Hearing device including a battery and an acoustic valve

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PATENT NO 11290830
APP PUB NO 20210144492A1
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17094615

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An illustrative hearing device includes a battery having a battery voltage, a microphone for transducing sound into an input signal, a processor configured to be operated with an operating voltage and to generate an output signal from the input signal, a speaker for transducing the output signal to an acoustic signal, and a valve. An acoustic effect of the valve is adjustable by applying a valve voltage, wherein the adjustment is controllable by the processor. The hearing device comprises a voltage regulator configured to generate the operating voltage from the battery voltage, wherein the operating voltage is less than the battery voltage and wherein the valve voltage is greater than the operating voltage.

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SONOVA AGSWISS SHI TAIFA STAFA ZURICH

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Cherigui, Fethi Adliswil, CH 9 13
Landolt, Christian Mollis, CH 3 7
Riepenhoff, Matthias Hombrechtikon, CH 19 114
Van, Oerle Gerard Uster, CH 8 59
Weibel, Manuel Erlenbach, CH 6 17

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