285 results about "Ear Auricle" patented technology

A hearing protection device and method of use intended for a human ear. A plug member caps or enters ear canal, and may be shaped to conform to the external auditory meatus. The plug member may be part of a replacement assembly. The device is biased at least in part by a pressure pad to provide some force against the plug member. An optional handle may be provided to assist with temporarily pulling the plug member away from the ear canal or providing adjustment. An optional bow member clips about the pinna. The device may be adapted for use as an ear phone.

The apparatus for transcutaneous stimulation or transcutaneous measurement of a parameter is a device which fits wholly within the pinna (external ear) of the vertebrate. In order to fit completely within the pinna, the housing is C-shaped and from each end of the housing is a curved section which has a spring action that holds the apparatus inside the ear. This apparatus has a compact design which allows for nerve stimulation in a particularly efficient, ergonomically favorable and easy manipulation for the patient.

In a hearing device with low feedback tendency with simultaneous open feed and utilization of the natural directional effect of the pinna, the hearing device has a tube-shaped ear fitting piece for insertion into an auditory canal and speaker is arranged in the ear fitting piece, and at least two microphones are arranged in the ear fitting piece acoustically-symmetrically to the speaker in the built-in state of the hearing device in the ear fitting piece. The sound emitted by the speaker that can be differentiated from the usable sound, such that the level of feedback can be reduced. At the same time, open feed and utilization of the natural directional effect of the pinna are ensured.

In the case of a hearing aid device which can be worn in the ear or a hearing aid device with a otoplastic which can be worn in the ear, the penetration of direct sound through a ventilation channel of the hearing aid device or of the otoplastic is prevented. An acoustic signal is picked up from the ventilation channel via a second microphone in a first region of the ventilation channel and phase-shifting it in a filter device in such a way that the direct sound is at least largely eliminated after the phase-shifted signal is emitted into the ventilation channel via a second earphone. The invention offers the advantage that an enlargement of the cross section of the ventilation channel is made possible as a result, even to provide an open supply, without disturbing direct sound getting into the auditory canal of the person wearing the hearing device.

A system for audio content delivery to an in-the-ear device from a local computing device. Also, a system for audio content delivery to an in-the-ear device from a content delivery network. The in-the-ear device is sized and shaped such that it universally and ergonomically fits into the human ear without slipping out and provides the user with a comfortable fit. The in-the-ear device is secured in the user's ear taking advantage of the natural curvature of the human to provide support and shift the center of gravity from outside the ear to further inside the pinna to prevent the device from slipping out while retaining a high level of comfort.

An auricle-installed apparatus, including: a device configured to be installable to a user's ear and have an electric conversion function; and a main body including a supporting portion configured to support the device, and a first curved portion and a second curved portion that are configured to be installable to a user's auricle, the first curved portion and the second curved portion having a first state configured to maintain a first curved shape and a second state configured to maintain a second curved shape different from the first curved shape.

Headsets (20, 50, 60, 71) provide surround sound and full 3 dimensional effects to a user to simulate the effects of direction and sound source. Advantages include: surround sound effect without the limitations of Head-Related Transfer Functions, and pinna effect customized to each user's ears; horn shape tube outlets (32) to create an efficient transmission of sound; ability to space the headset speakers (22, 24) away from the user's ear and to maintain sound quality by addition of a chamber (28) behind the speakers (22, 24), with the aid of tube sound guides (23, 25) and the horn shaped outlets; and, no need for electronic hardware to process the electrical signals to create desired effects as placement of the speakers creates the correct timing, and damping material (34) in the tubes between speakers creates a desired intensity drop. Head tracking capability is also provided.

