| US 7,571,006 B2 | ||
| Wearable alarm system for a prosthetic hearing implant | ||
| Brian Gordon, c/o IP Department, Cochlear Limited 14-16 Mars Road, Lane Cove 2066 (Australia); Roger Leigh, c/o IP Department, Cochlear Limited 14-16 Mars Road, Lane Cove 2066 (Australia); Tadeusz Jurkiewicz, c/o IP Department, Cochlear Limited 14-16 Mars Road, Lane Cove 2066 (Australia); and Kiangkai Tankongchumruskul, c/o IP Department, Cochlear Limited 14-16 Mars Road, Lane Cove 2066 (Australia) | ||
| Filed on Jul. 17, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/487,402. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2005903755 (AU), filed on Jul. 15, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0055321 A1, Mar. 08, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. A61N 1/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 607—57 [607/60] | 19 Claims |
| 1. A prosthetic hearing implant kit comprising:
internal components configured to be implanted in a recipient and comprising an internal coil;
external components configured to be worn by the recipient and comprising an external coil adapted to be inductively coupled
with said internal coil; and
an alert system having a second external coil, the alert system adapted to receive and analyze one or more characteristics
of an external signal and to transmit an alarm signal to said implanted components via said second external coil for providing
the recipient with corresponding alarm indication when said alert system determines said external signal to constitute an
alarm event based at least on the analysis of said one or more characteristics.
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