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 driver part of an active or passive hearing system, the driver part being excitable to mechanically vibrate, to a preselected coupling site in the middle or inner ear, such as on the ossicular chain, the footplate of the stapes or the membrane which closes the round window or an artificial window in the cochlea, in the vestibulum or in the labyrinth (equilibrium organ), via a coupling arrangement which ha s a coupling element which can be connected to the preselected coupling site. Th e arrangement is provided with an attenuator which adjoins the coupling site i n the implanted state and which has entropy-elastic properties.