AURICA Every User manual

USER MANUAL

Your Hearing Aid.........................................................................................5
Usage/Safety Tips......................................................................................7
Contraindications.........................................................................8
Care for Your Hearing Aid...........................................................................8
Battery Replacement................................................................................10
Using Every................................................................................................11
Switching ON/OFF....................................................................................13
Insertial and Removal..............................................................................14
Maintenance................................................................................16
Trimmer Controls......................................................................................17
Accessories/Cleaning solutions.............................................................17
Troubleshooting.......................................................................18
Package.........................................................................19
Packing and Storage...............................................................................20
Reclamations....................................................................20
Disposal.............................................................................21
Warranty..............................................................................22
Contents
All rights reserved. No part of this document may be copied,
reproduced or distributed in any form without express written
permission from AURICA Ltd. or ONKOCET Ltd.
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Your Hearing Aid
Read this User Manual before using AURICA Every hearing aid. The
User Manual contains the description of the device, operating princi-
ple, technical characteristics and operating instructions for AURICA
Every Hearing Aid (further - HA).
Safety Signs
Refer to User Manual/booklet
General safety sign
General prohibitory sign
General warning sign
Your Hearing Aid is connected by the earhook to the customized earmold
that ts comfortably in your ear. This mold was crafted directly from the
ear impression taken by your hearing professional. Your Hearing Aid may
be programmed to match your particular hearing requirements. These pa-
rameters have been set by your professional or the manufacturer and are
not adjustable by the wearer. We are condent that your listening enjoyment
will be enhanced by the attention given to the performance and appearance.
Features
• 1-8 Channel WDRC.
• Up to 4-6 memories.
• 8-16 Band equalizer.
• Memory Selection Button.
• Volume control.
• Telecoil.
• Auto telecoil (option).
• Audio Input.
• LED indication of operating modes (option).
• On/Off switch built into battery door.
• Adaptive Noise Reduction – algorithm monitors noise levels independent-
ly in 128 individual bands and employs advanced psychoacoustic models to
provide user’s comfort.
• Evoke Advanced Programmable multi−frequency tones simulating musi-
cal notes or chords Acoustic Indicators for Low Battery, Power On events
and Memory Changes.
• In−situ – tone generatorm selection, volume setting and ambient sound
levels.
European Authorised/
Authorized Representative
This User Manual, including the specications, is an aperating manual for the AURICA
Every Hearing Aid
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Your Hearing Aid Usage/Safety Tips
• Adaptive Feedback Canceller – Automatically reduces acoustic feedback
and allows for an increase in the stable gain while minimizing artifacts for
music and tonal input signals.
• Tinny Mask - Tinnitus is a disease caused by various reasons and other
described as ringing and buzzing in ears This kind of noise may become
very irritating for people with hearing impairments, exacerbating their prob-
lems with perception and decoding the audio stream. the innovative design
solution offered by Aurica – built-in tinnitus musker - eliminate the inconve-
nience of having to use two different devices.
• The iSceneDetect environmental classication algorithm is capable of
analyzing the hearing aid user’s acoustic environment and automatically
optimizes the hearing aid to maximize comfort and audibility.
• Data logging - enables the recording of various hearing aid parameters
such as program selection, volume setting and ambient sound levels.
• 3D Plazma technology - The unique technology of 3D Plazma is a reli-
able protection against moisture and dirt ! Most hearing aids are afraid of
water. Drops of water or sweat falling on the body penetrate into the device
and lead to the failure of its importamt elements (chip, microphone, receiver,
etc.). Thanks to its nanocoating 3D PLazma signicantly improves moisture
resistance of the hearing instrument as water getting inside does not wet
the surface of the electronic components and simply evaporates over time.
Every hearing aids are intended for sound amplication through the air con-
duction, to compensate severe hearing loss. In Every , modern production
technologies are used - Nano coating that ensures protection of a device
from moisture and dirt; parts made by the world leading manufacturers;
shockproof plastic body, etc. This ensures a high reliability of products and
excellent quality of sound.
Before using the HA, read carefully following the further safety instructions
and important information
Please note
• Protect your HA from mechanic impact.
• Avoid exposure to moisture (rain, sauna, shower, greenhouse etc.).
• Take your HA off when putting on cosmetics and hygiene solutions (hair-
spray, cream, lotion etc.).
• If you HA got wet, don’t try drying it under high temperatures (blow dry,
microwave oven, stove, etc.).
