AURUM Mühendislik Sistemleri ve Mimarlık Dergisi
Yazarlar: Murat SERTTAŞ, Serkan KURT
Konular:Mühendislik
Anahtar Kelimeler:MEMS,Load Effect,Incus Ossicle,Voice Signal Analyzing
Özet: Abstract Cochlear implant (CI) hearing aids; is an electronic device designed to help people with severe or very severe hearing loss. The cochlear implant system converts sounds into electrical stimulations and transmits the signals directly to the cochlea. Through stimulated hearing nerves, the brain perceives signals as sound. Unlike other hearing aids, the cost of the cochlear implant hearing aids is very high. There are Med-El, Cochlear, Advanced Bionics and Oticon companies as Cochlear Implant manufacturers in the world. In existing designs, the microphone and sound processor remain outside the ear (outdoor unit) and this design presents a difficulty in terms of aesthetic anxiety and life comfort. Users are forced to remove their devices in some social activities and the hearing ability that is obtained is lost. The aim of this paper is to develop a mathematical model that tests the applicability of the implantation of MEMS on the incus bone in the middle ear, by removing the negative factors that make such social life difficult. In addition, the effect of mechanical loading of the MEMS on the ear model was calculated using developed mathematical method.