Membrane design of vibration transducer to drive round window to increase vibration displacement

Author

Lee, Jang Woo ; Lim, Hyung Gyu ; Jung, Eui Sung ; Seong, Ki Woong ; Lee, Jyung Hyun ; Kim, Jee Hyun ; Kim, Myoung Nam ; Cho, Jin Ho

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Kyungpook Nat. Univ., Daegu, South Korea

fYear

2012

fDate

5-7 Jan. 2012

Firstpage

541

Lastpage

543

Abstract

Many kinds of hearing aids have been developed to overcome hearing loss. Each hearing aid has their own method to improve hearing threshold level of the patient. In case of vibration transducer to drive round window, a part of implantable hearing aid, uses the vibration displacement to compensate the hearing level. However, the vibration displacement is limited by membrane size made of metal, when it has been fixed dimensions. In this paper, several form of vibration transducer membrane to drive round window to increase vibration displacement has been proposed. It is calculated using finite element analysis. It is confirmed the vibration displacement can be higher in limited size.

Keywords

biomedical transducers; biomembranes; finite element analysis; hearing; hearing aids; prosthetics; vibrations; finite element analysis; fixed dimensions; hearing loss; implantable hearing aid; membrane design; round window drive; vibration displacement; vibration transducer membrane; Argon; Elasticity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), 2012 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2176-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-2175-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BHI.2012.6211638

Filename

6211638