US 12,294,827 B2
Cable retention features in a custom-fitted hearing device shell
Janet Glenn, Minneapolis, MN (US); Justin Barlow, Minneapolis, MN (US); Cha Lee, Eden Prairie, MN (US); Craig C. Feldsien, Eden Prairie, MN (US); and Fue Yang, Minneapolis, MN (US)
Assigned to Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US)
Filed by STARKEY LABORATORIES, INC., Eden Prairie, MN (US)
Filed on Aug. 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/889,041.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/239,201, filed on Aug. 31, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0062085 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. H04R 1/10 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 1/1066 (2013.01) [H04R 1/1016 (2013.01); H04R 1/1091 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ear-wearable electronic device, comprising:
a shell having a uniquely-shaped outer surface that corresponds uniquely to an ear geometry of a user of the ear-wearable device; and
a mounting structure that is formed contiguously with the shell and intersecting an inner surface of the shell, the mounting structure comprising a mounting surface operable to fixably mount a sensor to the shell, the mounting structure defining a void that extends from the inner surface to the outer surface of the shell, wherein the mounting structure comprises a reference feature that is positioned relative to the outer surface of the shell such that the sensor is located at a target orientation relative to the outer surface and wherein the target orientation results in:
a surface of the sensor being located within the void within a threshold distance below the outer surface of the shell to prevent protrusion into an ear surface of the user; or
the surface of the sensor extending out of the outer surface of the shell by a protrusion distance into the ear surface of the user.