Patent ID: 11910165
Assignee: COCHLEAR LIMITED
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A method of evoking a hearing percept, comprising:
removably attaching an external component including a vibrator portion of a passive transcutaneous bone conduction device, a sound processor, and a microphone, to skin of a recipient; and
generating vibrations with the vibrator portion such that the generated vibrations are transferred into skin of the recipient and into underlying bone of the recipient so as to evoke a hearing percept, wherein
the vibrator portion, the sound processor and the microphone are located proximate the area of skin of the recipient into which the generated vibrations are transferred, and
the action of generating vibrations is executed using a transducer with at least two static magnetic flux circuits where a first of the at least two static magnetic flux circuits is located on a first side of a plane normal to a longitudinal axis of the transducer and a second of the at least two static magnetic flux circuits is located on a second side of the plane opposite the first side.