TY - GEN

T1 - 8 Pin RIC Socket for Hearing Aid Applications

A1 - Islam,Aminul

A1 - Hansen,Hans Nørgaard

A1 - Davids,Søren

A1 - Kristensen,Lars

AU - Islam,Aminul

AU - Hansen,Hans Nørgaard

AU - Davids,Søren

AU - Kristensen,Lars

PB - Research Publishing Services

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - The current paper presents the development of an 8 Pin RIC (Receiver in the canal) Socket for hearing instruments within the framework of the COTECH project. There are 8 industrial demonstrators developed in COTECH based on the converged product and process design. Sonion’s 8 Pin RIC Socket is one of them. 8 Pin RIC Socket is a functionally versatile product which can combine many different functions and presents many advantages compared with the previous 3 Pin RIC Socket. For the demonstrator production of the new Socket, two different production concepts were chosen- one based on semi-automated process and the other one is fully automated process. This paper presents the entire process chain for both the concepts and makes a comparative analysis based on the experimental investigation and validation. The work presented here can be a source of valuable information for industrial users and researchers working with micro production of metal-plastic hybrid components.

AB - The current paper presents the development of an 8 Pin RIC (Receiver in the canal) Socket for hearing instruments within the framework of the COTECH project. There are 8 industrial demonstrators developed in COTECH based on the converged product and process design. Sonion’s 8 Pin RIC Socket is one of them. 8 Pin RIC Socket is a functionally versatile product which can combine many different functions and presents many advantages compared with the previous 3 Pin RIC Socket. For the demonstrator production of the new Socket, two different production concepts were chosen- one based on semi-automated process and the other one is fully automated process. This paper presents the entire process chain for both the concepts and makes a comparative analysis based on the experimental investigation and validation. The work presented here can be a source of valuable information for industrial users and researchers working with micro production of metal-plastic hybrid components.

KW - 8 Pin RIC Socket

KW - Hearing aid

KW - Injection moulding

KW - Metal insert

U2 - 10.3850/978-981-07-3353-7 325

DO - 10.3850/978-981-07-3353-7 325

SN - 978-981-07-3353-7

BT - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Multi-Material Micro Manufacture

T2 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Multi-Material Micro Manufacture

A2 - Dimov,Stefan

ED - Dimov,Stefan

SP - 241

EP - 249

ER -