In order to obtain an ear-hook headphone that is light and comfortable to wear, a supporting portion that supports a housing portion is provided in the vicinity of one end of an approximately U-shaped bend of an arm-shaped guide portion; a pushing portion that resiliently pushes from behind the auricle of a user toward the housing portion is provided in the vicinity of the other end; and a sound-outputting surface of the housing portion is disposed on the face side of the listener wearing the headphone to be approximately perpendicular to the surface formed by the bend of the arm-shaped guide portion. According to this construction, the housing portion can be easily accommodated in the earhole of the user's ear with the guide portion being slipped along the base of the user's ear, and the headphone can be reliably worn with the pushing portion resiliently pushing from behind his / her auricle.

An otoplastic for production of behind-the-ear hearing aids. The hearing aid includes a preferably flexible signal conductor, such as an acoustic tube positioned in the auditory canal, whereby the otoplastic matches the individual anatomy of the patient and its locating part is in the form of a clip, which, at least partly arched, follows the outer edge of the cavum conchae. A branch following the edge of the cavum conchae transforms, above the antitragus, into a bent crosspiece traversing the cavum conchae and extending in the direction of the porous acusticus externus. The end section of the crosspiece lies in the upper section of the auditory canal and widens to accept the signal conductor (42).

An improved multi-function hearing aid having in-situ testing, fitting and verification functions is disclosed which solves problems long standing in the art of hearing aid fitting dealing with individual size differences in the size of the pina and ear canal of the user, individual preference to sound level and frequency variation, and verification procedures.

According to the present invention, a hearing aid is provided having a housing with an open canal section that is adapted for fitting in the ear canal of a user and having a short vent the longitudinal extension of which is shorter than the longitudinal extension of the open canal section, and an output port for emission of sound towards the eardrum of the user when inserted in the ear canal, and a closed pinna section for enclosing hearing aid components and that is attached to the open canal section and adapted to be positioned outside the ear canal in front of the pinna when the open canal section is inserted in the ear canal, the short vent substantially preventing the occlusion effect.

A device for protecting an ear of a subject from auricular haematoma, characterized in that the device comprises an inner member for inserting behind the ear and between the ear and skull of the subject, and a first outer member for placing over the ear of the subject, and for securing to the skull of the subject, the inner member being of a resilient shock absorbing material for acting as a shock absorber between the ear and skull and for cushioning the ear against the skull in the event of a blow, or other force, to the ear.

In the case of a hearing aid device which can be worn in the ear or a hearing aid device with a otoplastic which can be worn in the ear, the penetration of direct sound through a ventilation channel of the hearing aid device or of the otoplastic is prevented. An acoustic signal is picked up from the ventilation channel via a second microphone in a first region of the ventilation channel and phase-shifting it in a filter device in such a way that the direct sound is at least largely eliminated after the phase-shifted signal is emitted into the ventilation channel via a second earphone. The invention offers the advantage that an enlargement of the cross section of the ventilation channel is made possible as a result, even to provide an open supply, without disturbing direct sound getting into the auditory canal of the person wearing the hearing device.

The present invention relates to a new type of hearing device housing having an open canal section that is adapted for fitting in the ear canal of a wearer and having a short vent, the longitudinal extension of which is shorter than the longitudinal extension of the open canal section, and an output port for emission of sound towards the eardrum of the wearer when inserted in the ear canal, and an outer ear section for accommodation of electronic components and being attached to the canal section and adapted for positioning in front of the ear during use, the short vent reducing the occlusion effect, wherein the canal section comprises an open and flexible earpiece manufactured in standard sizes. The hearing device may be a hearing aid, a headset, a headphone, etc. Unlike a conventional BTE (Behind-The-Ear) hearing aid having a housing to be positioned behind the ear, the housing of the hearing device according to the present invention is positioned in front of the ear, i.e. in front of the pinna. The positioning of the hearing device is simple since positioning of the outer ear section is automatically performed together with the positioning of the open canal section in the ear canal of the wearer.

