IPC분류정보
국가/구분 |
United States(US) Patent
등록
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국제특허분류(IPC7판) |
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출원번호 |
US-0654985
(2012-10-18)
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등록번호 |
US-8657063
(2014-02-25)
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발명자
/ 주소 |
- Lederman, Jo Ann
- Arrieta, Agustin
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출원인 / 주소 |
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대리인 / 주소 |
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인용정보 |
피인용 횟수 :
1 인용 특허 :
43 |
초록
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A device structured to assist the hearing of a user by being removably connected to and disposing a user's ear in an enhanced hearing orientation. The device includes an elongated base, which may be disposable, and has a sufficient length to be disposed in an operative position behind the user's ear
A device structured to assist the hearing of a user by being removably connected to and disposing a user's ear in an enhanced hearing orientation. The device includes an elongated base, which may be disposable, and has a sufficient length to be disposed in an operative position behind the user's ear. Opposite ends of the base include an adhesive material secured to a common side thereof, wherein different ones of said opposite ends are respectively disposed and maintained in confronting engagement with a rear surface of the ear and adjacently disposed portion of the user's head. The base further includes biasing capabilities disposed and structured to exert a sufficient, forwardly and outwardly directed force on the user's ear to dispose and maintain it in the enhanced hearing orientation, when the base is in the operative position.
대표청구항
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1. The device structured to dispose an ear of the user in an enhanced hearing orientation, said device comprising: an elongate base formed of a flexible material and structured to be disposed between a naturally assumed orientation, an operative position behind the ear of a user,said naturally assum
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The device structured to dispose an ear of the user in an enhanced hearing orientation, said device comprising: an elongate base formed of a flexible material and structured to be disposed between a naturally assumed orientation, an operative position behind the ear of a user,said naturally assumed orientation comprising a substantially linear configuration along the length of said base,said base including two opposite ends and an adhering structure disposed on each of said ends on a common side of said base,said base including a biasing capability including an inherent bias, said inherent bias operative to normally bias said base from said operative position into said naturally assumed orientation,said operative position at least initially comprising a longitudinally curved configuration along at least a majority of the length of said base,said operative position further comprising each of said opposite ends disposed in removable connection with a different one of a rear surface of the ear and an adjacent hard tissue portion of the head behind the ear,said biasing capabilities and said opposite ends cooperatively structured to exert a pushing force concurrently on the rear surface of ear and the adjacent hard tissue head portion, when said base is in said operative position, andsaid pushing force being sufficient to dispose the ear forwardly and outwardly from the head into said enhanced hearing orientation. 2. A device as recited in claim 1 wherein said longitudinally curved configuration at least initially comprises a substantially U-shaped configuration. 3. A device as recited in claim 1 wherein said biasing capability comprises a biasing member mounted on and extending along at least a majority of an exterior surface of said base, opposite to said an adhering structure. 4. A device as recited in claim 1 wherein said biasing capability is defined by said base at least partially formed from an inherently biased material. 5. A device as recited in claim 1 wherein said two opposite ends comprise a first opposite end and a second opposite end, said first opposite end having a greater transverse dimension and larger configuration than said second opposite end. 6. A device as recited in claim 5 wherein said operative position further comprises said first opposite end disposed in removable connection with the adjacent head portion and said second opposite end concurrently connected to the rear surface of the ear. 7. A device as recited in claim 6 wherein said operative position is further defined by said first opposite end being removably connected to an adjacent hard tissue portion of the head. 8. A device as recited in claim 5 wherein said base comprises an intermediate portion disposed between and in interconnecting relation with said first and second opposite ends. 9. A device as recited in claim 8 wherein each of said first and second opposite ends includes a transverse dimension greater than a transverse dimension of an intermediate portion of said base. 10. A device as recited in claim 9 wherein the transverse dimension of said first opposite end is greater than transverse dimension of the second opposite end. 11. A device as recited in claim 1 wherein said adhering structure comprises an adhesive material. 12. A device as recited in claim 11 wherein said adhesive material is disposed and structured to removably and concurrently secure said two opposite ends to the rear surface of the ear and the adjacent head portion of the user when said base is in said operative position. 13. A device as recited in claim 1 wherein said base is dimensioned and configured to be unobservable behind the ear from at least a frontal viewing of the ear, when said base is in said operative position. 14. A device as recited in claim 13 wherein the length of said base is sufficient to interconnect said opposite ends, when said base is in said operative position and during said exertion of said pushing force concurrently on the rear surface of the ear and the adjacent head portion. 15. A device structured to dispose an ear of the user in an enhanced hearing orientation, said device comprising: an elongate base formed of a flexible material and movable between a naturally assumed orientation and an operative orientation,said naturally assumed orientation comprising a substantially linear, configuration along the at least a majority of the length of said base,said base including two opposite ends and an adhesive disposed at least on said opposite ends on a common side of said base,said base structured to include an inherent bias operative to normally bias said base out of said operative orientation into said naturally assumed orientation,said operative orientation at least initially comprising a longitudinally curved configuration along at least a majority of the length of said base,said base disposable in an operative position when in said operative orientation; said operative position further comprising each of said opposite ends disposed in adhesively secured removable connection with a different one of a rear surface of the ear and an adjacent hard tissue portion of the head,the length of said base and said two opposite ends being dimensioned and configured to be unobservable behind the ear, from at least a frontal viewing of the ear, when said base is in said operative position,said biasing capability and said opposite ends cooperatively structured to exert a pushing force concurrently on the rear surface of the ear and the adjacent hard tissue portion of the head, when said base is in said operative position, andsaid pushing force being sufficient to dispose the ear forwardly and outwardly from the head into said enhanced hearing orientation. 16. A device as recited in claim 15 wherein said base comprises an intermediate portion disposed between and in interconnecting relation with said two opposite ends; a first of said two opposite ends including a transverse dimension greater than a second of said two opposite ends. 17. A device as recited in claim 16 wherein said operative position further comprises said first opposite end disposed in said adhesively secured, removable connection with the hard tissue portion of the head. 18. A device as recited in claim 15 wherein said longitudinally curved configuration may at least initially comprise a substantially U-shaped configuration.
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