A new electromagnetic hearing aid using lightweight coils to vibrate the ossicles

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 3387-3393

  Hamanishi, Shinji ^a   Koike, Takuji ^b   Matsuki, Hidetoshi ^a   Wada, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic; Hearing aid; Middle ear; Ossicles; Rare earth magnet; Tympanic membrane

Indexed keywords

EAR PROTECTORS; ELECTRIC COILS; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEARING AIDS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; TRANSDUCERS; VIBRATION CONTROL;

MIDDLE EAR; OSSICLES; RARE-EARTH MAGNET; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS;

EID: 4644355480     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2004.834190     Document Type: Article

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