ARRANGEMENT FOR MECHANICAL COUPLING OF A DRIVER TO A COUPLING SITE OF THE OSSICULAR CHAIN

摘要

An implantable arrangement for mechanical coupling of an output driverpart of an active or passive hearing system, the driver part being excitabletomechanically vibrate, to a preselected coupling site in the middle or innerear,such as on the ossicular chain, the footplate of the stapes or the membranewhichcloses the round window or an artificial window in the cochlea, in thevestibulumor in the labyrinth (equilibrium organ), via a coupling arrangement which hasacoupling element which can be connected to the preselected coupling site. Thearrangement is provided with an attenuator which adjoins the coupling site intheimplanted state and which has entropy-elastic properties.