Patent ID: 8666102
Filing Date: 2014-03-04
Classification: A61F,H04R

Abstract:
1. A hearing system, comprising: at least one earpiece to be worn at least partly in a user's ear canal, the at least one earpiece having a shell, an elongate retention element attached to the shell for retaining the shell within the user's ear canal, and an insert unit, the shell having a substantially straight sound tube portion carrying a soft tip which is to be inserted into the user's ear canal, an outwardly oriented interface portion for detachably receiving the insert unit, and an engagement portion located between the substantially straight sound tube portion and the interface portion for engaging with the tragus/anti-tragus region of the ear, wherein a material and dimensions of the retention element are such that the retention element is engageable with a user's concha by manual deformation by the user, and wherein the insert unit is one of a filter unit with at least one of a sound attenuation filter and an active electronic unit with at least a loudspeaker, and an external electronic unit, which is to be worn on a user's body below a user's neck, the external electronic unit being connected to the active electronic unit via a cable connection wherein the substantially straight sound tube portion is laterally offset relative to the interface portion in such a manner that, when seen as a projection along an axial direction of the substantially straight sound tube portion, the substantially straight sound tube portion is displaced from any symmetry axis of the interface portion, and wherein the engagement portion comprises a sound channel extending from the interface portion to the substantially straight sound tube portion, the sound channel of the engagement portion being angled relative to the axial direction of the substantially straight sound tube portion.