Patents Assigned to Sonion Nederland B.V.
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Publication number: 20240088839Abstract: An amplifier for a dual backplate MEMS microphone comprising at least a first source follower which has a gate for connection to a first backplate of the dual backplate MEMS microphone, and a load circuit connected to a source of the first source follower which provides an output signal of the filter, which filter comprises a second source follower connected to a second backplate of the dual backplate MEMS microphone, and a distortion detection circuit which is connected to the source of the first source follower and to the source of the second source follower for measuring distortion of the output signal at the source of the first source follower, wherein said distortion detection circuit is connected to a correctional circuit that drives at least a first bias current source for the first source follower.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Sonion Nederland B.V.Inventor: Adrianus Maria LAFORT
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Publication number: 20240064474Abstract: The present invention relates to a sound and vibration sensor comprising pressure generating arrangement adapted to generate pressure variations in a first and a second rear volume in response to vibrations of the sound and vibration sensor, the pressure generating arrangement comprising a moveable mass secured to a suspension member, and a first and a second pressure detecting arrangement, wherein the first and second pressure detecting arrangements are acoustically connected to a front volume of the sound and vibration sensor, and wherein each front volume is acoustically connected to the exterior of the sound and vibration sensor via a sound inlet, wherein the first pressure detecting arrangement is acoustically connected to the first rear volume, and that the second pressure detecting arrangement is acoustically connected to the second rear volume. The present invention further relates to a personal audio device comprising a sound and vibration sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2022Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: Sonion Nederland B.V.Inventor: Peter Christiaan POST
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Publication number: 20240064452Abstract: The invention relates to a sound channel and a portable audio device comprising such a sound channel, wherein said sound channel comprises a vent path, a closing element and a guiding surface for guiding a movement of the closing element, wherein said closing element is slidably moveable with respect to said guiding surface by a driving means between a first position in which the closing element substantially closes the vent path and a second position in which the closing element leaves the vent path open, and wherein the closing element comprises a stop surface that engages a stop element of the sound channel in the first position of the closing element and a sliding surface that extends substantially parallel to said guiding surface, wherein a liquid is present between the sliding surface of said closing element and the guiding surface. The invention also relates to a method of operating such a sound channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2022Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: Sonion Nederland B.V.Inventor: Caspar Titus BOLSMAN
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Patent number: 11856360Abstract: The present invention relates to a vibration sensor comprising a pressure generating element for generating pressure differences between a first and a second volume in response to vibrations of the vibration sensor, the first and second volumes being acoustically sealed from each other, and a pressure transducer for measuring pressure differences between the first and second volumes. The present invention also relates to an associated method for detecting vibrations.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Sonion Nederland B.V.Inventors: Peter Christian Post, Raymond Mögelin
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Publication number: 20230412994Abstract: Acoustic valve for a hearing device, including a valve body defining a passageway, and a seat member and shutter member inside the valve body. The shutter member defines a shutter surface that forms a contact portion and a non-contact portion. The shutter member is moveable relative to the seat member to transition the valve between an opened state, wherein the shutter member is removed from the seat member and the passageway is open to allow sound to pass, and a closed state wherein the contact portion abuts the seat member and the non-contact portion blocks the passageway to restrict passage of sound. The contact portion forms a protruding structure that extends from the non-contact portion and towards the seat member, and has a small width along at least one transverse direction to minimise a contact area between the contact portion and the seat member when the valve is closed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Sonion Nederland B.V.Inventors: Theodorus Gerardus Maria BROUWER, Laurens DE RUIJTER, Eddy DUBBELDEMAN, Caspar Titus BOLSMAN
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Publication number: 20230362529Abstract: A hearing device comprising a body provided with a dome, wherein a vent path is provided through the body, and wherein the body is further provided with a valve and a valve driver which connects to the valve for opening and closing of the vent path, wherein when the vent path is closed the valve engages the body, and wherein said valve driver comprises a permanent or switchable magnet and a first electrical coil for generating magnetic field lines that cooperate with the permanent or switchable magnet for moving the valve, wherein the valve driver is arranged to energize the first electrical coil with a current magnitude and/or direction that depends on a position of the valve between an open position wherein the vent path is open and a closed position wherein the vent path is closed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: Sonion Nederland B.V.Inventors: Hendrikus Gijsbertus SCHIMMEL, Laurens DE RUIJTER