• High temperatures will damage the device, so avoid the direct exposure to
sun.
• If you are not using the device for a long time, remove the battery.
• The maintenance of the device must be done only by a specialist.
• Take off the device when you are being medically examined (for example
when getting X-Ray or CAT done).
• Keep the batteries separately from medications. You can easily confuse
them with pills.
• Hearing aids, their parts and batteries need to be kept away from
children, pets and mentally challenged people.
• Be careful with leaking batteries. The liquid inside them is
harmful for your health.
• If you have swallowed a battery, immediately seek medical atten-
tion.
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Contraindications Care for Your Hearing Aid
Hearing aid is contraindicated in case of:
• Malfunction of vestibular apparatus;
• Acute and chronic disease in outer and middle ear;
• In the rst months after cerebral meningitis and hearing improve
ment surgeries;
• Allergic intolerance to ear ttings/
HA requires careful handling. The paper handling ensures the safe
operation of the HA. Keep your HA clean. Wipe it regularly with a
soft cloth (Pic.1). Never wash your HA with water, cleaning solu-
tions or other liquids. Remove ear wax from your ears, because it
can affect the functionality of the HA or even break the device. If
your HA was exposed to excessive moisture, dry it with a special
kit, remove the batter before you start drying. To avoid damages,
keep the HA in a special case.
Earmold care
Earmold is an important part of your HA, that’s why it’s necessary to keep it
clean.
Cleaning of earmolds
Carefully separate the tube from the main body. Gently wash the mold with
warm, soapy water or place it in a special solution for 15-30 minutes (Pic.2).
After the treatment, the mold has to be dried completely. If there is still mois-
ture in the tube or in the mold, use the airblowing device (Pic.3). If the ear-
mold’s tube has lost its elasticity, become yellowish and cracked, it should be
replaced. Consult your a hearing aid specialist about this problem
Care for your Hearing Aid
Never use any spirit solution for cleaning the earmold. Never treat the
hearing aid with the earmold cleaning solution.
pic. 1
pic. 2 pic. 3
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Using EveryBattery Replacement
Use the batteries specially intended for the HA!
pic. 4a pic. 4b pic. 4c
Using wrong batteries (for watch etc.) can wreck the device.
In this case the warranty doesn’t cover the maintenance!
Gently swing out the battery door with your ngernail and then open it
completely (Pic.4a), take a new battery, take the tab off and wait 1 minute
so the battery could become saturated with oxygen to increase its energy
(Pic.4b). Insert the new battery into the battery compartment with plus(+)
sign on the battery facing the same way as the (+) sign on the edge of the
battery door. This will ensure that the battery door closes properly (Pic.4c).
Put the battery ONLY in the door of the battery compartment.
Note: If the battery is inserted incorrectly, the door will not close.
Never press too hard close the door of the battery compartment.
Lower amplication power and volume, or spontaneous shutdown
indicates a low battery.
Buying a hearing aid, bear in mind that it will take some time to get used to
new sounds and sensations. How much time this process will take depends
on the individual peculiarities of an organism, level of hearing loss, time
spent using the HA, etc. If you start feeling discomfort while using the HA ,
you need to lower the volume or turn it off and take a break.
While watching TV set the volume to a medium level. If you have a hard
time distinguishing sounds, turn the volume up using the volume comtrol.
However, you should remember that turning the volume up very high doesn’t
always improve your perception of speech, but can cause sudden fatigue
and provoke the deterioration of hearing.
In a noisy environment it’s pretty hard to distinguish certain words, so don’t
be embarrasswd to ask again.
The volume is adjusted with the volume adjuster - switching from position 1
(min volume) up to position 4 (max volume) (Pic. 5, 7).
pic. 5 pic. 6
pic. 7 pic. 8
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Using Every Switching ON/OFF
Мy Hearing Aid has a volume control (read below)
Мy Hearing Aid has a button to switch programs Рiс.(6, 8)
Besides, you can change the listening conditions with the program selec-
tion button (Pic. 6, 8). Switching the programs, you can choose the listen-
ing mode appropriate for different situations: microphone mode, telephone
mode (telecoil), mic+telecoil and tinnitus masker mode.
The listening parameters are set by an expert when tting and ad-
justing your hearing aid.
