Concept and Evaluation of a New Piezoelectric Transducer for an Implantable Middle Ear Hearing Device

Implantable middle ear hearing devices (IMEHDs) have been developed as a new technology to overcome the limitations of conventional hearing aids. The piezoelectric cantilever transducers currently used in the IMEHDs have the advantages of low power consumption and ease of fabrication, but generate l...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2017-11, Vol.17 (11), p.2515
Main Authors: Liu, Houguang, Cheng, Jinlei, Yang, Jianhua, Rao, Zhushi, Cheng, Gang, Yang, Shanguo, Huang, Xinsheng, Wang, Mengli
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Auditory defects
Deafness
Ear
Ear Ossicles
evaluation studies
Harmonic distortion
Hearing Aids
Hearing loss
Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
Hearing protection
Humans
implantable middle ear hearing device
incus body
Middle ear
New technology
piezoelectric stack
piezoelectric transducer
Prosthesis Design
Sound pressure
temporal bone
Transducers
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
cited_by cdi_FETCH-LOGICAL-c469t-61eb5c941d3761fc20c9dd7a01d4f93406f836e88b4fafb1b70f99c1b614cac53
cites cdi_FETCH-LOGICAL-c469t-61eb5c941d3761fc20c9dd7a01d4f93406f836e88b4fafb1b70f99c1b614cac53
container_end_page
container_issue 11
container_start_page 2515
container_title Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
container_volume 17
creator Liu, Houguang
Cheng, Jinlei
Yang, Jianhua
Rao, Zhushi
Cheng, Gang
Yang, Shanguo
Huang, Xinsheng
Wang, Mengli
description Implantable middle ear hearing devices (IMEHDs) have been developed as a new technology to overcome the limitations of conventional hearing aids. The piezoelectric cantilever transducers currently used in the IMEHDs have the advantages of low power consumption and ease of fabrication, but generate less high-frequency output. To address this problem, we proposed and designed a new piezoelectric transducer based on a piezoelectric stack for the IMEHD. This new transducer, attached to the incus body with a coupling rod, stimulates the ossicular chain in response to the expansion-and-contraction of its piezoelectric stack. To test its feasibility for hearing loss compensation, a bench testing of the transducer prototype and a temporal bone experiment were conducted, respectively. Bench testing results showed that the new transducer did have a broad frequency bandwidth. Besides, the transducer was found to have a low total harmonic distortion (
doi_str_mv 10.3390/s17112515
format article
fullrecord <record><control><sourceid>proquest_doaj_</sourceid><recordid>TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_c21d064ca6fc46ac9cc43b65a0bf5595</recordid><sourceformat>XML</sourceformat><sourcesystem>PC</sourcesystem><doaj_id>oai_doaj_org_article_c21d064ca6fc46ac9cc43b65a0bf5595</doaj_id><sourcerecordid>1977871554</sourcerecordid><originalsourceid>FETCH-LOGICAL-c469t-61eb5c941d3761fc20c9dd7a01d4f93406f836e88b4fafb1b70f99c1b614cac53</originalsourceid><addsrcrecordid>eNpdkk1vEzEQQFcIREvhwB9AlrjAIWCv7d31BalKUxqpfBzK2Zodj4OjzTrYu0Hl17NpStRyGst-82Y0nqJ4LfgHKQ3_mEUtRKmFflKcClWqWVOW_OmD80nxIuc156WUsnlenJSGG8NVfVrQPPZI24FB79hiB90IQ4g9i54B-0q_2fdAfyJ1hEMKyG4S9NmNSIn5mKYkttxsO-gHaDtiX4JzU1hAYlcEKfQrdkG7gPSyeOahy_TqPp4VPy4XN_Or2fW3z8v5-fUMVWWGWSWo1WiUcLKuhMeSo3GuBi6c8kYqXvlGVtQ0rfLgW9HW3BuDoq2EQkAtz4rlwesirO02hQ2kWxsh2LuLmFYW0hCwI4ulcLya0io_FQc0iEq2lQbeeq3N3vXp4NqO7YYcUj8k6B5JH7_04addxZ3VtZCiVJPg3b0gxV8j5cFuQkbqpnFRHLMVptZccmXqCX37H7qOY-qnUe2puqmF1nvh-wOFKeacyB-bEdzuF8EeF2Fi3zzs_kj--3n5F4JxrbU</addsrcrecordid><sourcetype>Open Website</sourcetype><iscdi>true</iscdi><recordtype>article</recordtype><pqid>1977871554</pqid></control><display><type>article</type><title>Concept and Evaluation of a New Piezoelectric Transducer for an Implantable Middle Ear Hearing Device</title><source>PubMed (Medline)</source><source>Publicly Available Content (ProQuest)</source><creator>Liu, Houguang ; Cheng, Jinlei ; Yang, Jianhua ; Rao, Zhushi ; Cheng, Gang ; Yang, Shanguo ; Huang, Xinsheng ; Wang, Mengli</creator><creatorcontrib>Liu, Houguang ; Cheng, Jinlei ; Yang, Jianhua ; Rao, Zhushi ; Cheng, Gang ; Yang, Shanguo ; Huang, Xinsheng ; Wang, Mengli</creatorcontrib><description>Implantable middle ear hearing devices (IMEHDs) have been developed as a new technology to overcome the limitations of conventional hearing aids. The piezoelectric cantilever transducers currently used in the IMEHDs have the advantages of low power consumption and ease of fabrication, but generate less high-frequency output. To address this problem, we proposed and designed a new piezoelectric transducer based on a piezoelectric stack for the IMEHD. This new transducer, attached to the incus body with a coupling rod, stimulates the ossicular chain in response to the expansion-and-contraction of its piezoelectric stack. To test its feasibility for hearing loss compensation, a bench testing of the transducer prototype and a temporal bone experiment were conducted, respectively. Bench testing results showed that the new transducer did have a broad frequency bandwidth. Besides, the transducer was found to have a low total harmonic distortion (&lt;0.75%) in all frequencies, and small release time (1 ms). The temporal bone experiment further proved that the transducer has the capability to produce sufficient vibrations to compensate for severe sensorineural hearing loss, especially at high frequencies. This property benefits the treatment of the most common sloping high-frequency sensorineural hearing loss. To produce a 100 dB SPL equivalent sound pressure at 1 kHz, its power consumption is 0.49 mW, which is low enough for the transducer to be utilized in the IMEHD.</description><identifier>ISSN: 1424-8220</identifier><identifier>EISSN: 1424-8220</identifier><identifier>DOI: 10.3390/s17112515</identifier><identifier>PMID: 29099047</identifier><language>eng</language><publisher>Switzerland: MDPI AG</publisher><subject>Auditory defects ; Deafness ; Ear ; Ear Ossicles ; evaluation studies ; Harmonic distortion ; Hearing Aids ; Hearing loss ; Hearing Loss, Sensorineural ; Hearing protection ; Humans ; implantable middle ear hearing device ; incus body ; Middle ear ; New technology ; piezoelectric stack ; piezoelectric transducer ; Prosthesis Design ; Sound pressure ; temporal bone ; Transducers</subject><ispartof>Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2017-11, Vol.17 (11), p.2515</ispartof><rights>Copyright MDPI AG 2017</rights><rights>2017 by the authors. 2017</rights><lds50>peer_reviewed</lds50><oa>free_for_read</oa><woscitedreferencessubscribed>false</woscitedreferencessubscribed><citedby>FETCH-LOGICAL-c469t-61eb5c941d3761fc20c9dd7a01d4f93406f836e88b4fafb1b70f99c1b614cac53</citedby><cites>FETCH-LOGICAL-c469t-61eb5c941d3761fc20c9dd7a01d4f93406f836e88b4fafb1b70f99c1b614cac53</cites><orcidid>0000-0002-5450-5958</orcidid></display><links><openurl>$$Topenurl_article</openurl><openurlfulltext>$$Topenurlfull_article</openurlfulltext><thumbnail>$$Tsyndetics_thumb_exl</thumbnail><linktopdf>$$Uhttps://www.proquest.com/docview/1977871554/fulltextPDF?pq-origsite=primo$$EPDF$$P50$$Gproquest$$Hfree_for_read</linktopdf><linktohtml>$$Uhttps://www.proquest.com/docview/1977871554?pq-origsite=primo$$EHTML$$P50$$Gproquest$$Hfree_for_read</linktohtml><link.rule.ids>230,314,723,776,780,881,25731,27901,27902,36989,36990,44566,53766,53768,74869</link.rule.ids><backlink>$$Uhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29099047$$D View this record in MEDLINE/PubMed$$Hfree_for_read</backlink></links><search><creatorcontrib>Liu, Houguang</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Cheng, Jinlei</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Yang, Jianhua</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Rao, Zhushi</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Cheng, Gang</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Yang, Shanguo</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Huang, Xinsheng</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Wang, Mengli</creatorcontrib><title>Concept and Evaluation