Cochlear implant system including an implantable battery

    公开(公告)号:US10583289B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-10

    申请号:US15857589

    申请日:2017-12-28

    IPC分类号: A61N1/36 A61N1/378

    摘要: An exemplary cochlear implant system for a patient includes a cochlear implant, a sound processor, and an implantable battery configured to be implanted within the patient. The cochlear implant is configured to 1) determine that a signal is not being provided to the cochlear implant by a device external to the patient, 2) determine, in response to the determination that the signal is not being provided to the cochlear implant, that an amount of power remaining in the implantable battery is above a predetermined threshold amount, and 3) initiate, in response to the determination that the amount of power remaining in the implantable battery is above the predetermined threshold, an idle mode in which the cochlear implant remains powered on while waiting for one or more signals to be provided to the cochlear implant by the device external to the patient.

    Connectorized cochlear implant systems and methods

    公开(公告)号:US10130812B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-20

    申请号:US15408261

    申请日:2017-01-17

    摘要: An exemplary method includes cochlear implant circuitry, which is disposed within a cochlear implant module configured to be implanted within a patient, performing the following: 1) detecting that an implantable antenna is connected to a modular connector coupled to the cochlear implant module, 2) operating in accordance with a radio frequency (“RF”) inductive link communication protocol while the implantable antenna is connected to the modular connector, 3) detecting a disconnection of the implantable antenna from the modular connector and a connection of an implantable sound processor to the modular connector, and 4) dynamically switching from operating in accordance with the RF inductive link communication protocol to operating in accordance with a hard wired baseband link communication protocol in response to the connection of the implantable sound processor to the modular connector.

    SOUND PROCESSOR APPARATUS WITH DUAL-MODE EARHOOK INTERFACE ASSEMBLY
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    发明申请
    SOUND PROCESSOR APPARATUS WITH DUAL-MODE EARHOOK INTERFACE ASSEMBLY 有权
    具有双模式耳机接口装置的声音处理器装置

    公开(公告)号:US20150358710A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-12-10

    申请号:US14761003

    申请日:2013-01-15

    IPC分类号: H04R1/10 H04R25/00

    摘要: An exemplary sound processor apparatus includes 1) an earhook interface assembly that includes a plurality of contacts and that is configured to interchangeably connect to a microphone assembly and an EAS receiver assembly by way of the plurality of contacts, and 2) a control module communicatively coupled to the plurality of contacts and that is configured to selectively operate in an input mode or in an output mode. While operating in the input mode, the control module uses the plurality of contacts as input ports to receive one or more audio signals detected by the microphone assembly while the microphone assembly is connected to the earhook interface assembly. While operating in the output mode, the control module uses the plurality of contacts as output ports to output one or more EAS signals to the EAS receiver assembly while the EAS receiver assembly is connected to the earhook interface assembly.

    摘要翻译: 一种示例性的声音处理器装置包括:1)耳挂接口组件,其包括多个触点,并且被配置为通过所述多个触点可互换地连接到麦克风组件和EAS接收器组件,以及2)通信耦合的控制模块 并且被配置为选择性地以输入模式或输出模式操作。 当在输入模式下操作时,控制模块使用多个触点作为输入端口来接收由麦克风组件检测到的一个或多个音频信号,同时麦克风组件连接到耳挂接口组件。 当在输出模式下操作时,控制模块使用多个触点作为输出端口,以将EAS接收器组件连接到耳挂接口组件,将一个或多个EAS信号输出到EAS接收器组件。