Patent ID: 9264825
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: H04R

Claim Text:
1. An implantable hearing prosthesis for a recipient patient, the prosthesis comprising: a receiving coil for transcutaneous receiving of an externally generated communication signal; an implantable signal processor in communication with the receiving coil for converting the communication signal into an electrical stimulation signal; an implantable inertial mass signal transducer in communication with the signal processor and including: wherein the one or more electromagnetic drive coils is arranged in a central structure over the inner disk magnet so that current flow through the one or more electromagnetic drive coils from the electrical stimulation signal creates a coil magnetic field that interacts mainly with the magnetic field of the inner disk magnet so as to create vibration in the transducer magnet arrangement which is developed by the signal transducer in response to the inertial mass of the transducer magnet arrangement as a mechanical stimulation signal for audio perception by the patient.