| 摘要 |
An intra-oral digital audio player device 16 can be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a removable oral appliance 18 or other oral device to form an intraoral MP3 player 14. The player has a mouth wearable housing, a data storage device positioned in the mouth wearable housing to store digital audio and a transducer mounted on the mouth wearable housing and in vibratory communication with one or more teeth or other bone structure, such as the maxillary, mandibular, or palatine bone structure. The electronics and transducer assembly 16 may receive incoming sounds either directly or through a receiver to process and amplify the signals and transmit the processed sounds by bone conduction via a vibrating transducer element coupled to a tooth or other bone structure. The oral appliance may be a custom-made device fabricated from a thermal forming process utilizing a replicate model of a dental structure obtained by conventional dental impression methods. The audio player may have a radio receiver for receiving AM or FM broadcast content. |
