GUIDEWIRE AND METHOD THEREFOR
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240173523A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-30

    申请号:US18432493

    申请日:2024-02-05

    CPC classification number: A61M25/09 A61M2025/09108 A61M2025/09133

    Abstract: In various examples, a method of making a guidewire is described. The method includes placing a polymer jacket over a core wire. The core wire includes a first portion having a first profile and a second portion having a second profile. The first profile is smaller than the second profile. Heat is applied to the polymer jacket and the core wire to reflow the polymer jacket and fuse the polymer jacket to the core wire, wherein the polymer jacket forms a layer of substantially uniform thickness along a length of the core wire. In some examples, a guidewire made using the method is also described.

    Inductive Charging Coil Configuration For An Implantable Medical Device

    公开(公告)号:US20230032945A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-02

    申请号:US17878330

    申请日:2022-08-01

    Abstract: An active implantable medical device (AIMD) is described. The AIMD has a rechargeable electrical energy power source connected to a PCB assembly for powering the medical device. The AIMD can sense biological signals from a patient, or it can have at least two electrodes that provide stimulation therapy to the patient. An inductive charging coil housed inside an elongate device enclosure is connected to the power source. The inductive charging coil has winds of an electrically conductive wire or tape that wrap around the PCB. The winds of the inductive charging coil have an upper wind portion residing above the PCB and a lower wind portion below the PCB. Opposed curved ends of the inductive charging coil winds are continuous with the upper and lower wind portions. This structure provides the inductive charging coil with a length aligned along a longitudinal axis of the PCB. In that manner, the inductive charging coil occupies a space otherwise not used in an elongate cylindrical enclosure for an AIMD.

    Electrolytic capacitor having a tantalum anode

    公开(公告)号:US11450486B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-20

    申请号:US17221444

    申请日:2021-04-02

    Abstract: A wet tantalum electrolytic capacitor containing a cathode, fluidic working electrolyte, and anode formed from an anodically oxidized sintered porous tantalum pellet is provided. The pellet is formed from a pressed tantalum powder. The tantalum powder is formed by reacting a tantalum oxide compound, for example, tantalum pentoxide, with a reducing agent that contains a metal having an oxidation state of 2 or more, for example, magnesium. The resulting tantalum powder is nodular or angular and has a specific charge that ranges from about 11,000 μF*V/g to about 14,000 μF*V/g. Using this powder, wet tantalum electrolytic capacitors have breakdown voltages that ranges from about 250 volts to about 400 volts. This makes the electrolytic capacitors ideal for use in an implantable medical device.

    Cable-Less Lead Adapter For Implantable Neurostimulator System

    公开(公告)号:US20220288400A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-15

    申请号:US17681891

    申请日:2022-02-28

    Abstract: A lead adapter for a patient treatment system comprises a housing having a plurality of inlets, each inlet being segregated from an immediately adjacent inlet by a housing intermediate wall. A plurality of electrical contact assemblies residing in the housing are electrically connected to a respective one of a plurality of electrical contact posts. Each contact post has an exposed terminal portion residing in one of the plurality of inlets. A header is movably secured to the housing to selectively open and close the housing. With the header in an open position, an implantable lead is movable into a longitudinally extending opening in the header. The header is then manipulatable into a closed position to move an electrical contact of the lead into contact with a respective one of the electrical contact assemblies electrically connected to a respective one of the electrical contact posts. That way, the electrical contacts of the implantable lead are in electrical continuity with an exposed terminal portion of a respective one of the electrical contact posts.

    Low equivalent series resistance RF filter circuit board for an active implantable medical device

    公开(公告)号:US11406817B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-09

    申请号:US16880392

    申请日:2020-05-21

    Abstract: A filtered feedthrough assembly includes a ferrule configured to be installed in an AIMD housing. An insulator is disposed within a ferrule opening. A conductive pathway is disposed within a passageway through the insulator. A filter capacitor is disposed on a device side having active and ground electrode plates disposed within a capacitor dielectric k greater than 0 and less than 1,000. A capacitor active metallization is electrically connected to the active electrode plates. A ground capacitor metallization is electrically connected to the ground electrode plates. The filter capacitor is the first filter capacitor electrically connected to the conductive pathway coming from a body fluid side into the device side. An active electrical connection electrically connects the conductive pathway to the capacitor active metallization. A ground electrical connection electrically connects the ground capacitor metallization to the ferrule. The filter capacitor is a flat-through or an X2Y attenuator filter capacitor.

    Removable Terminal Pin Connector For An Active Electronics Circuit Board For Use In An Implantable Medical Device

    公开(公告)号:US20220115806A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-14

    申请号:US17561048

    申请日:2021-12-23

    Abstract: A hermetic feedthrough terminal pin connector for an active implantable medical device (AIMD) includes an electrical insulator hermetically sealed to an opening of an electrically conductive ferrule. A feedthrough terminal pin is hermetically sealed to and disposed through the insulator, the feedthrough terminal pin extending outwardly beyond the insulator on the inside of the casing of the AIMD. A circuit board is disposed on the inside of the casing of the AIMD. A terminal pin connector includes: an electrically conductive connector housing disposed on the circuit board, wherein the connector housing is electrically connected to at least one electrical circuit disposed on the circuit board; and at least one electrically conductive prong supported by the connector housing, the at least one prong contacting and compressed against the feedthrough terminal pin, the at least one prong making a removable electrical connection.

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