{"oa":1,"status":"public","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Methods, apparatus and computer program products provide efficient techniques for designing and printing shells of hearing-aid devices with a high degree of quality assurance and reliability and with a reduced number of manual and time consuming production steps and operations. These techniques also preferably provide hearing-aid shells having internal volumes that can approach a maximum allowable ratio of internal volume relative to external volume. These high internal volumes facilitate the inclusion of hearing-aid electrical components having higher degrees of functionality and/or the use of smaller and less conspicuous hearing-aid shells. A preferred method includes operations to generate a watertight digital model of a hearing-aid shell by thickening a three-dimensional digital model of a shell surface in a manner that eliminates self-intersections and results in a thickened model having an internal volume that is a high percentage of an external volume of the model. "}],"acknowledgement":"sold to Siemens and Phonak","oa_version":"Published Version","date_published":"2006-05-23T00:00:00Z","applicant":["Phonak AG"],"extern":"1","main_file_link":[{"open_access":"1","url":"https://patents.google.com/patent/US7050876B1"}],"month":"05","citation":{"mla":"Fu, Ping, et al. <i>Manufacturing Methods and Systems for Rapid Production of Hearing-Aid Shells</i>. 2006.","ista":"Fu P, Nekhayev D, Edelsbrunner H. 2006. Manufacturing methods and systems for rapid production of hearing-aid shells.","short":"P. Fu, D. Nekhayev, H. Edelsbrunner, (2006).","ieee":"P. Fu, D. Nekhayev, and H. Edelsbrunner, “Manufacturing methods and systems for rapid production of hearing-aid shells.” 2006.","apa":"Fu, P., Nekhayev, D., &#38; Edelsbrunner, H. (2006). Manufacturing methods and systems for rapid production of hearing-aid shells.","chicago":"Fu, Ping, Dmitry Nekhayev, and Herbert Edelsbrunner. “Manufacturing Methods and Systems for Rapid Production of Hearing-Aid Shells,” 2006.","ama":"Fu P, Nekhayev D, Edelsbrunner H. Manufacturing methods and systems for rapid production of hearing-aid shells. 2006."},"type":"patent","publist_id":"2876","publication_date":"2006-05-23","day":"23","year":"2006","_id":"3511","ipn":"US7050876B1","article_processing_charge":"No","user_id":"8b945eb4-e2f2-11eb-945a-df72226e66a9","title":"Manufacturing methods and systems for rapid production of hearing-aid shells","author":[{"full_name":"Fu, Ping","last_name":"Fu","first_name":"Ping"},{"full_name":"Nekhayev, Dmitry","last_name":"Nekhayev","first_name":"Dmitry"},{"full_name":"Edelsbrunner, Herbert","id":"3FB178DA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Edelsbrunner","orcid":"0000-0002-9823-6833","first_name":"Herbert"}],"ipc":"G06F 9/00","date_created":"2018-12-11T12:03:43Z","date_updated":"2022-01-05T13:03:56Z"}