1. To increase the volume, rotate forward (Piс. 7,9).
2. To decrease the volume, rotate back (Piс. 10).
pic. 9 pic. 10
Your Hearing Aid has a three-position battery door that acts as an OFF/ON
switch and that allows access to the battery compartment. To turn the Hear-
ing Aid on, close the battery door fully (Pic. 11b, 12b).
To turn OFF: open the battery door until it clicks, so the battery is no longer
touching the contacts (Pic. 11a, 12a).
pic. 11a pic. 11b
pic. 12a pic. 12b
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Insertion and Removal Insertion and Removal
pic. 13 pic. 14 pic. 15
In-The-Ear hearing aids
To insert a hearing aid in the ear:
1 . Hold the shell between your thumb and forenger (Pic. 16).
2 . Insert the tip of the hearing aid into the ear canal and gently press the shell
with your nger tip to position it correctly (Pic. 17).
To remove the hearing aid:
Hold the shell between your thumb and forenger and twisting it carefully pull
the hearing aid up and out of the ear.
For the hearing aids with removal handle: hold the removal handle and gently
pull the hearing aid up and out of the ear.
Tips
• The rst days after you start using a hearing aid, you will feel it in your ear, and
there is nothing unusual in that. In a while, you will get used to it and won’t feel
any inconvenience. You will need some time to get used to wearing a hearing
aid – little by little increase the wearing time every day.
• When you only start using a hearing aid, there may be some irritation in your
ear because of a foreign object. In this case, ask for specialist advice.
• In case of any allergic reactions, ask for specialist advice.
• In case of intensive sweating and earwax formation, consult a specialist.
• For easier insertion of a hearing aid, you may gently pull your ear up to make
the ear canal wider. A hearing aid is inserted correctly if it ts tightly into the
ear and you do not feel it inside.
• Check if your hearing aid is positioned properly in the ear canal using a mirror.
The hearing aid must not be seen.
Before placing the BTE onto your ear, be sure the battery is inserted
and the battery compartment door is closed securely. Also make sure
that ON/OFF switch is set to OFF.
To insert, hold the earmold on the outer side near the tubing with your thumb
and forenger (Pic.13).
The upper part of the earmold must be directed upwards. The tube must be
directed to the ear canal.
If expenencing difcultes, pull down the earlobe or pull the auride back or up
and gently insert the earmold into the ear. (Pic. 14)
The directed upwards elastic part must t into place. (Pic. 15)
pic. 16 pic. 17
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Insertional and Removal Trimmer Controls
To properly insert the elastic part you need to:
• With the fornger try to place it under the skin crease
• At the same time, with the other hand pull the ear up and back
• After you have inserted the earmold, carefully place the Hearing Aid behind
the ear.
• Try not to twist the tube.
It’s not recommended to pull the earmold tubing , otherwise it can be
damaged, which will require repair or change of the earmold.
Maintenance
Trimmer controls are under the lid of your Hearing Aid (Pic.18), placed in the
upper part of the frame. The lid must always be closed to avoid the penetra-
tion of dust and moisture. In case the lid is lost, consult a specialist.
The specialist determines the position of trimmer controls while examining
a patient, in accordance with individual characteristics of your hearing loss
(audiogram).
pic. 18a pic. 18b
Don’t open the lid of the trimmer compartment and change the
controls position in your HA by yourself.
Maintenance is necessary to avoid expensive and complicated repairs and
ensure the uninterrupted performance of the device. Free-of-charge main-
tenance is performed during the warranty period and applies only to the
parts covered by the warranty (see “Limited Warranty”).
To obtain maintenance services, contact your hearing aid specialist (seller
of the device). The same specialist can advise you on the “post-warranty”
maintenance service.
Accessories/Cleaning solutions
Care Products:
• Cleaning kit;
• Drying container;
• Drying tablets;
• Earpiece;
• Battery (see color chart) Brown –312, Blue – 675, Yellow – 10, Orange – 13.
You can get detailed information about the accessories and HA
cleaning solutions(and their prices) from a hearing aid specialist.
To remove, take the instrument out from behind your ear and gently pull the
earmold outwards.
Pulling down on the ear lobe may help loosen the earmold when it is being
removed.
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Trouble Shooting Package
The device is not functioning:
- Make sure the battery is inserted correctly in the battery compartment (see
“Battery Replacement”).
- Make sure the battery door lid is closed completely.
- Make sure the battery isn’t dead.
- Make sure the earmold tubing isn’t dirty.
- Check the tube for ear wax and condensate, clean it if necessary.
