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A method operates a hearing device system which has a hearing device with a microphone and a further sensor for measuring a value characterizing the heart rate of a user. The value characterizing the heart rate of the user is measured by the further sensor. A first audio signal based on an ambient sound is produced by of the microphone. The voice of the user is identified in the first audio signal and a second audio signal is produced on the basis thereof. The second audio signal is divided up into a plurality of segments depending on the characterizing value. A hearing device system is provided for operating the method.

A charging contact connection for a charger of an electrical device, in particular a hearing aid, includes a central contact pin for contacting a first counter-contact of a counter-contact connection, and a permanent-magnetic magnet element enclosing the contact pin for magnetically attracting the counter-contact connection. A contact element disposed on the front face facing the counter-contact connection guides and focuses the magnetic field of the magnetic element in the direction of a second counter-contact of the counter-contact connection. A charging contact system and an electrical device are also provided.

A hearing instrument system has a hearing instrument with a housing and at least one loudspeaker arranged in the housing connected to an environment of the housing via a sound conduction channel. The hearing instrument system further has a controller configured to ascertain whether at least one starting condition for initiating a cleaning mode for the sound conduction channel is present. If the or one of multiple, as appropriate, starting conditions is present, initiate the cleaning mode, and during the cleaning mode, output an audio signal with a specified waveform with a varying period using the loudspeaker.

A method operates a hearing device having a hearing aid and an electronic device coupled thereto for signal transmission. The hearing aid has tap detection for detecting a tapping movement of a hearing aid user on a hearing aid housing. The tap detection has a stored detection threshold, and contact with the hearing aid housing is detected as a tapping movement if the detection threshold is reached or exceeded. The electronic device has a number of different device functions which can be triggered by the tap detection. If an event of the electronic device occurs which does not directly result from an action of the hearing aid user: a notification of the event is sent from the electronic device to the hearing aid user and the detection threshold is reduced if a bodily movement of the hearing aid user is detected within a stored response time since the notification.

A state of health of a battery cell used in a hearing instrument is ascertained. For each of a plurality of charging cycles, a battery manager of the hearing instrument ascertains a charge transferred to the battery cell and a number of charging characteristic values that provides information about the change in a state of charge of the battery cell brought about by the charge. Based on the transferred charge and the charging characteristic values a capacity characteristic value is ascertained that forms a characteristic variable for a present charging capability of the battery cell. A signal processor averages respective capacity characteristic values of at least some past charging cycles at a specific time and calculates an averaged charging capacity. The averaged charging capacity is compared with a reference value representing an original capacity of the battery cell to determine the state of health of the battery cell.

A hearing aid module has a printed circuit board, at least one first electronics component, and a shield. The first electronics component is mounted on a top of the printed circuit board. The shield has a carrier material and a coating applied to the carrier material. The carrier material and the coating cover the first electronics component. The printed circuit board has at least one grounding layer exposed on a side surface of the printed circuit board. The coating is guided onto the side surface so that on the side surface, and the coating is electrically connected to the grounding layer. Furthermore, a hearing aid incorporates the hearing aid module and a method manufactures the hearing aid module.

A hearing device has a motherboard and a receiver module. The receiver module is configured for wireless charging of a battery and, for that purpose, has a coil wound around an axial direction. The motherboard has a top section that extends perpendicular to the axial direction and in a radial direction. The top section of the motherboard and the receiver module are stacked in the axial direction.

A circularly polarized antenna for a hearing instrument has a ground layer and an exciter layer separated from the ground layer by a first dielectric layer, coupled to a signal port routed through the first dielectric layer and the ground layer. In addition, the antenna has a top layer arranged on the side of the exciter layer facing away from the ground layer and separated from the exciter layer by a second dielectric layer. The top layer is connected to the ground layer at four locations by interconnecting a respective capacitance and/or a respective inductance.

A loudspeaker system for a hearing device to be worn in the ear has a loudspeaker with a housing, which has a sound exit opening that is arranged in a coupling surface of the housing. The loudspeaker system additionally has an antenna body, which has a carrier plate formed with a sound passage opening, a carrier sleeve rigidly connected to the carrier plate and fluidically connected to its sound passage opening, and an antenna coil wound around the carrier sleeve. Furthermore, the loudspeaker system has a damping body made of a yielding material, by way of which the loudspeaker is coupled using its coupling surface with the carrier plate of the antenna body.

A method operates a hearing system that has first and second hearing devices. In the first hearing device, a first reference signal and a first auxiliary signal are generated from an environment sound collected by microphones. A first pre-processed signal is generated by applying a direction-sensitive pre-processing to the first reference and auxiliary signals using first reference and first auxiliary pre-processing coefficients. For the microphones, a respective first reference head related transfer function and first auxiliary head related transfer function are provided, and a first head related transfer function is derived from the first reference and first auxiliary pre-processing coefficients and from the first reference and auxiliary head related transfer functions. For the second hearing device a second pre-processed signal is generated using second microphones, and a second position related transfer function is provided. A direction-sensitive signal processing task is performed on the first and second pre-processed signals.