of a New Piezoelectric Transducer for an Implantable Middle Ear Hearing Device</title><title>Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)</title><addtitle>Sensors (Basel)</addtitle><description>Implantable middle ear hearing devices (IMEHDs) have been developed as a new technology to overcome the limitations of conventional hearing aids. The piezoelectric cantilever transducers currently used in the IMEHDs have the advantages of low power consumption and ease of fabrication, but generate less high-frequency output. To address this problem, we proposed and designed a new piezoelectric transducer based on a piezoelectric stack for the IMEHD. This new transducer, attached to the incus body with a coupling rod, stimulates the ossicular chain in response to the expansion-and-contraction of its piezoelectric stack. To test its feasibility for hearing loss compensation, a bench testing of the transducer prototype and a temporal bone experiment were conducted, respectively. Bench testing results showed that the new transducer did have a broad frequency bandwidth. Besides, the transducer was found to have a low total harmonic distortion (&lt;0.75%) in all frequencies, and small release time (1 ms). The temporal bone experiment further proved that the transducer has the capability to produce sufficient vibrations to compensate for severe sensorineural hearing loss, especially at high frequencies. This property benefits the treatment of the most common sloping high-frequency sensorineural hearing loss. To produce a 100 dB SPL equivalent sound pressure at 1 kHz, its power consumption is 0.49 mW, which is low enough for the transducer to be utilized in the IMEHD.</description><subject>Auditory defects</subject><subject>Deafness</subject><subject>Ear</subject><subject>Ear Ossicles</subject><subject>evaluation studies</subject><subject>Harmonic distortion</subject><subject>Hearing Aids</subject><subject>Hearing loss</subject><subject>Hearing Loss, Sensorineural</subject><subject>Hearing protection</subject><subject>Humans</subject><subject>implantable middle ear hearing device</subject><subject>incus body</subject><subject>Middle ear</subject><subject>New technology</subject><subject>piezoelectric stack</subject><subject>piezoelectric transducer</subject><subject>Prosthesis Design</subject><subject>Sound pressure</subject><subject>temporal bone</subject><subject>Transducers</subject><issn>1424-8220</issn><issn>1424-8220</issn><fulltext>true</fulltext><rsrctype>article</rsrctype><creationdate>2017</creationdate><recordtype>article</recordtype><sourceid>PIMPY</sourceid><sourceid>DOA</sourceid><recordid>eNpdkk1vEzEQQFcIREvhwB9AlrjAIWCv7d31BalKUxqpfBzK2Zodj4OjzTrYu0Hl17NpStRyGst-82Y0nqJ4LfgHKQ3_mEUtRKmFflKcClWqWVOW_OmD80nxIuc156WUsnlenJSGG8NVfVrQPPZI24FB79hiB90IQ4g9i54B-0q_2fdAfyJ1hEMKyG4S9NmNSIn5mKYkttxsO-gHaDtiX4JzU1hAYlcEKfQrdkG7gPSyeOahy_TqPp4VPy4XN_Or2fW3z8v5-fUMVWWGWSWo1WiUcLKuhMeSo3GuBi6c8kYqXvlGVtQ0rfLgW9HW3BuDoq2EQkAtz4rlwesirO02hQ2kWxsh2LuLmFYW0hCwI4ulcLya0io_FQc0iEq2lQbeeq3N3vXp4NqO7YYcUj8k6B5JH7_04addxZ3VtZCiVJPg3b0gxV8j5cFuQkbqpnFRHLMVptZccmXqCX37H7qOY-qnUe2puqmF1nvh-wOFKeacyB-bEdzuF8EeF2Fi3zzs_kj--3n5F4JxrbU</recordid><startdate>20171102</startdate><enddate>20171102</enddate><creator>Liu, Houguang</creator><creator>Cheng, Jinlei</creator><creator>Yang, Jianhua</creator><creator>Rao, Zhushi</creator><creator>Cheng, Gang</creator><creator>Yang, Shanguo</creator><creator>Huang, Xinsheng</creator><creator>Wang, Mengli</creator><general>MDPI AG</general><general>MDPI</general><scope>CGR</scope><scope>CUY</scope><scope>CVF</scope><scope>ECM</scope><scope>EIF</scope><scope>NPM</scope><scope>AAYXX</scope><scope>CITATION</scope><scope>3V.</scope><scope>7X7</scope><scope>7XB</scope><scope>88E</scope><scope>8FI</scope><scope>8FJ</scope><scope>8FK</scope><scope>ABUWG</scope><scope>AFKRA</scope><scope>AZQEC</scope><scope>BENPR</scope><scope>CCPQU</scope><scope>DWQXO</scope><scope>FYUFA</scope><scope>GHDGH</scope><scope>K9.