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Publication number: 20230345189Abstract: A hearing device comprising a leading sealing element and a trailing receiver and valve, wherein in a longitudinal direction of the hearing device the valve is more distant from the sealing element than the receiver, and wherein the receiver and the valve each are unitary items that are separate from each other, and that the receiver and the valve are connected to each other by a flexible interlink.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2021Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: Sonion Nederland B.V.Inventors: Umut TABAK, Raymond MOGELIN
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Publication number: 20230300514Abstract: The present invention relates to an acoustical assembly adapted to be inserted into an ear canal, said acoustical assembly comprising a receiver unit adapted to generate sound pressure waves, a microphone unit adapted to detect sound pressure waves inside the ear canal when the acoustical assembly is inserted in the ear canal, and a nozzle comprising a receiver unit mount adapted to house at least part of the receiver unit, wherein the nozzle comprises at least one sound channel adapted to guide generated sound pressure waves from a receiver unit outlet to at least one sound outlet opening of the nozzle, and wherein the nozzle further comprises a microphone unit mount adapted to house at least part of the microphone unit. The present invention further relates to a hearing device comprising an acoustical assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2021Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Sonion Nederland B.V.Inventors: Friso VAN NOORT, Raymond MOGELIN
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Patent number: 11760624Abstract: A micro-electromechanical transducer including one or more moveable members, and a viscoelastic substance having a predetermined viscoelasticity, the viscoelastic substance being adapted to influence the response of the transducer in a predetermined manner. The micro-electromechanical transducer of the present invention may include a MEMS transducer, such as a MEMS microphone, a MEMS vibration sensor, a MEMS acceleration sensor, a MEMS receiver.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Sonion Nederland B.V.Inventors: Raymond Mogelin, Dion Ivo de Roo, Frederik Cornelis Blom, Alwin Fransen, Pavlo Mulyar, Peter Christiaan Post
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Patent number: 11564580Abstract: An assembly of at least one radiation detector, at least one radiation emitter and a housing configured to be positioned inside the ear canal of a person or animal, the detector(s) and emitter(s) being provided in or on the housing, the emitter(s) being configured to emit radiation away from the housing and the detector(s) being configured to receive radiation directed toward the housing. No overlap may be provided between the field of view of the radiation detector(s) and the emitter(s), such as by providing a blocking element.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Sonion Nederland B.V.Inventors: Alwin Fransen, Nicolaas Maria Jozef Stoffels, Paul Christiaan van Hal, Sietse Jacob van Reeuwijk, Raymond Mögelin
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Patent number: 11540041Abstract: A communication device configured for use in a user's ear canal including a sealing mechanism configured to acoustically seal a section of the ear canal and a sound conduit in acoustic communication with a sound source. The sound conduit has a first and second opening, a conduit housing, and a vent opening. To provide a reliable adjustment for the venting of sound waves between a sealed section of the ear canal and an ambient environment outside the sealed section, an acoustic valve having a valve member is moveably coupled with the conduit housing, which moveable coupling is configured to provide a relative motion of the valve member and the conduit housing, such that by such relative motion the acoustic valve provides for opening the vent opening, closing the vent opening, and/or adjusting a size of the vent opening. The communication device further includes an electrical actuator to activate the relative motion.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2018Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Sonion Nederland B.V.Inventor: Erwin Kuipers
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Patent number: 11438700Abstract: An armature having a U-shaped element having a first leg portion and a second leg portion and an attachment portion. The attachment portion has a first leg and a second leg and a central portion connected to the legs, such as an E-shaped portion, where the first leg portion is connected to the central portion. A transducer can include such armature.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Sonion Nederland B.V.Inventors: Rasmus Voss, Wouter Herman Broeze, Wouter Bruins, Koen van Gilst
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Patent number: 11358859Abstract: A micro-electromechanical transducer including one or more moveable members, and a viscoelastic substance having a predetermined viscoelasticity, the viscoelastic substance being adapted to influence the response of the transducer in a predetermined manner. The micro-electromechanical transducer of the present invention may include a MEMS transducer, such as a MEMS microphone, a MEMS vibration sensor, a MEMS acceleration sensor, a MEMS receiver.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Sonion Nederland B.V.Inventors: Raymond Mögelin, Dion Ivo de Roo, Frederik Comelis Blom, Alwin Fransen, Pavlo Mulyar, Peter Christiaan Post
