US 12,069,438 B2
Sensor mounting features in a custom-fitted hearing device shell
Janet Glenn, Minneapolis, MN (US); Craig Feldsien, Eden Prairie, MN (US); Toto Saykeo, Eden Prairie, MN (US); and Justin Barlow, Minneapolis, MN (US)
Assigned to STARKEY LABORATORIES, INC., Eden Prairie, MN (US)
Filed by STARKEY LABORATORIES, INC., Eden Prairie, MN (US)
Filed on Aug. 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/893,344.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/251,158, filed on Oct. 1, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0108893 A1, Apr. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. H04R 25/00 (2006.01); G01K 1/08 (2021.01)
CPC H04R 25/60 (2013.01) [G01K 1/08 (2013.01); H04R 25/658 (2013.01)] 20 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;
an elongated sensor assembly;
a mounting bridge that is formed integrally with the shell and formed contiguously with an inner surface of the shell, the mounting bridge comprising a mounting surface that supports the elongated sensor assembly;
an elongated void in the shell that exposes the mounting surface of the mounting bridge; and
an access void that extends from the inner surface to the outer surface of the shell near a first end of the mounting bridge, the access void being larger than a minor cross section of the elongated sensor assembly such that the elongated sensor assembly is able to pass through the access void and be held against the mounting surface, wherein the mounting surface is positioned relative to the outer surface of the shell such that a side of the elongated sensor assembly is proximate to the outer surface.