Patents by Inventor Juergen Reithinger

Juergen Reithinger 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: 10735873
    Abstract: A hearing aid apparatus contains a housing having a housing face. The housing face is directed outwardly when the hearing aid apparatus is being worn. The hearing aid apparatus further has an antenna and a transmitter and/or receiver for electromagnetic waves disposed in the housing. The transmitter and/or receiver is coupled to the antenna element. A grip element is disposed on the housing face of the housing, and the antenna is integrated at least in part in the grip element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Sivantos Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hans Adel, Birgit Kuefner-Schwerdtner, Juergen Reithinger, Benjamin Schmidt, Erwin Singer
  • Publication number: 20190166437
    Abstract: A hearing aid apparatus contains a housing having a housing face. The housing face is directed outwardly when the hearing aid apparatus is being worn. The hearing aid apparatus further has an antenna and a transmitter and/or receiver for electromagnetic waves disposed in the housing. The transmitter and/or receiver is coupled to the antenna element. A grip element is disposed on the housing face of the housing, and the antenna is integrated at least in part in the grip element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: HANS ADEL, BIRGIT KUEFNER-SCHWERDTNER, JUERGEN REITHINGER, BENJAMIN SCHMIDT, ERWIN SINGER
  • Patent number: 10231063
    Abstract: In a binaural hearing aid system audio signals are transmitted between an antenna facility of a left ITE hearing aid and an antenna facility of a right ITE hearing aid. Binaural beam forming is based on a natural directivity of the pinna and/or based on a head shadowing effect. Each antenna facility has an antenna arrangement with a coil core made of magnetically permeable material, and extending along a longitudinal axis, a further electric hearing aid component, which emits electromagnetic interference radiation, and an at least partially planar shield made of magnetically permeable material. The shield is arranged between the antenna arrangement and the further hearing aid component transversely to the longitudinal axis of the coil core and the shield is arranged at a distance of 50 to 150 micrometers from the coil core, preferably 75 to 100 micrometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Sivantos Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter Nikles, Juergen Reithinger, Homayoun Kamkar-Parsi, Eghart Fischer
  • Patent number: 10097932
    Abstract: A loudspeaker module for a hearing device has a loudspeaker, which has a loudspeaker diaphragm and a drive for the loudspeaker diaphragm, and a housing, in which the loudspeaker is arranged. Furthermore, the loudspeaker module contains an antenna unit, which has an antenna coil having a coil axis, a tubular coil core, which forms a sound channel, and an antenna base plate, in which a sound passage opening that opens into the sound channel is formed. The antenna coil, the coil core and the antenna base plate in this case prescribe an antenna characteristic of the antenna unit. The side wall of the housing on the diaphragm side is in this case formed by the antenna base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Sivantos Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter Nikles, Juergen Reithinger
  • Publication number: 20180007478
    Abstract: In a binaural hearing aid system audio signals are transmitted between an antenna facility of a left ITE hearing aid and an antenna facility of a right ITE hearing aid. Binaural beam forming is based on a natural directivity of the pinna and/or based on a head shadowing effect. Each antenna facility has an antenna arrangement with a coil core made of magnetically permeable material, and extending along a longitudinal axis, a further electric hearing aid component, which emits electromagnetic interference radiation, and an at least partially planar shield made of magnetically permeable material. The shield is arranged between the antenna arrangement and the further hearing aid component transversely to the longitudinal axis of the coil core and the shield is arranged at a distance of 50 to 150 micrometers from the coil core, preferably 75 to 100 micrometers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: PETER NIKLES, JUERGEN REITHINGER, HOMAYOUN KAMKAR-PARSI, EGHART FISCHER
  • Publication number: 20170245066
    Abstract: A loudspeaker module for a hearing device has a loudspeaker, which has a loudspeaker diaphragm and a drive for the loudspeaker diaphragm, and a housing, in which the loudspeaker is arranged. Furthermore, the loudspeaker module contains an antenna unit, which has an antenna coil having a coil axis, a tubular coil core, which forms a sound channel, and an antenna base plate, in which a sound passage opening that opens into the sound channel is formed. The antenna coil, the coil core and the antenna base plate in this case prescribe an antenna characteristic of the antenna unit. The side wall of the housing on the diaphragm side is in this case formed by the antenna base plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: PETER NIKLES, JUERGEN REITHINGER
  • Patent number: 9253582
    Abstract: An antenna device for hearing instruments is particularly suited for ITE hearing instruments to be worn in the auditory canal. The system enables improved data transmission with increased transmission bandwidth with insignificantly increased space and energy requirements. An antenna arrangement with a coil core of magnetically permeable material has a preferred transmit and receive spatial direction. A further electric hearing instrument component emits electromagnetic interference radiation. A partially planar shield of magnetically permeable material is disposed between the antenna arrangement and the further component transversely to the transmit and receive spatial direction of the antenna arrangement and at a distance of 50 to 150 micrometers from the coil core. The distance is optimized to the fact that the signal-to-noise ratio has a maximum around 100 micrometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Sivantos Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter Nikles, Juergen Reithinger
  • Publication number: 20150201290
    Abstract: An antenna device for hearing instruments is particularly suited for ITE hearing instruments to be worn in the auditory canal. The system enables improved data transmission with increased transmission bandwidth with insignificantly increased space and energy requirements. An antenna arrangement with a coil core of magnetically permeable material has a preferred transmit and receive spatial direction. A further electric hearing instrument component emits electromagnetic interference radiation. A partially planar shield of magnetically permeable material is disposed between the antenna arrangement and the further component transversely to the transmit and receive spatial direction of the antenna arrangement and at a distance of 50 to 150 micrometers from the coil core. The distance is optimized to the fact that the signal-to-noise ratio has a maximum around 100 micrometers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: PETER NIKLES, JUERGEN REITHINGER
  • Patent number: 7366316
    Abstract: A device to transmit and receive data for remote control of hearing devices has a reduced size achieved by the transmitter coils of the transmitter and the receiver coil of the receiver being wound around a common, shared core. Moreover, a protective capacitor that is used to protect the receiver is at the same time used as a correction capacitor to correct the resonant frequency of a reception oscillator circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Siemens Audiologische Technik GmbH
    Inventor: Juergen Reithinger
  • Publication number: 20040235427
    Abstract: A device to transmit and receive data for remote control of hearing devices has a reduced size achieved by the transmitter coils of the transmitter and the receiver coil of the receiver being wound around a common, shared core. Moreover, a protective capacitor that is used to protect the receiver is at the same time used as a correction capacitor to correct the resonant frequency of a reception oscillator circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2004
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Inventor: Juergen Reithinger