</scope><scope>M0S</scope><scope>M1P</scope><scope>PIMPY</scope><scope>PQEST</scope><scope>PQQKQ</scope><scope>PQUKI</scope><scope>PRINS</scope><scope>7X8</scope><scope>5PM</scope><scope>DOA</scope><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5450-5958</orcidid></search><sort><creationdate>20171102</creationdate><title>Concept and Evaluation of a New Piezoelectric Transducer for an Implantable Middle Ear Hearing Device</title><author>Liu, Houguang ; Cheng, Jinlei ; Yang, Jianhua ; Rao, Zhushi ; Cheng, Gang ; Yang, Shanguo ; Huang, Xinsheng ; Wang, Mengli</author></sort><facets><frbrtype>5</frbrtype><frbrgroupid>cdi_FETCH-LOGICAL-c469t-61eb5c941d3761fc20c9dd7a01d4f93406f836e88b4fafb1b70f99c1b614cac53</frbrgroupid><rsrctype>articles</rsrctype><prefilter>articles</prefilter><language>eng</language><creationdate>2017</creationdate><topic>Auditory defects</topic><topic>Deafness</topic><topic>Ear</topic><topic>Ear Ossicles</topic><topic>evaluation studies</topic><topic>Harmonic distortion</topic><topic>Hearing Aids</topic><topic>Hearing loss</topic><topic>Hearing Loss, Sensorineural</topic><topic>Hearing protection</topic><topic>Humans</topic><topic>implantable middle ear hearing device</topic><topic>incus body</topic><topic>Middle ear</topic><topic>New technology</topic><topic>piezoelectric stack</topic><topic>piezoelectric transducer</topic><topic>Prosthesis Design</topic><topic>Sound pressure</topic><topic>temporal bone</topic><topic>Transducers</topic><toplevel>peer_reviewed</toplevel><toplevel>online_resources</toplevel><creatorcontrib>Liu, Houguang</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Cheng, Jinlei</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Yang, Jianhua</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Rao, Zhushi</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Cheng, Gang</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Yang, Shanguo</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Huang, Xinsheng</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Wang, Mengli</creatorcontrib><collection>Medline</collection><collection>MEDLINE</collection><collection>MEDLINE (Ovid)</collection><collection>MEDLINE</collection><collection>MEDLINE</collection><collection>PubMed</collection><collection>CrossRef</collection><collection>ProQuest Central (Corporate)</collection><collection>ProQuest - Health &amp; Medical Complete保健、医学与药学数据库</collection><collection>ProQuest Central (purchase pre-March 2016)</collection><collection>Medical Database (Alumni Edition)</collection><collection>Hospital Premium Collection</collection><collection>Hospital Premium Collection (Alumni Edition)</collection><collection>ProQuest Central (Alumni) (purchase pre-March 2016)</collection><collection>ProQuest Central (Alumni)</collection><collection>ProQuest Central</collection><collection>ProQuest Central Essentials</collection><collection>AUTh Library subscriptions: ProQuest Central</collection><collection>ProQuest One Community College</collection><collection>ProQuest Central</collection><collection>Health Research Premium Collection</collection><collection>Health Research Premium Collection (Alumni)</collection><collection>ProQuest Health &amp; Medical Complete (Alumni)</collection><collection>Health &amp; Medical Collection (Alumni Edition)</collection><collection>Medical Database</collection><collection>Publicly Available Content (ProQuest)</collection><collection>ProQuest One Academic Eastern Edition (DO NOT USE)</collection><collection>ProQuest One Academic</collection><collection>ProQuest One Academic UKI Edition</collection><collection>ProQuest Central China</collection><collection>MEDLINE - Academic</collection><collection>PubMed Central (Full Participant titles)</collection><collection>DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals</collection><jtitle>Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)</jtitle></facets><delivery><delcategory>Remote Search Resource</delcategory><fulltext>fulltext</fulltext></delivery><addata><au>Liu, Houguang</au><au>Cheng, Jinlei</au><au>Yang, Jianhua</au><au>Rao, Zhushi</au><au>Cheng, Gang</au><au>Yang, Shanguo</au><au>Huang, Xinsheng</au><au>Wang, Mengli</au><format>journal</format><genre>article</genre><ristype>JOUR</ristype><atitle>Concept