PERIPHERAL NERVE AND SPINAL CORD DIFFERENTIAL TARGET MULTIPLEXED STIMULATION

    公开(公告)号:US20240131343A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-25

    申请号:US18546765

    申请日:2022-02-24

    申请人: Medtronic, Inc.

    IPC分类号: A61N1/36

    摘要: Devices, systems, or methods include generating, by stimulation generation circuitry, a first train of electrical stimulation pulses at a first frequency to a first target tissue; and generating, by the stimulation generation circuitry, a second train of electrical stimulation pulses at a second frequency to a second target tissue different from the first target tissue, wherein at least some electrical stimulation pulses of the first train of electrical stimulation pulses are interleaved with at least some electrical stimulation pulses of the second tram of electrical stimulation pulses. At least the first target tissue is associated with a spinal cord of a patient, and the second target tissue is associated with at least one of a peripheral nerve or a nerve root of the patient.

    Intraesophageal electrostimulator
    86.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11957896B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-16

    申请号:US18265446

    申请日:2021-12-09

    发明人: Norihiko Shiiya

    摘要: Provided is an intraesophageal electrostimulator configured so that other medical tools can also be easily inserted into an esophagus and misalignment in the esophagus can be reduced. An intraesophageal electrostimulator 100 includes a stimulator body 101, stimulating electrodes 111, 112, and power feed lines 113, 114. The stimulator body 101 is formed, in order to insert the stimulator body 101 into an esophagus S, in an elongated flat plate shape with flexibility in a longitudinal direction. The stimulator body 101 includes a first flat plate member 102, a second flat plate member 103, and an exterior body 104. On one plate surface of the first flat plate member 102, each of the stimulating electrodes 111, 112 is provided so as to protrude from the plate surface. The second flat plate member 103 overlaps with the other plate surface of the first flat plate member 102 such that the second flat plate member 103 and the first flat plate member 102 sandwich the power feed lines 113, 114. The exterior body 104 covers the first flat plate member 102 and the second flat plate member 103 overlapping with each other.

    Spinal Cord Stimulation Occurring Using Monophasic Pulses of Alternating Polarities and Passive Charge Recovery

    公开(公告)号:US20240082582A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-14

    申请号:US18497665

    申请日:2023-10-30

    IPC分类号: A61N1/36 A61N1/02

    摘要: New waveforms for use in an implantable pulse generator or external trial stimulator are disclosed which mimic actively-driven biphasic pulses, and which are particularly useful for issuing low frequencies pulses. The waveforms comprise at each electrode interleaved first and second pulses. Each first pulse comprises a first monophasic pulse and a first passive charge recovery period. Each second pulse comprises a second monophasic pulse with a polarity opposite the first monophasic pulse and a second passive charge recovery period. Preferably, the amplitudes and pulse widths of the first and second monophasic pulses are equal, or at least charge balanced at each electrode. The first and second monophasic pulses mimic the functionality of a symmetric biphasic pulse, with the first monophasic pulse mimicking the functionality of the biphasic pulse's first phase, and the with the second monophasic pulse mimicking the functionality of the biphasic pulse's second phase.

    Methods and Electrical Stimulators for Interferential Stimulation using Axial Bias Stimulation Fields

    公开(公告)号:US20240066305A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-29

    申请号:US17900559

    申请日:2022-08-31

    IPC分类号: A61N1/36 A61N1/05

    摘要: An example method for electrical stimulation of a subject includes creating multiple circuits using implantable electrodes positioned in the subject, transmitting a signal of a first frequency through a first circuit of the multiple circuits and the first circuit generates a first electrical field, and transmitting a signal of a second frequency through a second circuit of the multiple circuits and the second circuit generates a second electrical field. The implantable electrodes are positioned in a substantially linear configuration along a same axis such that the first electrical field and the second electrical field are in an axial bias configuration, and the first electrical field and the second electrical field interfere with each other at an area of overlap to produce a beat signal.