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Title: |
US3809829:
ACOUSTIC CROS HEARING AID
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Country: |
US United States of America

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Inventor: |
Vignini, Walter R.; Peelskill, NY
Molloy, Martin; Ossining, NY

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Assignee: |
Sonotone Corporation, Elmsford, NY
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Published / Filed: |
1974-05-07
/ 1973-01-16

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Application Number: |
US1973000324102

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IPC Code: |
Advanced:
G02C 11/06;
H04R 25/00;
IPC-7:
G02C 11/06;

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ECLA Code: |
G02C11/06; H04R25/55B; T04R225/53;

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U.S. Class: |
Current:
381/327;
381/337;
Original:
179/107.S;

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Field of Search: |
179/107 S,107 FD

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Priority Number: |
| 1973-01-16 |
US1973000324102 |

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Abstract: |
An eyeglass CROS hearing aid having temple bars one of which has the operative elements of a hearing aid and an acoustic passage from the operative temple bar through said temple bar, the eyeglass frame and the other temple bar to either an earpiece mountable on the other temple bar or an acoustic opening for the microphone.

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Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Ostrolenk, Faber, Gerb & Soffen ;

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Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Blakeslee, Ralph D.;

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INPADOC Legal Status: |
None
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First Claim:
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The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive privilege or
1. An eyeglass hearing aid having a frame and a temple bar on each side;
- microphone, energy supply, amplifier and sound transducing means carried in one of said temple bars;
- each temple bar having a longitudinal acoustic passage therein;
- the sound transducing means in said one of said temple bars being connected to the acoustic passage in said temple bar;
- a connection in each temple bar from the acoustic passage therein to the exterior of said temple bar for transmitting sound from said passage exteriorly thereof,
- a hinge on each side of said frame,
- each temple bar being connected to one of the hinges on each side of said frame and being rotatable from a position substantially normal to the frame toward a position substantially parallel to said frame,
- an acoustic passage through said frame;
- said acoustic passage on each side terminating outside said hinge in an opening directed toward the rear of said frame,
- the end of each temple bar at each hinge extending in a plane outside said hinge, said end engaging the frame when said temple bars are opened to the said position substantially normal to said frame,
- the acoustic passage in each temple bar terminating in the region of said plane and engaging a corresponding opening in the acoustic passage of said frame when the temple bars are opened to the said position substantially normal to said frame and forming a complete continuous acoustic passage from the transducer in said one temple bar through said one temple bar through the frame to the other temple bar including the said connections

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