Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Cochlear external device with external microphone
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Application No.: US16999150Application Date: 2020-08-21
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Publication No.: US11297449B2Publication Date: 2022-04-05
- Inventor: Kyou-Sik Min , Woojin Ahn
- Applicant: TODOC Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR Seoul
- Assignee: TODOC Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: TODOC Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Seoul
- Agency: The PL Law Group, PLLC
- Main IPC: H04R25/00
- IPC: H04R25/00 ; A61N1/36

Abstract:
A cochlear external device with an external microphone according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include an external device body attached to a side of the head of a user, an internal microphone embedded in the external device body to collect sound, an external microphone located at the outside of the external device body to be attached around the ear of the user to collect sound, a connection cable configured to connect the external microphone and the external device body in a wired manner; and a control unit embedded in the external device body to generate an output signal based on the sound collected by at least one of the internal microphone and the external microphone and transmit the generated output signal to a cochlear implant transplanter.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210058718A1 COCHLEAR EXTERNAL DEVICE WITH EXTERNAL MICROPHONE Public/Granted day:2021-02-25
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