284results about "Earplugs" patented technology

Disclosed are a filter and a noise-reducing earplug, the noise-reducing earplug includes a filter, and the filter includes a shell, a flexible sound filtering block, and an adjustment pressing plate, wherein the shell is provided with a mounting recess and a sound outlet hole communicating with the mounting recess, the adjustment pressing plate is mounted in the mounting recess and forms a compression cavity with the mounting recess, the adjustment pressing plate is provided with sound inlet holes, the flexible sound filtering block is mounted in the compression cavity, the adjustment pressing plate contacts an end of the flexible sound filtering block away from the sound outlet hole, and the adjustment pressing plate is configured to adjust a volume of the compression cavity. The noise-reducing earplug provided in the present disclosure may adjust the noise-reducing effect; and a user may selectively filter external noise to different degrees as needed.

A wearable device may be worn in an ear of a user. The wearable device may include a biometric sensor that collects biometric information from the ear, and an environmental sensor that collects environmental information from the ear. The wearable device may receive the biometric information from the biometric sensor, and the environmental information from the environmental sensor, and send biofeedback determined from the biometric information, and an environmental condition determined from the environmental information, wirelessly to a communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

An earplug having a bamboo attenuator and a tapered body portion that includes a central shaft with bamboo attenuator disposed within and extending throughout an entirety of a hollow sheath, and contact structures which are flexible and have a successively smaller size moving from a lateral end of the tapered body portion to a medial end of the tapered body portion, and a stopper portion attached to the lateral end of the tapered body portion. The earplug provides passive, nonlinear attenuation of incoming sound to provide hearing protection to a user while allowing for comfortable use.

The subject technology disclosed herein may allow a device to provide guidance based on sound measurements, which may include crowd-sourced measurements of the sound level at various locations other than a current location of the user. The crowd-sourced measurements may be real time measurements and / or may be stored and / or indexed by time (day, time of day, week, month, etc.), type of activity at specific locations (happy hour, open-mic night, sports play-offs, etc.), or environmental context similar to other locations (touring band, protest, sporting event, etc.). The guidance based on the sound measurements may include a reminder notification to bring hearing protection to a location for which crowd-sourced sound level measurements have been obtained, before the user arrives at the location. The guidance may also, or alternatively, include a recommended location and / or a recommended route with a desired sound level, such as a quiet restaurant, or a quiet walking route.

An earplug for blocking sound and method of making the same, which includes a planar insert within an earplug of compressible slow recovery foam. A method of attenuating sound by inserting the earplug at an ear canal entry so that the planar insert is tactilely vertical, and pushing the earplug into the ear canal allowing the earplug to flex perpendicular to plana surfaces of the planar insert.

An ear insert 10 comprises a generally tubular core 12 with an inner wall defining a longitudinal channel 40 for guiding sound waves, from a first end 14 to a second, open, end 44. The inner wall defi

An external ear canal pressure regulation device including a fluid flow generator, an earpiece having an axial earpiece bore, and a valved conduit fluidicly coupled to the fluid flow generator and the axial earpiece bore, whereby the earpiece has a compliant earpiece external surface configured to sealably engage an external ear canal as a barrier between an external ear canal pressure and an ambient pressure.

The application discloses an eartip, an earphone device, an earphone housing and a hearbud housing device. The eartip can include an outer portion, an inner portion, and an encapsulated volume formed by the inner and outer portion, wherein the outer portion is designed to contact the ear canal, and wherein the inner portion is designed to fit upon a stent. In an alternative embodiment, the airtip can include an inverted body, wherein when the inverted body is at least partially folded on itself the inverted body is arranged to include a bulbous region sized for insertion in an ear canal, a cavity internal to the bulbous region that holds a gas, where increasing pressure on the bulbous region releases a portion of the gas.

Earplug insertion device comprising a magazine suitable for receiving compressible and expandable foam earplugs, a compression device in which a compressible and expandable earplug can be compressed lengthwise, and an earplug delivery device to insert the earplug from the magazine into the compression device and then into the ear canal.

