US 12,069,421 B2
Antenna designs for hearing instruments
Ezdeen Elghannai, Eden Prairie, MN (US); and Thaddeus Hoffman, Mounds View, MN (US)
Assigned to Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US)
Filed by Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US)
Filed on Mar. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/657,070.
Application 17/657,070 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2020/053246, filed on Sep. 29, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/909,023, filed on Oct. 1, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0225011 A1, Jul. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. H04R 1/10 (2006.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01)
CPC H04R 1/1041 (2013.01) [H04R 1/1058 (2013.01); H04R 2420/07 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An antenna for a hearing instrument, wherein the antenna is connected to:
a first feedline segment extending laterally along a first inner lateral surface of a shell of the hearing instrument, and
a second feedline segment extending laterally along the first inner lateral surface of the shell of the hearing instrument, and
wherein the antenna comprises:
a first arm connected to the first feedline segment and initially extending in an inferior direction, along the first inner lateral surface of the shell, from the first feedline segment; and
a second arm connected to the second feedline segment, wherein:
the second arm includes a first lateral segment, a superior segment, and a second lateral segment,
the first lateral segment extends in a superior direction along the first inner lateral surface of the shell from the second feedline segment,
the superior segment extends in a sagittal direction along an inner superior surface of the shell, and
the second lateral segment extends in the inferior direction along a second inner lateral surface of the shell.