SELF FORMING IN-THE-EAR HEARING AID WITH CONICAL STENT
| Autor: | Edward J. Desporte, Brian Tanner, Gregory R. Siegle, Roger P. Juneau, Michael W. Major |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
| Předmět: |
Hearing aid
Sound (medical instrument) Acoustics and Ultrasonics Computer science medicine.medical_treatment Acoustics Stent Conical surface surgical procedures operative medicine.anatomical_structure Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) cardiovascular system otorhinolaryngologic diseases medicine Tube (fluid conveyance) cardiovascular diseases Ear canal health care economics and organizations |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 129:1139 |
| ISSN: | 0001-4966 |
| DOI: | 10.1121/1.3561601 |
| Popis: | A hearing aid body is provided that contains electronic hearing aid components and that is attachable to the user's body outside the ear canal. A conduit connects the hearing aid body to the flexible plug. The conduit enables sound emitted by the hearing aid to travel via the conduit to the flexible plug so that the user's able to hear a sound that is amplified by the hearing aid and received by the plug via the conduit. The conduit can be a flexible hollow tube or an electronic conduit that transmit electrical signals between the hearing aid and the plug. A stent embedded in the plug is provided, the stent having a first smaller diameter at a temperature below body temperature and being expandable to a second greater diameter when subjected to the user's body temperature, such as the temperature in the ear canal of a user. |
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