FULL-BODY CHARGER FOR BATTERY-POWERED PATIENT IMPLANTABLE DEVICE
    2.
    发明公开
    FULL-BODY CHARGER FOR BATTERY-POWERED PATIENT IMPLANTABLE DEVICE 审中-公开
    用于电池全身充电器操作装置植入患者体内

    公开(公告)号:EP1438102A4

    公开(公告)日:2009-02-25

    申请号:EP02802792

    申请日:2002-10-17

    摘要: A full-body charger (118) for charging one or more battery-powered devices wherein such devices (100) are configured for implanting beneath a patient's skin for the purpose of tissue, e.g., nerve or muscle, stimulation and/or parameter monitoring and/or data communication. Devices in accordance with the invention include a support structure, typically chair-shaped (160) or bed-shaped (166), capable of supporting a patient's body while providing a magnetic field to one or more of the implanted devices using one or more coils mounted within for providing power to the implanted devices. Consequently, in a preferred embodiment, a single, generally sequential, charging cycle can charge all of the implanted devices and thus minimize the charge time requirements for a patient and accordingly improve the patient's life style.

    ELECTRODE ARRAY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE.
    4.
    发明公开
    ELECTRODE ARRAY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE. 失效
    超前网络,及其制造方法。

    公开(公告)号:EP0272308A4

    公开(公告)日:1989-03-29

    申请号:EP87904451

    申请日:1987-06-17

    IPC分类号: A61B5/042 A61N1/05

    摘要: The electrode array is a device for making multiple electrical contacts with cellular tissue or organs. The electrode array includes a base (1), a two dimensional array of conducting protuberances (2) arising from the base and serving as electrodes, and conductors (3) embedded onto the base and connected to such protuberances for transmitting electrical signals to and/or from the protuberances. The protuberances may also include an insulating layer (15) which covers either the entire protuberance or which leaves the tips exposed for making focused electrical contact. Electrode arrays may be used singly or in combination with a second electrode array so as to form a sandwich around a target tissue. The sandwich electrode array (16, 17) may employ indexing cones for aligning the opposing electrode arrays and for limiting their vertical proximity. The conductors of the electrode array may be electronically connected or coupled to processing circuitry which amplifies and analyzes the signal received from the tissue and/or which generates signals which are sent to the target tissue and possibly coordinates the generated signals with signals which originate with the tissue.

    SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOVING IMPLANTED DEVICES
    8.
    发明公开
    SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOVING IMPLANTED DEVICES 审中-公开
    系统和方法拆卸植入设备

    公开(公告)号:EP1436038A4

    公开(公告)日:2006-06-07

    申请号:EP02797045

    申请日:2002-10-10

    摘要: The invention is a method of removing a miniature implantable electronic device (22) by means of an integral eyelet (30) or circumferential ring to facilitate removal of the implanted device without surgery. The string (32), if to radio-opaque, provides a method of locating the miniature implantable device without surgery and attachment of one end of the string to a radio-opaque marker provides a method of locating the end of the string to facilitate non-surgical removal of the miniature implantable device from living tissue. Alternatively, the miniature implantable device may be placed in a silk tube prior to being implanted in the living tissue, to facilitate removal from the tissue. Additionally, the eyelet increases the life of the miniature implantable device, if it is made of a metal, such as platinum or iridium, which has a low metal-to-electrolyte voltage drop by virtue of improved electrical coupling to a saline solution.