Abstract: An auditory canal insert is to be produced which can be manufactured simply and cost-effectively and which is less susceptible to dirt, especially cerumen. To this end an auditory canal insert is proposed which has an at least essentially tubular inner section, an outer section lying at least in some area against a user's auditory canal wall when the device is being worn and a filter element, especially a cerumen-protection and/or attenuation element, in which the filter element is initially manufactured as a separate component and subsequently connected by an insert molding process in one piece with the inner section. For the filter element this thus enables a broad spectrum to be covered in respect of its acoustic and mechanical filter characteristics.

Abstract: A device for inserting a pin into a hearing aid has a gripper embodied in the shape of a cylinder. In an end face the gripper has an aperture by way of which a pin that is to be placed in the hearing aid is picked up. For this purpose the gripper is pressed onto the pin. After the pin has been successfully placed in the hearing aid, pressure is then applied, by squeezing with the hand for example, to the lateral surface of the gripper. This causes a size of the aperture to be changed in the radial direction, as a result of which the pin clasped by the gripper is released. By this means it is advantageously possible to pick up a pin that is to be placed in the hearing aid and install it while making use of only one hand and without recourse to a tool such as a pair of tweezers, for example.