公开(公告)号：US20240007777A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-04

申请号：US18039555

申请日：2021-09-24

Applicant: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.

Inventor： Michael Karl Sacha ,  Kyle Olson ,  Ryan Christensen ,  Fa Wang ,  Peter Flanagan

IPC: H04R1/10 ,  A61B5/00 ,  H04R25/00

CPC classification number: H04R1/1016 ,  A61B5/6816 ,  A61B5/0004 ,  H04R1/105 ,  H04R25/554 ,  H04R25/609 ,  H04R2225/55 ,  H04R2460/11

Abstract: An ear-wearable electronic device includes a first near-field communication (NFC) device and a transfer region configured to facilitate transfer of a wearable sensor unit into an ear of a wearer or onto an outer ear of the wearer or a surface of the wearer's head adjacent the outer ear. The wearable sensor unit comprises electronic circuitry comprising a second NFC device configured to communicatively couple to the first NFC device and facilitate wireless transfer of power from the ear-wearable electronic device to the wearable sensor unit and wireless transfer of data at least from the wearable sensor unit to the ear-wearable electronic device, and one or more sensors configured to measure at least one physiologic parameter or physiologic condition of the wearer. The wearable sensor unit and the ear-wearable electronic device are configured to remain mechanically decoupled from one another subsequent to deployment of the wearable sensor unit.