Customizable hearing protection devices include a body portion. A channel is defined through the body portion. A sound modifying insert is removably inserted into an outer portion of the channel. An adapter insert is removably inserted into an inner portion of the channel. The devices further include an eartip mounted to a mounting portion of the adapter insert that protrudes from the proximal side of the body portion. The channel includes a middle portion connecting the outer portion and the inner portion. The body portion may further include a loop portion, into which an interchangeable chip may be removably inserted. The interchangeable chip may have an outward facing surface with customized indicia thereon.

The utility model relates to the technical field of earplugs, and provides a noise-reduction sound-insulation earplug, which is used for being placed in an ear canal to isolate external sound, and comprises a shell which is internally provided with a ventilation chamber and is provided with an interface communicated with the ventilation chamber; the ear cap is arranged at the position of the connector, a channel is formed in the ear cap, and when the noise reduction and sound insulation earplug is worn, the ventilation cavity is communicated with the ear canal through the connector and the channel in sequence; and the noise reduction reinforcing part is arranged in the ventilation cavity and / or the connector, and a zeolite material is contained in the noise reduction reinforcing part. The sound insulation earplug can solve the problem that the existing sound insulation earplug is difficult to give consideration to both the noise reduction effect and the wearing comfort.

An ear insert 10 comprises a generally tubular core 12 with an inner wall defining a longitudinal channel 40 for guiding sound waves, from a first end 14 to a second, open, end 44. The inner wall defi

The present invention falls within the field of articles for daily use, and particularly relates to a sleep noise-proof structure provided on an eye-shrouding member being an eye patch or a sleeping cap and having an eye shield for shrouding the eyes, wherein the sleep noise-proof structure comprises two wires and two earplugs, the wires have a first end and a second end, and the first end is fixedly connected to the front side of the eye shield, and the second end is connected to an earplug. Since the earplug is connected to the front side of the eye shield with a wire, not only the problem of loss of the earplug can be prevented, but also the ear cannot be tightened and the overall comfort can be increased for a better experience.

The invention relates to a device (1) for the selective attenuation of noise emitted by dental equipment with a so-called active part (3) whose shapes and dimensions correspond to the shapes and dimensions of an human external auditory canal (4) being and adapted to be removably inserted into the canal (4), a gripping part (5) of the device (1), the active part (3) with at least one communication orifice (71, 81, 91) with the external auditory canal (4) and at least one tubular resonance chamber (7, 8, 9) having an open end (71, 81, 91) and a closed end. The active part (3) is configured as a cylinder with at least two straight, circular-based cylindrical resonance chambers (7, 8, 9) whose longitudinal axes (A7, A8, A9) are parallel to each other and to a longitudinal axis (A3) of the active part (3). At least two resonance chambers have different lengths.

The utility model discloses a comfortable sound insulation type silica gel earplug, which relates to the technical field of silica gel earplugs, and comprises a first silica gel earplug and a second silica gel earplug, the first silica gel earplug and the second silica gel earplug are both fixedly provided with a fixed ear frame, and one end of the first silica gel earplug and one end of the second silica gel earplug are both provided with air holes. And a sealing plug is tightly attached to the interior of each air hole, a connecting frame is fixedly arranged at one end of each sealing plug, a connecting belt is tightly attached to each connecting frame, a connecting rope is fixedly arranged at the other end of each connecting belt, and a connecting mechanism is arranged at one end of each connecting rope. According to the utility model, through the arrangement of the fixed ear frames and the air holes, and the sealing plugs tightly attached to the interiors of the air holes, various choices can be provided for a user when the earplug is worn, and the first silica gel earplug and the second silica gel earplug can be conveniently connected through the connecting rope, so that the first silica gel earplug and the second silica gel earplug are convenient to store.

A computer system for intra-ear sensing and stimulating receives, health data, from an earbud sensor. The system repeatedly calculates an exponential moving average (EMA) of a moving window for the received health data. The system compares each calculated exponential moving average with a lower threshold value and an upper threshold value. The upper threshold value and the lower threshold value are determined based, at least in part, upon a saturation level associated within an amplifier performing the adaptive gain control. When the calculated exponential moving average is larger than the upper threshold, the system decreases a gain associated with the amplifier. When the calculated exponential moving average is smaller than the lower threshold, the system increases a gain associated with the amplifier.

