Patent ID: 8073174

Claim:
A fixation element for an implantable microphone, said fixation element comprising first and second members, wherein said first member has a stud adapted for insertion into a bore which crosses a wall of the auditory canal of a user, wherein said stud has a first free end and an opposite second end and encloses a housing part of the microphone at the outer circumference thereof, which housing part is provided with a sound receiving member, and wherein said second member comprises a first flange portion and a sleeve portion, said sleeve portion having opposite first and second ends and being adapted to be slipped, starting with the first end thereof, over said first end of said stud and to be engaged with the stud for preventing at least relative axial movement between the stud and the sleeve portion, and said first flange portion being provided at the second end of the sleeve portion, the first flange portion radially outwardly projecting at an angle of about 90 degrees from a cylindrical surface of the sleeve portion, and being provided with an essentially planar contact surface at least a side thereof that is adapted to engage, in the implanted state of the fixation element, the side of the wall of the auditory canal facing the skin of the auditory canal.