[Object] To provide a headphone device in which the influence of individual differences in virtual sound field reproduction is less likely to occur and which may listen external sounds naturally,[Solution] A left-side headphone body and a right-side headphone body include speaker arrays which are formed of a plurality of speaker units which are arranged to surround auricles, respectively. The speaker array of the headphone body reproduces a sound field inside a closed curved surface in the vicinity of the auricle using wave field synthesis, and since reverberation or a diffraction effect occurs in the ear of each individual, the influence caused by individual differences is less likely to occur. In addition, the speaker array has the plurality of the speaker units arranged to surround the auricle and is not of a shape that blocks the ear of the listener, and then the external sound can be heard naturally.

The present invention pertains to an ear-mountable, paraboloid-shaped reflective acoustic lens which can be used to enhance a user's perception of the sounds from a source the user faces. The lens mechanically collects and naturally amplifies the airborne acoustic information from the sound source. The lens uses both the wearer's external ear as well as the interior face of an acoustic lens to coherently reflect increased amounts of sound from the source into the ear canal of a user who wears the lightweight, deformable lens. All sections of the lens meet the head of the user at an obtuse angle. The lens is held in place around the user's ear by the inward pressure of the lens pushing against the outside of the user's pinna. Adherence of the device to the ear of the wearer can be increased by an adhesive strip on the interior face of the lens.

The invention provides a sound oriented transmission method of a mobile terminal and the mobile terminal. The method comprises the steps of: storing auricle images of a user into the internal storage of the mobile terminal in advance; when the mobile terminal plays sound, starting an image obtaining device to obtain the front image of the mobile terminal; recognizing that whether auricle characteristics are included in the front image; if the auricle characteristics are recognized, matching the auricle characteristics in the auricle images stored in the mobile terminal with the auricle characteristics in the front image; if the matching is successful, obtaining relative three-dimensional space coordinates of the ears of the user relative to a parametric array loudspeaker in the mobile terminal, starting the parametric array loudspeaker, and transmitting sound signals towards the directions of the ears according to the obtained relative three-dimensional space coordinates. According to the sound oriented transmission method of the mobile terminal and the mobile terminal, after being recognized, the ears of the user are positioned, sound is transmitted in an oriented manner by the parametric array loudspeaker, and thereby sound diffusion is reduced, and interference of the sound on people nearby is avoided.

An earphone including a housing, a first speaker and an audio outlet is provided. The housing includes an insertion end and a main body. The insertion end is into the entrance of a user's ear when worn by the user, and the main body extends from the insertion end and defines an auricle contact surface and an external connecting surface opposite to the auricle contact surface. The auricle contact surface faces the user's auricle and the external connecting surface communicates to the external environment when the earphone is worn. The first speaker is contained within the main body to divide into a front chamber and a first rear chamber. A part of the first rear chamber is adjacent to the auricle contact surface. A sound output surface of the first speaker faces the external connecting surface. The audio outlet is formed in the insertion end to let out the sound.

Headsets (20, 50, 60, 71) provide surround sound and full 3 dimensional effects to a user to simulate the effects of direction and sound source. Advantages include: surround sound effect without the limitations of Head-Related Transfer Functions, and pinna effect customized to each user's ears; horn shape tube outlets (32) to create an efficient transmission of sound; ability to space the headset speakers (22, 24) away from the user's ear and to maintain sound quality by addition of a chamber (28) behind the speakers (22, 24), with the aid of tube sound guides (23, 25) and the horn shaped outlets; and, no need for electronic hardware to process the electrical signals to create desired effects as placement of the speakers creates the correct timing, and damping material (34) in the tubes between speakers creates a desired intensity drop. Head tracking capability is also provided.

In order to improve the directional effect in a hearing device system with a hearing aid device worn behind the left ear and a hearing aid device worn behind the right ear, the hearing aid devices are to be fashioned side-specific. Furthermore, each hearing aid device has at least three sound entrance ports that are arranged substantially along a straight line. When the hearing aid devices are worn, these straight lines are turned toward the straight-ahead viewing direction of a hearing device user (in contrast to symmetrically-fashioned hearing aid devices) due to the particular fashioning of the hearing aid devices. A directional effect thus is achieved by the natural formation of the pinna.

