Vibration modeling and design of piezoelectric floating mass transducer for implantable middle ear hearing devices

IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences

Volumn E90-A, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1620-1627

  Hong, Eung Pyo ^a,c   Kim, Min Kyu ^a   Park, Il Yong ^a   Lee, Seung Ha ^b   Roh, Yongrae ^a   Cho, Jin Ho ^a  

^a Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^b Dankook University   (South Korea)

^c Korea Orthopedics Rehabilitation Engineering Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Implantable middle ear hearing device; Vibration transducer

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AUDITION; ELASTICITY; HEARING AIDS; METAL IMPLANTS; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; TRANSDUCERS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

ELASTIC MATERIALS; FLOATING MASS TRANSDUCERS; HEARING DEVICES; IMPLANTABLE MIDDLE EAR; SIMPLE STRUCTURES; VIBRATION CHARACTERISTICS; VIBRATION DISPLACEMENTS; VIBRATION TRANSDUCER;

VIBRATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 55649124561     PISSN: 09168508     EISSN: 17451337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e90-a.8.1620     Document Type: Conference Paper

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