Patent ID: 6198971
Filing Date: 2001-03-06
Classification: A61N,H04R

Abstract:
An at least partially implantable system for rehabilitation of a hearing disorder, comprising:an arrangement for at least one of processing and generating signals including an implantable hearing processor arrangement with control logic which operates according to an operating program and an implantable storage arrangement for storage of the operating program and of operating parameters;a wireless telemetry means for data transmission between an implantable part of the system and an external unit; anda power supply arrangement which supplies individual components of the system with current;wherein said implantable storage arrangement is rewritable and assigned to the processor arrangement for holding and reproducing the operating program and the operating parameters, of the processor arrangement and at least a portion of at least one of the operating program and of the operating parameters is adapted to be at least one of modified and replaced by data transmitted from the external unit via the telemetry means for changing the manner in which the processor arrangement will respond to at least one of a given audiological input and a power management input.