and Evaluation of a New Piezoelectric Transducer for an Implantable Middle Ear Hearing Device</atitle><jtitle>Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)</jtitle><addtitle>Sensors (Basel)</addtitle><date>2017-11-02</date><risdate>2017</risdate><volume>17</volume><issue>11</issue><spage>2515</spage><pages>2515-</pages><issn>1424-8220</issn><eissn>1424-8220</eissn><abstract>Implantable middle ear hearing devices (IMEHDs) have been developed as a new technology to overcome the limitations of conventional hearing aids. The piezoelectric cantilever transducers currently used in the IMEHDs have the advantages of low power consumption and ease of fabrication, but generate less high-frequency output. To address this problem, we proposed and designed a new piezoelectric transducer based on a piezoelectric stack for the IMEHD. This new transducer, attached to the incus body with a coupling rod, stimulates the ossicular chain in response to the expansion-and-contraction of its piezoelectric stack. To test its feasibility for hearing loss compensation, a bench testing of the transducer prototype and a temporal bone experiment were conducted, respectively. Bench testing results showed that the new transducer did have a broad frequency bandwidth. Besides, the transducer was found to have a low total harmonic distortion (&lt;0.75%) in all frequencies, and small release time (1 ms). The temporal bone experiment further proved that the transducer has the capability to produce sufficient vibrations to compensate for severe sensorineural hearing loss, especially at high frequencies. This property benefits the treatment of the most common sloping high-frequency sensorineural hearing loss. To produce a 100 dB SPL equivalent sound pressure at 1 kHz, its power consumption is 0.49 mW, which is low enough for the transducer to be utilized in the IMEHD.</abstract><cop>Switzerland</cop><pub>MDPI AG</pub><pmid>29099047</pmid><doi>10.3390/s17112515</doi><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5450-5958</orcidid><oa>free_for_read</oa></addata></record>
fulltext fulltext
identifier ISSN: 1424-8220
ispartof Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2017-11, Vol.17 (11), p.2515
issn 1424-8220
1424-8220
language eng
recordid cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_c21d064ca6fc46ac9cc43b65a0bf5595
source PubMed (Medline); Publicly Available Content (ProQuest)
subjects Auditory defects
Deafness
Ear
Ear Ossicles
evaluation studies
Harmonic distortion
Hearing Aids
Hearing loss
Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
Hearing protection
Humans
implantable middle ear hearing device
incus body
Middle ear
New technology
piezoelectric stack
piezoelectric transducer
Prosthesis Design
Sound pressure
temporal bone
Transducers
title Concept and Evaluation of a New Piezoelectric Transducer for an Implantable Middle Ear Hearing Device
url http://sfxeu10.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/loughborough?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&ctx_tim=2025-02-09T07%3A01%3A49IST&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_ctx_fmt=infofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rfr_id=info:sid/primo.exlibrisgroup.com:primo3-Article-proquest_doaj_&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Concept%20and%20Evaluation%20of%20a%20New%20Piezoelectric%20Transducer%20for%20an%20Implantable%20Middle%20Ear%20Hearing%20Device&rft.jtitle=Sensors%20(Basel,%20Switzerland)&rft.au=Liu,%20Houguang&rft.date=2017-11-02&rft.volume=17&rft.issue=11&rft.spage=2515&rft.pages=2515-&rft.issn=1424-8220&rft.eissn=1424-8220&rft_id=info:doi/10.3390/s17112515&rft_dat=%3Cproquest_doaj_%3E1977871554%3C/proquest_doaj_%3E%3Cgrp_id%3Ecdi_FETCH-LOGICAL-c469t-61eb5c941d3761fc20c9dd7a01d4f93406f836e88b4fafb1b70f99c1b614cac53%3C/grp_id%3E%3Coa%3E%3C/oa%3E%3Curl%3E%3C/url%3E&rft_id=info:oai/&rft_pqid=1977871554&rft_id=info:pmid/29099047&rfr_iscdi=true