Patent ID: 7181030

Claim:
Hearing aid with a primary sound-to-electric converting transducer converting environmental sounds into electrical signals, a signal processing unit for amplifying the electrical signals according to needs of a user, a primary electrical-to-sound transducer for receiving the amplified electrical signal and delivering a sound signal to the user's ear, a further sound-to-electrical transducer which has a sensitivity to wind noise which is smaller than the sensitivity to wind noise of the primary transducer, the reduced wind noise sensitivity of the further transducer being provided by placing a sound inlet opening of said further transducer at a wind protected location on a casing of the hearing aid where wind exposure is low and no means for wind protection is provided, and the signal processing unit having means for detecting the level of wind noise in the signal from the primary sound-to-electric converting transducer, and means for selecting the signal to be amplified from either the primary transducer or the further sound-to-electrical transducer.