Starkey "Hearing Ambassador" Hear Pen Screening Audiometer
The Starkey "Hearing Ambassador" Hear Pen was a simple screening
audiometer made by Starkey Laboratories, Inc. of Eden Prairie, MN in
1990.
The Hear Pen received and FDA 510 (k) Medical Device Product Code "EWO"
(Audiometer) on August 6, 1990.
The Hear Pen was made of black plastic and measured 5¾" long. The
main part of the body was ½" in diameter (14.7 x 1.3 cm). It weighed 0.9
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Front view of the top of the Starkey "Hearing Ambassador" Hear Pen
showing the name "Hearing Ambassador Hear Pen" and below that, "Can you
hear the tone in both ears?" and below that in smaller letters, "Patents
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Top front view of the Starkey "Hearing Ambassador" Hear Pen showing the
Starkey logo at the top with the pen clip below it. Stamped on the pen
clip at the top is "USA" and running down the clip "DORC4".
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Close-up
View of the pen clip showing the metal contact plate. To activate the
Hear Pen, you simply squeezed the pen clip until it touched the metal
plate thus completing the circuit. |
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View of the "face" of the Starkey "Hearing Ambassador" Hear Pen. It
produced a tone (possibly 1,000 Hz) in the miniature speaker for a quick
test of a person's hearing at that frequency.
The diameter of the "face" was ¾" (1.9 cm).
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Bottom view of the Starkey "Hearing Ambassador" Hear Pen. On the
metal part is engraved "Pat. No. 3806724" which was a patent issued in
1974 for a conductor tube that is commonly used in flashlights.
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