mitigate the effect of bone conducted sound vibrations on the middle and/or inner ear of a user.
A method of providing hearing protection to bone conducted sound vibrations, the method comprising:
- determining bone conducted sound vibrations;
- and
- generating cancellation vibrations out of phase with the bone conducted sound vibrations to mitigate the effect of bone conducted sound vibrations on the middle and/or inner ear of a user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.