The exterior component, the speech processor is placed behind the ear, has the size of common hearing aids and receives the sounds with a microphone, or more, and then they are filtered and codified with a predetermined strategy.
The processed signals reach in a coil, which is retained with help of a magnet in the skin at the place of the internal component, which is the receptor.
By there the signal, with the data but also the essential energy for the function of the implant, is transported with the form of electromagnetic waves in the internal component, the implant.