A faceplate (1) configured to be removably affixed to an outer face (20) of a retaining body (17) of an earpiece (2) configured to be disposed within the concha of an ear of a wearer. An earpiece (2) comprising a retaining body (17) configured to be disposed within the concha of an ear of a wearer, the retaining body having an outer face (20) opposite to an inner face (21) extending to a retaining body periphery (22), the retaining body including a projection element (18) configured to project into an ear canal opening of the wearer, the projection element (18) adapted to retain an earpiece tip (19) configured to engage an ear canal wall of the wearer, and a faceplate (1) configured to cover the outer face (20) of the retaining body (17), the retaining body and the faceplate including releasably engageable mateable parts to removably affix the faceplate to the retaining body.

The invention relates to an invisible pickup noise reduction earplug and method, and relates to the technical field of noise reduction, the invisible pickup noise reduction earplug comprises a shell, a noise reduction structure, a power supply structure and an invisible pull-out structure; the shell is matched with an ear canal in appearance and is provided with a mounting hole; the noise reduction structure is arranged in the shell and comprises a sound receiving unit, an ARM processing unit and a sound production unit which are electrically connected in sequence; the power supply structure is electrically connected with the ARM processing unit and is used for supplying power to the noise reduction structure; the invisible pull-out structure is mounted at the mounting hole, the invisible pull-out structure comprises a protruding part, and at least part of the protruding part is arranged outside the shell. The device has the effect of being convenient to take out.

A hearing protection device to be worn in ear provides communications of ambient sound to an in-ear speaker. Blast noise is detected and measured using either the in-ear speaker as a microphone or using a separate in-ear microphone.

The utility model provides a shading eyeshade which comprises an eyeshade body, an adjusting groove is formed in the outer surface of the eyeshade body, a light hole penetrating through the eyeshade body in the thickness direction is formed in the adjusting groove, and a shading piece used for shading the light hole is arranged in the adjusting groove. The anti-dazzling screen slides in the adjusting groove so that the light inlet amount of the eyeshade body can be adjusted by adjusting the covering rate of the anti-dazzling screen on the light transmitting hole. The adjusting groove is formed in the outer side of the eyeshade connecting band, the light hole penetrating through the wearing part and the shading part is formed in the groove, the shading piece in the adjusting groove slides to cover the area of the light hole so as to achieve stepless adjustment of the light inlet amount, and operation is easy.

A method for external ear canal pressure regulation to alleviate one or more symptoms associated with a disorder or treat one or more disorders, the method including providing a fluid transfer device which generates a fluid flow of a fluid through an earplug, the earplug having an earplug external surface configured to sealably engage an external ear canal wall as a barrier between an external ear canal pressure and an ambient pressure; sealably engaging the earplug of the fluid transfer device with the external ear canal wall as the barrier between the external ear canal pressure and the ambient pressure; and operating the fluid transfer device to generate the fluid flow of the fluid through the earplug to achieve an external ear canal pressure differential between the external ear canal pressure and the ambient pressure effective to alleviate a disorder symptom or treat a disorder.

Hearing protection device (10, 10′, 10″) with an indication unit (40a, 40b) and a detection unit (30, 30′, 30″) to send a first detection signal, to assign a distance value based on a second detection signal of an external device (50, 50) representing the physical distance to the external device (50, 50) and to control the indication unit (40a, 40b) to provide an indication to the user (100) if the assigned distance value is at or below a predetermined threshold distance value. Thus, a collision may easily and reliably be prevented by providing an indication to the user (100), so that the risk of missing relevant sound of a moving person or object is overcome. A collision warning system comprising such a hearing protection device (10, 10′, 10″) and an external device is also provided. Furthermore, a method of retrofitting a hearing protection device (10′″) with such a detection unit (30, 30′, 30″) is provided.

The utility model discloses an adjustable noise reduction earplug, which comprises an earplug main body and a toggle switch, a sound receiving channel is arranged in the earplug main body, a sound receiving hole is arranged on the upper end face of the earplug main body, the sound receiving hole is communicated with the sound receiving channel, a limit chute is arranged on the upper end face of the earplug main body, and the limit chute is communicated with the sound receiving channel. The toggle switch is connected with the limiting sliding groove in a sliding and limiting mode, and the toggle switch can open or block the sound receiving hole. According to the utility model, the sound receiving hole can be opened or sealed by arranging the toggle switch, so that the adjustment of the noise reduction performance is realized, the use requirements of users in different scenes can be met, the practicability is improved, and the use favor of the users can be improved.

