Patents by Inventor Christian Weistenhofer

Christian Weistenhofer 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).

  • Publication number: 20050105749
    Abstract: The space in hearing device housings (1, 2) is to be enabled to be used more intensively. To this end, the invention pro-poses dispensing with a separate microphone housing and embodying said housing in one piece with the hearing device housing. To reduce the microphone's sensitivity to body sound the corresponding attenuation can be provided in the hearing device shells or the non body-sound-sensitive Silicon microphones (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Torsten Niederdrank, Christian Weistenhofer
  • Publication number: 20050105741
    Abstract: The process of adapting a hearing aid to its wearer is to be simp lified. To this end the acoustic conditions in the auditory canal, especially the acoustic impedance, are estimated by measuring the input impedance of the earpiece on the hearing aid. For adjusting the hearing aid it is worthwhile using the mechanical resonance of the system of hearing aid and auditory canal which can be detected with the aid of the input impedance. This is produced by a simplified equivalent circuit diagram from which the corresponding acoustic variables can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Torsten Niederdrank, Christian Weistenhofer
  • Publication number: 20040208330
    Abstract: If a hearing device user has become accustomed to the tone of a hearing device, it is difficult for him to change over to a new hearing device, since this normally possesses a different tone. Therefore, given a treatment with a second or subsequent device, the settings of the old hearing device can be acquired with a computer-controlled event and be considered in a first adjustment given the adaptation of the new hearing device. The new setting then results from the audiometric measurements, the data of the previous device, and if necessary further data. The tone of the new device is thus approximated to the old device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Inventors: Josef Chalupper, Matthias Frohlich, Thomas Hopf, Reinier Kortekaas, Kristin Rohrseitz, Christian Weistenhofer
  • Publication number: 20040057592
    Abstract: An acoustic module for a hearing aid device has at least one microphone and at least one earphone (acoustic output transducer) combined together as a unit, the unit including a signal-processing unit for feedback suppression that is connected with the microphone and the earphone. Feedback signal portions are removed from the microphone signal by the signal-processing unit. The acoustic module places acousto-mechanical components within a unitary component, with acousto-mechanical characteristics that can be measured and included in the signal processing for feedback suppression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Inventors: Torsten Niederdrank, Tom Weidner, Christian Weistenhofer
  • Publication number: 20040028251
    Abstract: An antenna coil is present in a hearing aid device to wirelessly transmit signals between a hearing aid device and a further device. Due to the required miniaturization of hearing aid devices, only minimal space is available for the arrangement of the antenna coil in the hearing aid device. The invention therefore provides for winding the antenna coil around an existing electro-acoustic transducer in the hearing aid device or around a capsule surrounding the transducer. A comparatively large antenna coil, for which little additional space is required, can thereby be provided in the hearing aid device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Applicant: Siemens Audiologische Technik GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Kasztelan, Torsten Niederdrank, Peter Nikles, Christian Weistenhofer