Search Patents
  • Publication number: 20130148831
    Abstract: Hearing system comprising a hearing device and an FM receiver, the FM receiver being adapted to be operationally connected to the hearing device and to communicate wirelessly with an FM transmitter on an FM channel, the hearing device comprising memory storing configuration data indicating the FM channel and transferring means for transferring the stored configuration data to the FM receiver, the hearing system further comprising a configurator adapted to configure the FM receiver to use the indicated FM channel for communicating wirelessly with the FM transmitter. The hearing system further comprises a detector adapted to detect whether the FM receiver is operationally connected to the hearing device, and the transferring means further is adapted to transfer the stored configuration data to the FM receiver in response to the FM receiver going from not being operationally connected to being operationally connected to the hearing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: OTICON A/S
    Inventor: OTICON A/S
  • Patent number: 11546704
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and method for establishing a bond for allowing secure communication between a hearing aid and an external device. Especially, the system and method allows for establish the bond without one of the device present during the bonding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventor: Bjarne Klemmensen
  • Patent number: 10555096
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a hearing instrument including a housing to be worn at an ear of a person. The hearing instrument including an antenna unit having a slot. Further, the antenna unit comprises a loading wing arranged so as to focus the nearfield of the inside the hearing instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventors: Rune Sø, Jens Troelsen
  • Patent number: 11564047
    Abstract: A hearing aid system comprising at least a first hearing aid, wherein the first hearing aid is configured to establish a communication link over the internet with a remote entity based on a protocol stack, wherein the protocol stack includes an internet protocol, and the protocol stack is implemented in the first hearing aid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventor: Bjarne Klemmensen
  • Patent number: 11902749
    Abstract: A hearing aid system comprising at least a first hearing aid, wherein the first hearing aid is configured to establish a communication link over the internet with a remote entity based on a protocol stack, wherein the protocol stack includes an internet protocol, and the protocol stack is implemented in the first hearing aid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventor: Bjarne Klemmensen
  • Patent number: 9808623
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a hearing system. The hearing system comprises an implantable device configured to be implanted under the skin of a wearer and an external device configured to be positioned at an ear of the wearer. The external device comprises a transmit system configured to generate a wireless signal for being transmitted to the implantable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: OTICON MEDICAL A/S
    Inventors: Søren Kamaric Riis, Shahrokh Tahniat
  • Patent number: 7058191
    Abstract: A hearing aid including a radio frequency receiver, where the receiver includes a single oscillator providing a single crystal oscillator frequency and where means are provided for generating a further number of receiving frequencies by transforming the oscillator frequency to the desired receiving frequencies, where further scanning means are provided for upon activation provide a scanning of the possible frequency area and select a detected frequency superceding a predetermined detector level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Lars Ballisager, Bjarne Klemmensen
  • Patent number: 11683650
    Abstract: A hearing aid system includes an implant unit and a sound processor unit. The implant unit may be a transcutaneous bone anchoring stimulator configured to provide an acoustical vibration to the skull of the user wearing the hearing aid system. The implant unit may be cochlear stimulator configured to stimulate neural nerves of the cochlear of the user wearing the hearing aid system. The sound processor unit may be a housing attached to the skin of the user and attached to the implant unit by a magnetic force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Oticon Medical A/S
    Inventors: Jens Troelsen, Oleksandr Rybalko
  • Patent number: 11310610
    Abstract: A hearing aid system includes an implant unit and a sound processor unit. The implant unit may be a transcutaneous bone anchoring stimulator configured to provide an acoustical vibration to the skull of the user wearing the hearing aid system. The implant unit may be cochlear stimulator configured to stimulate neural nerves of the cochlear of the user wearing the hearing aid system. The sound processor unit may be a housing attached to the skin of the user and attached to the implant unit by a magnetic force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Oticon Medical A/S
    Inventors: Jens Troelsen, Oleksandr Rybalko
  • Patent number: 11765530
    Abstract: An assembly for a hearing aid is disclosed. The hearing aid with the assembly comprises an in the ear part and a behind the ear part and a part mechanically interconnecting the two parts. In the interconnection, a flexible substrate is arranged. The flexible substrate comprises conductive paths. The conductive paths may be used for communication between the in the ear part and the behind the ear part, and/or for an antenna function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventors: Kenneth Rueskov Møller, Jens Troelsen, Rune Sø, Oliver Sundberg, Finn Danielsen, Jesper B. Johansen, Mads Sager, Svend Oscar Petersen, Bent Jakobsen
  • Patent number: 10757515
    Abstract: A hearing aid comprises a housing, comprising: a substrate carrying a wireless interface, the substrate further carrying a processor, the substrate arranged in the housing; an antenna arranged in the housing, the antenna being connected to the wireless interface; the antenna configured to emit and/or receive electromagnetic fields, an electronic element, connected to the processor via an electrical connection line; wherein a decoupling element is provided in the electrical connection line wherein the decoupling element has a characteristic frequency at the frequency, at which the antenna is tuned to radiate and/or receive the electromagnetic fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Jens Troelsen, Poul Henriksen
  • Publication number: 20150078599
