Patent ID: 8401211

Claim:
A hearing device with an acoustical-to-electrical converter arrangement, an electrical-to-mechanical converter arrangement, at least one audio signal processing unit with an input operationally connected to an output of said acoustical-to-electrical converter arrangement and with an output operationally connected to an input of said electrical-to-mechanical converter arrangement and further with an Rf antenna and an Rf signal processing unit operationally connected to said Rf antenna and to said audio signal processing unit, wherein said Rf antenna is incorporated in a first module and said audio signal processing unit is incorporated in a second module, said first and second modules being completely incorporated within an outer shell of the hearing device, said first and second modules being mechanically and electrically interconnected by a releasable positive locking link, wherein said first module with the Rf antenna is interchangeable with a different first module with a different Rf antenna having a different spatial orientation, and Rf communications of the hearing device are changed when the first module is replaced with the different first module.