Patents by Inventor Manfred Kachler

Manfred Kachler has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6671643
    Abstract: In order to test a hearing aid having at least one microphone, one signal processing unit and one sound transducer, a sound channel is produced between the microphone and the sound transducer. The electrical signal path in the hearing aid is interrupted, and a test signal is fed into the interrupted signal path within the hearing aid, is emitted via the sound transducer, and is passed on through the sound channel to the microphone. The signal received by the microphone is then evaluated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Siemens Audiologische Technik GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Kachler, Fred Zoels
  • Publication number: 20020082794
    Abstract: In order to test a hearing aid having at least one microphone, one signal processing unit and one sound transducer, a sound channel is produced between the microphone and the sound transducer. The electrical signal path in the hearing aid is interrupted, and a test signal is fed into the interrupted signal path within the hearing aid, is emitted via the sound transducer, and is passed on through the sound channel to the microphone. The signal received by the microphone is then evaluated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Inventors: Manfred Kachler, Fred Zoels
  • Patent number: 5835611
    Abstract: In a method for the adaptation of the transmission characteristic of a hearing aid to the hearing aid impairment of a hearing aid wearer using a personal computer having a pointer device such as a mouse, the acoustician selects segments of the graphic presentation of the hearing aid parameters with the mouse, modifies the graphics point-by-point or segment-by-segment by displacement of the mouse and thereby correspondingly co-modifies appertaining, displayable parameters. The hearing aid can be adapted to reach a target characteristic by means of one adaptation procedure, followed if necessary by further analogous fine adaptation procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: Siemens Audiologische Technik GmbH
    Inventors: Eduard Kaiser, Roland Weidner, Manfred Kachler, Jorg Haubold