    Abstract: A hearing aid device configured to communicate wirelessly with an external device is disclosed. The hearing aid device comprises a housing with a microphone, an amplifier, where the hearing aid device comprises an antenna and either: a) a tube configured to deliver sound acoustically from a receiver in the housing to an ear mould or a dome or electrically to a receiver in an ear mould or a dome or b) a hook configured to deliver sound acoustically from a receiver in the housing to an ear mould or a dome. The antenna extends along at least a portion of the tube or the hook.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Oliver SUNDBERG, Jens TROELSEN, Bjarne KIELSHOLM-RIBALAYGUA
  • Patent number: 9491554
    Abstract: A hearing aid device configured to communicate wirelessly with an external device is disclosed. The hearing aid device comprises a housing with a microphone, an amplifier, where the hearing aid device comprises an antenna and either: a) a tube configured to deliver sound acoustically from a receiver in the housing to an ear mold or a dome or electrically to a receiver in an ear mold or a dome or b) a hook configured to deliver sound acoustically from a receiver in the housing to an ear mold or a dome. The antenna extends along at least a portion of the tube or the hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventors: Oliver Sundberg, Jens Troelsen, Bjarne Kielsholm-Ribalaygua
  • Patent number: 6975739
    Abstract: A hearing aid includes a signal path having an input transducer, a processor and an output transducer, the hearing aid further including a radio frequency receiver, where the receiver includes a single crystal oscillator providing a single oscillator frequency and where means are provided for generating a further number of receiving frequencies by transforming the oscillator frequency to the desired receiving frequencies. The hearing aid and the RF receiver may be separate or integrated. The invention further relates to a separate element comprising a RF receiver, the separate element being adapted for mounting on a hearing aid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Gudmundur Bogason, Bjarne Klemmensen
  • Patent number: 11736875
    Abstract: There is provided a hearing aid with a Receiver In The Ear speaker assembly comprising a connecting member with electric conductors connecting a connector at one end, and a receiver housing with a receiver at the opposite end. A microphone housing with a microphone is attached to the connecting member. Placed along the connecting member, the microphone housing with the microphone is separated by a distance from the receiver in the receiver housing, thus reducing acoustic or mechanical feedback problems. Especially, the microphone and connector may share one common housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Jacob Anders Roug, Peter Sommer, Martin Larsen, Anders Højsgaard Thomsen, Peter H. Weis, Bjarke Mejnertsen
  • Patent number: 8958587
    Abstract: An audio processing system includes an audio processing device and an external device, the audio processing device having a signal processing unit adapted for running an algorithm for processing an input signal representing an acoustic signal from the environment of the user and providing a processed output signal. The external device includes in an information signal a measure, characteristic of the reverberation of the room or location where the audio processing device is located, and the audio processing device is adapted to extract the measure of the reverberation from the information signal and use the measure as an input to an algorithm that includes a directional algorithm for providing a directional characteristic of the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventor: Jesper Jensen
  • Publication number: 20120281843
    Abstract: A receiving antenna circuit is arranged in a reactive near-field of a modulated magnetic induction signal and forms a narrow band-pass filter. The output of the antenna circuit is not subjected to any frequency translation prior to digitising, and the signal may nevertheless be digitised with low resolution, which radically reduces the power consumption of the receiving circuits. The reduction in power consumption is of several orders of magnitude, which allows implementation of such receiving circuits in battery-driven devices such as hearing devices without substantially affecting the battery life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Kåre Tais CHRISTENSEN, Rasmus Glarborg JENSEN
  • Patent number: 10575106
    Abstract: A hearing aid for comprises an ITE-module and a BTE-module. The ITE module is adapted for being located at or in an ear canal of a user and comprises functional elements for providing a normal function of the hearing aid. The BTE-module is adapted for being located at or behind an ear of the user and comprises a rechargeable battery for providing electric energy to the ITE-module. The hearing aid further comprises a connecting part for mechanically and electrically connecting the ITE-module and the BTE-module. The connecting part comprises at least two electric conductors connected to the rechargeable battery and to the ITE-module to allow provision of electric energy to the ITE-module. The BTE-module may comprise a wireless interface to another device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventors: Martin Bergmann, Poul Henriksen
  • Patent number: 9602933
    Abstract: The invention regards a communication device which is adapted for placement in a users ear. The communication device comprises a shell part enclosing an input transducer for receiving an input signal, a signal processing device and an output N transducer for providing a signal perceivable as sound, a battery located at a surface part of the shell which is facing away from the head of the user, a transmission and reception circuit for transmission and/or reception of electromagnetic energy. According to the invention an antenna for radiating and/or receiving electromagnetic energy is provided such that it has a first surface turned towards the surroundings and a second surface located in close proximity of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventors: Kare T. Christensen, Ove Knudsen
  • Patent number: 8494191
    Abstract: The invention relates to a neckloop for being coupled with a transformer element and for generating an electromagnetic signal for being received by a telecoil of a hearing device or by an induction receiver. In order to avoid strangulation of the person wearing the neckloop the neckloop comprises a teleloop cable having a first end and a second end, and a first magnet and a second magnet for forming a clasp of the neckloop. The first and second magnets are of opposite polarity. The first magnet is provided with a first plating and the second magnet is provided with a second plating. The first plating is in direct contact with the first end and the second plating is in direct contact with the second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventor: Kristian Kiehn Holst