Abstract: A hearing aid contains a housing with an integrated battery compartment for reversibly receiving a battery. The hearing aid further contains a battery compartment door for reversibly closing the battery compartment. The battery compartment door has a sealing and closing contour, which is formed integrally thereon in one piece and which has increased flexibility compared to the housing and, in the closed state of the battery compartment door, is in preferably fluid-tight contact with the edge of the battery compartment and provides a holding action.

Abstract: A binaural hearing device has first and second hearing aids and a control device. Each hearing aid has a communication unit, an audio receiver and an earphone. The communication units are configured for reciprocal data transmission by inductive coupling. The audio receivers receive and process stereophonic audio data. The control device switches one of the hearing aids to an inactive audio reception state and the other to an active audio reception state, swaps the audio reception states of the hearing aids within an operating period based on a signal strength of the audio signal of one hearing aid at a time, and drives the hearing aid with the active audio reception state to transmit audio data to the hearing aid with the inactive audio reception state via the communication units.

Abstract: A hearing aid includes a hearing aid housing and an antenna device constructed to receive and/or transmit electromagnetic waves having a predetermined wavelength lambda. The antenna device has a frame incorporated in the hearing aid housing for holding assemblies of the hearing aid and the frame has an electrically conductive structure being an integral part of the frame. A method for producing a hearing aid includes patterning a surface of the frame, applying an electrically conductive layer to the surface of the frame and incorporating the frame into the hearing aid housing.

Abstract: An aerosol antiperspirant composition of the type in which an antiperspirant agent such as aluminium chlorhydrate is suspended in a propellant medium, the medium containing a polyalkylene glycol for example a butoxymonoether of an ethylene oxide -- propylene oxide condensate, an ethylene oxide -- propylene oxide block copolymer or a polypropylene glycol. The effect of including a polyalkylene glycol is to substantially reduce the amount of stain which develops on clothing to which the antiperspirant becomes accidentally transferred.

Abstract: A clip for assembling panels which comprises a body having an elongated cross section which is symmetrical about a longitudinal axis of symmetry and a lateral axis of symmetry. The body has a pair of axial slots at opposite ends of the cross section which extend inwardly of the body along the longitudinal axis of symmetry. Two pair of grooves are each disposed symmetrically about a respective one of the axial slots and extend into the body generally along a longitudinal dimension of the body cross section, and the grooves open adjacent the respective one of the axial slots on opposite sides thereof. Each of the grooves have facing inner sidewalls which include portions protruding inwardly for retaining a portion of a clip support inserted therein. The clip body also has a pair of opposed lateral channels disposed symmetrically on opposite sides of the longitudinal axis of symmetry and having a width extending longitudinally of the body cross section symmetrically about the lateral axis of symmetry.