Patents by Inventor Lawrence M. Posen

Lawrence M. Posen 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).

  • Press-fit sound damping structure
    Patent number: 5864628
    Abstract: An acoustic attenuator and wax barrier for a hearing aid includes a substantially cylindrical, color coded, housing having a barbed portion for press-fitting the barrier into position. As the channel diameters increase, an associated peak output frequency also increases for the respective housing. The barrier may include one of a plurality of attenuating or damping screens which provides predetermined sound damping characteristics. Alternately, the barrier may include housings having different acoustic channel diameters to provide the different, predetermined audio attenuation or damping characteristics. The barrier is field changeable and is more easily inserted than removed. The barrier may be provided as part of a system which includes a tool for performing field replacement of the barrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Beltone Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Miles Posen, Lawrence M. Posen, Robert S. Yoest
  • Hearing aid screening device having an elongated spacing element which extends therefrom providing for ingress of background noise
    Patent number: 5732396
    Abstract: A hand held hearing screening device includes a housing with a spacing element extending therefrom. Word generating circuitry is carried within the housing. A control switch on the housing cycles the generating circuitry to produce one or more output word or phrase sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: Beltone Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence M. Posen, Miles P. Posen, Erik A. Lindberg