摘要:
A permanently implantable, fixable positioning system (1) for stationary attachment to a human body, without play, preferably to the human skull. It has ball-and-socket joint (3), linear axle (4) fixed stationary to it, and a carriage (5) which is guided on the linear axle for accommodating an implantable actuator or sensor device (6). The combination of the axial degree of freedom of the linear axle (4) with three degrees of rotational freedom of the ball-and-socket joint (3) allows a surgeon four-axis, in-situ positioning of the implantable means especially in the middle ear and mastoid cavities. By using the positioning system, precise positioning of a free active end (16) of the implantable device (6) relative to sensitive anatomical structures of the human body is enabled while avoiding risky relative movements between the implantable device and the body of the patient. The positioning system is thus used more or less as a "tremor-free artificial hand" of the surgeon. According to one preferred embodiment, the implantable device is an implantable piezoelectric hearing aid transducer of a partially or completely implantable hearing aid.
摘要:
A protective device for a repeatedly rechargeable electrochemical battery (10) with a battery housing (12), the protective device having at least one switching element (86) which can be activated by a detector element (62) and which is designed or adjusted to prevent recharging and/or discharging of the battery (10) in an impermissible operating state thereof. The protective device has a hermetically sealed protective housing (54) which holds the battery housing (12). An impermissible operating state of the battery (10) causes a change in shape (deflection) to be impressed on the detector element (62). Preferably, the at least one switching element (86) is made as a make contact which electrically short circuits a recharging circuit supplied by a charging device when a predetermined expansion in the volume of the battery housing (12) and/or gas escape therefrom occurs. The protective device is part of an implantable device, such as a hearing aid.
摘要:
Implantable microphone for implantable hearing aids, which is used for excitation of hearing, such as cochlear implants or hearing aids with mechanical stimulation of the middle or inner ear, with a microphone capsule which is accommodated in a hermetically sealed housing, and with an electrical lead-in wire connector for connecting an implant line to the microphone module. The housing has at least two legs which are oriented at an angle relative to one another, one leg holding the microphone capsule and being provided with a sound inlet membrane, and the other leg containing the electrical lead-in wire connector. As a result of the two-legged geometry of the microphone housing, the microphone can be implanted after a mastoidectomy in the mastoid cavity such that the leg which has the sound inlet membrane lies in a hole in the posterior wall of the auditory canal so that, by mechanical contact of the membrane with the closed skin of the auditory canal wall, an acoustic signal incident in the external auditory canal is acoustically received, while the leg of the microphone housing containing the electrical lead-in wire connector is in the area of the mastoid tip. Completely implantable hearing aids for electrical excitation of hearing using the implantable microphone, can have, on the implant side, a battery arrangement for power supply which can be recharged transcutaneously via an external charging device. The audiological implant functions can, likewise, be transcutaneously controlled via a remote control.
摘要:
A fixation element for an implantable microphone is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment the fixation element comprises an essentially cylindrical portion adapted to be inserted into a bore which crosses a wall of the auditory canal of a user, said cylindrical portion, at least in an implanted state of the fixation element, surrounding an outer circumferential portion of a housing part of the microphone, which housing part is provided with a sound receiving member. The cylindrical portion includes at least one elastic region of increased diameter, said elastic region contacting, in the implanted state of the fixation element, a wall of said bore and providing, by elastic restoring forces, for a friction which is sufficiently high to fix said cylindrical portion in at least one of the two axial directions of said bore.
摘要:
An at least partially implantable hearing system comprising at least one electromechanical output transducer; a micromanipulator for positioning the transducer and for fixing the transducer in a position set by the micromanipulator, the micromanipulator being adapted to be fixedly attached by fixing means to a skull cap; and a releasable coupling unit disposed between the transducer and the micromanipulator, said coupling unit, in an assembled state, fixing the transducer with respect to the micromanipulator, and, in a released state, permitting removal of the transducer from the micromanipulator.
摘要:
The unsaturated 17.alpha.-cyanomethyl-17.beta.-hydroxy steroids of the formula I, ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 =Me, Eth; R.sub.2 =H, Me; R.sub.3 =H, OH, an acetoxy or alkoxy group; R.sub.4 =H, R.sub.5 =OH, an acetoxy, alkoxy group of R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 together represent a keto- or ketal group and double bonds are contained in the basic structure of the steroid, particularly between the 15 and 16 position in the steroid ring, from unsaturated 17-ketosteroids of the general formula II as described herein with the aforementioned meanings of R.sub.1 to R.sub.5 by reacting the unsaturated 17-ketosteroids with LiCH.sub.2 CN and subsequently hydrolyzing.The compounds of formula I are pharmacologically interesting steroid compounds or also intermediate products for the synthesis of highly-effective steroid products which can be used in human and veterinary medicine for the treatment of endocrine disorders and for reproductive control based on their specific hormonal/anti-hormonal actions.The compounds are suitable for the treatment of endometriosis and also in combination with preparations with ethinylestradiol for fertility control.
摘要:
Glass compositions useful for passivating silicon semiconductor elements or bodies and to semiconductor elements or bodies coated by such glass compositions. The glass compositions are applied onto the surface of the semiconductor in the form of a finely ground powder and thereafter fused on at least a portion of the semiconductor element. The compositions comprise: (A) glass and (B) powdered cordierite in an amount effective to provide a coefficient of thermal expansion of up to 40 .times. 10.sup.-7 /.degree. C for said composition within the temperature range of 20.degree.-300.degree. C. The compositions are compatible with the thermal expansion of the silicon semiconductor and capable of adhering to the silicon in layers greater than 10 .mu.m without the formation of cracks.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a novel process for the production of sequences of interference layers composed of layers i of prescribed thicknesses d(i) and refractive indices n(i). In this process a stack of at least two layers i of glasses having refractive indices n(i) and thicknesses d0(i), which are each larger than the predetermined thicknesses d(i) by the same multiplying factor, is provided. The stack is heated to a temperature above the transformation temperature of the glasses and during or after heating, the stack is drawn in such a manner that the individual layers obtain the prescribed thicknesses d(i). After this the drawn stack is cooled.
摘要:
The polymerization of tetrafluoroethylene in aqueous suspension can be carried out with high conversion if the medium is thoroughly mixed using an axially conveying stirrer element in such a manner that a cone forms at least as far as the vicinity of the stirrer element. In the region of this stirrer element there are expediently arranged baffles which extend only over a part of the filling height of the reactor.