Hearing instrument and associated binaural hearing system
A hearing instrument includes a housing wearable in an ear of a user and having a concha portion, a thin canal portion protruding from the concha portion, a receiver and a mechanically rigidly connected electronics unit including a battery, a signal processor and two microphones. The electronics unit is accommodated in the concha portion such that, in the intended wearing position of the hearing instrument, an upper side of the electronics unit faces away from the head of the user and a lower side of the electronics unit faces the head of the user. Each microphone is disposed on the upper side of the electronics unit, centered relative to a horizontal plane aligned approximately parallel to the transverse plane of the head of the user in the wearing position and intersects the concha portion of the housing centrally. A binaural hearing system is also provided.
1 . A hearing instrument, comprising:
a housing being wearable in an ear of a user in an intended wearing position of the hearing instrument, said housing including a concha portion and a canal portion being thinner than said concha portion and protruding from said concha portion;
a mechanically rigidly connected electronics unit including a battery, a signal processor and two microphones;
a receiver;
said electronics unit being accommodated in said concha portion, said electronics unit having an upper side facing away from the head of the user and a lower side facing the head of the user, in the intended wearing position;
each of said two microphones being disposed on said upper side of said electronics unit and centered relative to a horizontal plane, said horizontal plane being aligned approximately parallel to a transverse plane of the head of the user in the intended wearing position and intersecting said concha portion centrally; and
an antenna disposed in said electronics unit for an electromagnetic data transfer, said antenna having a base point centered on said electronics unit relative to said horizontal plane.
2 . The hearing instrument according to claim 1 , wherein said base point of said antenna is disposed on an edge of said upper side of said electronics unit distant from said canal portion of said housing.
3 . The hearing instrument according to claim 1 , wherein:
said battery is rechargeable;
an electrical charging connector for charging said battery is disposed in said electronics unit; and
said charging connector is centered relative to said horizontal plane.
4 . The hearing instrument according to claim 3 , wherein said charging connector has an axially symmetrical configuration.
5 . The hearing instrument according to claim 1 , wherein said receiver is accommodated at least partially in said canal portion separately from said electronics unit.
6 . A binaural hearing system, comprising:
first and second hearing instruments each being constructed according to claim 1 ;
one of said first and second hearing instruments being configured for the right ear and another of said first and second hearing instruments being configured for the left ear of the user;
said housings of said first and second hearing instruments being at least substantially mirror symmetrical; and
said electronics units of said first and second hearing instruments being identically constructed.
7 . The binaural hearing system according to claim 6 ,
wherein said receivers of said first and second hearing instruments are identically constructed.
8 . The binaural hearing system according to claim 6 , wherein:
said housings of said first and second hearing instruments are disposed mirror symmetrically relative to one another; and
said electronics units of said first hearing instrument and said electronics unit of said second hearing instrument are rotated through 180° relative to one another and inserted into said respective mirror symmetrical housings of said first and second hearing instruments.