If there is condensate or moisture in your hearing instrument, put it in a special
container with a drying tablet.
The sound is too quiet,static or breaking up:
- Check the volume control.
- Make sure the battery isn’t dead.
- Make sure the earmold tubing isn’t dirty.
- Make sure there isn’t any condensate or ear wax in the tube; clean it if neces-
sary.
- If there is condensate or moisture in your HA, put it in a special container with
a drying tablet.
If all the attempts to x the problem are unsuccessful , contact your hearing
aid specialist.
The HA is whistling:
- The earmold does not sit tight enough in the ear canal. Take it out and put
it in again.
- Make sure the tubing is not damaged. If it needs to be changed, contact
a specialist.
- The earmold is deformed, it needs to be replaced with a new one. Ear wax has
built up in the ear tubing. Contact the specialist, so he cleans it up.
- Your ear canal shape has changed. You need to contact the specialist to have
a new earmold made.
The set consists of______________items
Customer’s signature_________________
Customer’s signature
Hearing Aid Aurica family Every
Models__________________________________________________
Complies with specication TU 9444-006-81271212-2014
and is serviceable.
Registration №___________________________________________
Serial №__________________________________________________
Q.C. Passed
№ of
Item Name of Item
Quantity
1 Hearing Aid 1
2 Batteries 6
3 Earmolds 5
4 User Manual 1
5 Case 1
6Box 1
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Package and Storage
Package and Transportation
The Hearing Aid is packed into the plastic case and cardboard.
Technical documentation is plotted in the watertight packet and is packed
together with the housing SPO.
The Hearing Aid can be transported by any means of transport excluding
non-heated airplane sections, climatic conditions must correspond to the
national standard GOST 15150, Group 5.
Storage
For short term the « Hearing Aid » must be stored indoors at 10…40C tem-
perature, and relative humidity must be 85 per cent at temperature of 25C.
For long term the « Hearing Aid » must be stored at a warehouse of a manu-
facturer or EU representant/dealer in accordance with store conditions of
the national standards GOST 15150.
Disposal
Disposal of packaging - packaging components (cardboard,
plastics, etc.) are all classied as solid waste and can be
therefore easily disposed of with the use of recycling processes.
Before disposal is always advisable that you check the validity of the rel-
evant provisions in the place of installation.
Please make proper disposal!
Product disposal – Aerocryotherapeutic complex is made
of various materials. Most of them (plastic, metal, electric
conductors, etc.) may be handed over in recycling sites and can
be recycled. However, other components (electric plates, etc.) may con-
tain hazardous substances. Therefore the following components should
be submitted in the respective centers or the European representive of the
producer, where the qualied spesialists ensure their disposal.
Before disposal is always advisable that you check the validity of the rel-
evant provisions of the disposal site.
Please make proper disposal!
Reclamations
For a reclamations the following form must be lled in:
Initial
exploitation
date
Problem
occurrenced
date
Brief
description
of problem
Comments
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Warranty
For repair (change) within the warranty term
Medical device - «Hearing Aid»
Technical conditions TU 9444-006-81271212-2014
Number and production data_________________________________________
Purchased_________________________________________________________
(date, signature and stamp of seller)
set in operation____________________________________________________
(date, signature)
accepted for warranty ______________________________________________
Your Hearing Aid is covered with warranty. This warranty covers only man-
ufacturing defects and/or materials used to make the hearing instrument
to Aurica’s design and manufacturing specications and tolerances. Your
hearing professional may have issued a warranty or service plan that goes
beyond the provisions of this Warranty.
The Warranty period begins when you rst take the delivery of your hear-
ing instrument from an authorized hearing professional and expires twenty
four months later (“warranty period”).
The warranty does not cover the accessories, such as batteries,
ear tubing, earmolds, etc!
Please examine the warranty together with a hearing aid specialist and
make sure you ll out the warranty card correctly.
WARRANTY CERTIFICATE

0197
«Aurica» Ltd,
Russia, 300026 Tula,
Ryazanskaya street 4.
Tel.: [phone],
E-mail:[email protected],
www.aurica.ru
EU REP ONKOCET Ltd.,
Kutuzovova 4, 90102
Pezinok, Slovakia
Tel.: [phone]
Email: [email protected]
www.onkocet.eu
Last revision: - June 10th 2016
Technical DATA:
Voltage 1,2V
Current 2mA
Applied pert type BF