A digital hearing aid is disclosed in the present disclosure. The digital hearing aid comprises a body hung behind an ear and a sound transmitting device for receiving and outputting sound that is placed within an auricle and extends into an external auditory canal. The body and the sound transmitting device are connected and fixed together via a connecting device. The connecting device is formed of a material and a structure which are bendable, extendable and capable of maintaining the bending deformation, and the connecting device is preformed into a shape of an ear hook. In this way, the present disclosure can have the advantages of both the behind-the-ear hearing aid and the complete-in-canal hearing aid and is adaptive to the shape of the auricle and the facial structure so as to meet the demands of people in different growth stages or of different people.

A headphone device includes: a driver unit held in the vicinity of the external acoustic meatus of an ear; and an arm in a predetermined shape formed integrally with the driver unit and extending from the driver unit, wherein an end of the arm is kept abutting on a part of the auricle near the base the auricle on a back side thereof to support the device at two support points provided by the driver unit and the end of the arm.

A headphone including a housing that includes a speaker unit and that has a generally flat surface that comes into contact with an outward facing surface of an auricle of an ear and a neckband that is connected to the housing. The neckband has a ring form with a partially cut-out section and the inner side of at least one end of the neckband is connected to the housing. The neckband and the generally flat surface of the housing are generally coplanar, and have an elastic force in a direction that causes the neckband and the generally flat surface of the housing to return to the coplanar arrangement.

Electrical signals corresponding to sound are received at a wire, and sound is generated at a speaker connected to the wire. The sound is resonated in a cavity of a shell housing the speaker, and then passed along a transmission tube toward a pinna of a user's ear without directing the sound directly toward the user's ear canal.

The invention discloses a wearable physiological activity sensor, a sensing device and a sensing system. In an implementation example, the wearable physiological activity sensor comprises an intra-ear housing on which an electrode for encephalograms is installed, wherein the size and the shape of the intra-ear housing are constructed to be connected with at least part of the cavum conchae, cymba conchae, and / or intertragic notch of an auricle of a user, and further constructed to provide a stable jacking force for jacking the cavum conchae, the antitragus, the tragus and / or the intertragic notch of the auricle at the position of the electrode for encephalograms, so that a brain electric signal is conveniently obtained by the electrode for encephalograms.

An ear vagus stimulator is characterized by comprising an ear electrode, a main frame and connection conductive wires; the main frame comprises a shell which is provided with a hook-shaped part in a protruding mode, the surface formed by the inner side face of the hook-shaped part and one side face of the shell together is matched with the outer side face of the ear back of the human body in shape, and therefore the main frame can be hung on the ear back of the human body; the ear electrode comprises an insulation base, an earplug electrode, an auricle electrode and a regulating knob, the earplug electrode plays a role in locating and acts on the ear canal port when the ear vagus stimulator is used, the auricle electrode plays a role in locating and acts on the auricle portion, the earplug electrode is fixedly arranged on the base, and the auricle electrode is connected to the base in a sliding mode; the regulating knob is screwed on the base, so that the auricle electrode is located on the base after sliding in place; the earplug electrode and the auricle electrode are connected to the main frame through the connection conductive wires. The ear vagus stimulator is simple in structure and convenient to carry, convenient and comfortable to operate when used, good in flexibility when used, and capable of adapting to the sizes and inner shapes of different ears.

A hearing protection device and method of natural sealing provides an ear clip designed with two elongated elements. The elements each have a flexible part or cushions at one end and are attached with a tension mechanism that applies pressure forcing the ends together. The flexible part or cushion ends contact the wearer, one behind the lower ear and the other at the auricle skin flap pressing the flap to cover the ear canal.