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Publication number: 20220169499Abstract: The present invention relates to a micro-electromechanical transducer comprising a pressure detecting arrangement adapted to detect generated pressure variations, and provide an output signal in response to the detected pressure variations, wherein the pressure detecting arrangement comprises a microphone cartridge and a signal processing unit; a pressure generating arrangement adapted to generate pressure variations in response to vibrations thereof; and a volume separating element comprising one or more openings, wherein the microphone cartridge is at least partly arranged in a first opening of the volume separating element in order to reduce the overall height of the micro-electromechanical transducer. The present invention further relates to a hearing device comprising a micro-electromechanical transducer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2021Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: Sonion Nederland B.V.Inventors: Adrianus Maria LAFORT, Rasmus VOSS
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Patent number: 11350208Abstract: The present invention relates to a vibration sensor comprising a pressure generating element for generating pressure differences between a first and a second volume in response to vibrations of the vibration sensor, the first and second volumes being acoustically sealed from each other, and a pressure transducer for measuring pressure differences between the first and second volumes. The present invention also relates to an associated method for detecting vibrations.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Sonion Nederland B.V.Inventors: Peter Christiaan Post, Raymond Mögelin
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Publication number: 20220127135Abstract: The present invention relates to a micro-electromechanical transducer comprising a pressure detection arrangement and a sub-assembly adapted to cooperate with the pressure detection arrangement via a coupling volume, said sub-assembly comprising one or more moveable masses, a suspension member suspending a number of moveable masses, wherein the coupling volume is at least partly defined by the suspension member, and wherein the coupling volume is acoustically connected to an interior volume of the pressure detection arrangement, and wherein the suspension member comprises a viscoelastic material with a predetermined viscous and sealant behaviour in order to dampen one or more resonance peaks of the micro-electromechanical transducer and acoustically seal the coupling volume. The present invention further relates to a hearing device comprising such a micro-electromechanical transducer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2021Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: Sonion Nederland B.V.Inventors: Raymond MOGELIN, Peter Christiaan POST
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Patent number: 11252503Abstract: An assembly of a sound generator having a sound output, a spout connected to the receiver, the spout having a sound channel having a first opening connected to the sound output and a second opening from which sound may be output. The spout has one or more third openings blocked by fastening portions of a dome, and a sensor positioned in the sound channel at the third opening(s). Sound may pass the sensor in the sound channel while travelling in the third opening(s). The assembly may be a personal hearing instrument and the sensor may be a microphone.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Sonion Nederland B.V.Inventors: Friso Van Noort, Raymond Mogelin
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Patent number: 11197111Abstract: A personal hearing device with a first dome, a receiver, a speaker channel extending from the receiver through the dome to a speaker channel output, an acoustic vent channel extending from outside of the receiver and through the dome, where an acoustic separation is provided between the speaker channel output and the vent opening to reduce the amount of sound output by the receiver entering the vent channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Sonion Nederland B.V.Inventors: Laurens de Ruijter, Alwin Fransen, Raymond Mögelin, Oleg Antoniuk, Nicolaas Maria Jozef Stoffels
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Patent number: 11190880Abstract: A diaphragm assembly for a miniature acoustical transducer having a sufficiently light paddle to allow good audio performance and a sufficiently stiff frame to allow handling. The paddle may be made of a thin sheet of aluminium and the frame of thicker aluminium or a bent sheet of aluminium.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Sonion Nederland B.V.Inventors: Michele Colloca, Gert-Jan van der Beek
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Patent number: 11184718Abstract: The present invention relates to a miniature speaker comprising a plurality of sound generating elements, wherein each sound generating element comprises a sound cavity and a moveable element associated therewith, wherein the moveable element comprises one or more cantilever beams configured to move said moveable element and thus generate sound pressure waves in response to an applied drive signal. The present invention further relates to a receiver assembly comprising the miniature speaker, and a hearing device comprising the receiver assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Sonion Nederland B.V.Inventors: Rasmus Voss, Koen van Gilst, Viktor Klymko, Jelle Heuveling