Patent ID: 7499561

Claim:
A hearing aid, comprising: a housing for accommodating the hearing aid and having an opening; a cone arranged within the opening via supports, the cone having a tip on a narrowmost end pointing into an interior of the bearing aid housing; a converter having a cylindrical portion positioned within the opening of the housing; and an attenuation ring positioned between an interior wall of the housing and the cylindrical portion of the converter effective to fix the converter within the opening in an attenuating manner; wherein the cone is disposed within an interior portion of the attenuation ring; wherein the cone further comprises a tapering cross-section that continuously reduces in diameter from a front end of the cone to a rear end of the cone and from a front end of the opening to the converter: and wherein the attenuation ring further comprises an opening angle that reduces in inner diameter from a front end of the attenuation ring, the front end of the attenuation ring facing the opening.