An in-ear hearing protection device is provided. The in-ear hearing protection device includes a microphone (410) configured to receive an ambient sound. The in-ear hearing protection device also includes a processor (420) configured to perform an attenuation function on the received ambient sound to provide an attenuated sound. The in-ear hearing protection device also includes a speaker (440) configured to broadcast the attenuated sound. The in-ear hearing protection device also includes a communication module (430) configured to receive a second attenuation function detail from a second in-ear protection device. The processor is configured to calculate a first attenuation function detail and compare the first and second attenuation function details. The performed attenuation function is based on one of the first and second attenuation function details.

According to an embodiment, a method for designing of one or more virtual models of custom ear devices according to configuration requirements from a user input and according to component and / or material information that are associated with components and / or materials of a target product is provided. The method may comprise steps for displaying the designed one or more virtual models of custom ear devices together with meta data that comprise information on the designed one or more custom ear device's compatibility with the configuration requirements and the contained components. According to an embodiment, a computer-readable storage medium or computer program is provided, comprising commands, which when executed by a computer, causes the computer to execute and perform the method for designing and displaying the one or more virtual models of custom ear devices. According to an embodiment, a system for determining one or more virtual models of custom ear devices is further disclosed. The system may further be configured to display the determined one or more virtual models of custom ear devices together with associated meta data on a graphical user interface.

The present invention relates to a method for producing an individual device (10) for improving health conditions in a subject, comprising: scanning the geometry of the outer cars, producing a 3D-model of the individual device (10), and manufacturing the device (10) specifically adapted to the individual geometry of the outer cars of the subject, wherein the device (10) is specifically adapted to the individual geometry of the outer cars of the subject; to apply pressure to the external car in a way that the position of the pinna is changes; to exert pressure on acupressure points around to the external ear; and wherein the device (10) is flexible.

The invention belongs to the technical field of aviation earplugs, and particularly relates to a micropore pressure relieving earplug and application thereof. Comprising a porous medium cavity, earplug small holes and an ear canal which are sequentially connected, an S-shaped cavity is formed in the porous medium cavity, and the porous medium cavity, the earplug small holes, the ear canal and the S-shaped cavity are made of porous medium materials. The micro-pore pressure-relieving earplug is applied to manufacturing of aviation earplugs. According to the scheme, the micro-pore earplug model designed in a parameterized mode is adopted, a pressure scene in a real flight environment is reproduced through Comsol Multiphysics, the earplug capable of achieving the pressure relieving efficiency is predicted and found, and a theoretical basis is provided for optimization design. The diameter of a single air hole is planned to be used, whether the simple straight hole has the air pressure relieving function or not is analyzed through simulation, preliminary improvement and optimization are conducted according to the simulation result, a proper air hole design scheme is found, and the pressure relieving efficiency of the earplug under the condition that the air pressure of the aviation environment changes drastically is achieved.

An in-ear hearing protection device is provided. The in-ear hearing protection device includes a microphone (410) configured to receive environmental sound. The in-ear hearing protection device also includes a processor (420) configured to perform an attenuation function on the received environmental sound to provide an attenuated sound. The in-ear hearing protection device also includes a speaker (440) configured to play the attenuated sound. The in-ear hearing protection device also includes a communication module (430) configured to receive second attenuation function details from a second in-ear protection device. The processor is configured to calculate first attenuation function details and compare the first attenuation function details to the second attenuation function details. The attenuation function performed is based on one of the first attenuation function details and the second attenuation function details.

Described herein is a computer-implemented method for constructing a customized ear device in a virtual environment in the form of a design through a network automation process utilizing trained nerves. The described computer-implemented method is configured to allow for altering output from a neural network to create a change to an automatically generated custom ear device design. Further, a system is described herein that utilizes a processor running the methods described herein to automatically generate a virtual-constructed custom ear device that may be modified to adjust for any incorrect output generated by a neural network.