US 11,917,369 B2
Ear level part for a hearing device
Ara Talaslian, Cambridge (CA); Mark Schmidt, Breslau (CA); Ming-Lun Dave Ma, Markham (CA); and Rafael Tamsiran, Amersfoort (NL)
Assigned to Sonova AG, Staefa (CH)
Filed by SONOVA AG, Staefa (CH)
Filed on Jan. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/582,577.
Claims priority of application No. 21154330 (EP), filed on Jan. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0248147 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
Int. Cl. H04R 1/10 (2006.01); H04R 25/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 25/405 (2013.01) [H04R 25/607 (2019.05); H04R 25/652 (2013.01); H04R 2225/0213 (2019.05); H04R 2225/0216 (2019.05)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ear level part for a hearing device, the ear level part comprising:
a body containing at least two microphones acoustically connected to at least two microphone openings, the at least two microphone openings arranged in a microphone line, the body further comprising a flange, wherein a receiver is arranged within the body, wherein the flange has a sound exit for the receiver,
an upper tab generally protruding in a lateral direction from the body and configured to be positioned above the tragus of a user's ear and a lower tab generally protruding in a lateral direction from the body and configured to be positioned beneath the tragus of the user's ear thereby aligning the ear level part in such a way that one or more of the following applies:
the microphone line is horizontal,
the microphone line deviates by an angle of at most +/−15 degrees from a horizontal direction when the user maintains an upright head posture,
the microphone line lies on the tragus,
a perpendicular on the microphone line in the middle between the two microphones lies on the antitragus of the user's ear.