Optically Driven Wireless Earplug for Communications and Hearing Protection

Abstract

The objective of this work was to develop a wireless link to active electronic earplugs used for communication and active noise reduction for hearing protection in high noise environments. The wireless link was designed to be a local link to the individuals hearing protection or communications earmuff in a double hearing protection situation. The wireless link is to replace the wired link needed for other active earplug implementations so as to improve ease of don and doff of hearing protection while maintaining a reliable two-way link to an active electronic earplug including an ear canal microphone without addition of energy sources in the earplug.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA446623

Entities

People

  • James Janousek
  • James Wilt
  • Jeffrey Buchholz
  • Toby Klusmeyer

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Ambient Noise
  • Detectors
  • Ear
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Hearing Protection
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Information Operations
  • Light Sources
  • Microphones
  • Noise
  • Noise Reduction
  • Optical Interconnects
  • Standards
  • Wireless Communications

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Acoustics.
  • Computer Networking

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems