Conference paper
8 Pin RIC Socket for Hearing Aid Applications
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.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | Research Publishing Services |
Year: | 2012 |
Pages: | 241-249 |
Proceedings: | 9th International Conference on Multi-Material Micro Manufacture (4M2012) |
ISBN: | 9810733534 and 9789810733537 |
Types: | Conference paper |
DOI: | 10.3850/978-981-07-3353-7325 |
ORCIDs: | Islam, Aminul and Hansen, Hans Nørgaard |