公开(公告)号：US20060247711A1

公开(公告)日：2006-11-02

申请号：US11116691

申请日：2005-04-28

申请人： William Verhoef ,  Piotr Przybyszewski ,  Christopher Fuller ,  Gregory Haubrich ,  Garry Dublin

发明人： William Verhoef ,  Piotr Przybyszewski ,  Christopher Fuller ,  Gregory Haubrich ,  Garry Dublin

IPC分类号： A61N1/375

CPC分类号： A61N1/37229 ,  H01Q1/22 ,  H01Q1/36 ,  H01Q1/362 ,  H01Q1/40 ,  H01Q7/00 ,  H01Q7/08

摘要： An implantable medical device (“IMD”) configured in accordance with an example embodiment of the invention generally includes a housing, a connector header block coupled to the housing, and a telemetry antenna located within the header block. The header block is formed from a dielectric material, which encapsulates the antenna. The antenna is configured to support far field telemetry with an external device such as a programmer. In one example embodiment, the antenna is formed from a thin round wire, has a feed point on the top perimeter sidewall of the housing, and has a floating endpoint in the header block. The antenna is contoured to form a simple curve in a plane that is approximately parallel with the major sides of the housing.

摘要翻译： 根据本发明的示例性实施例配置的可植入医疗装置（“IMD”）通常包括外壳，连接到外壳的连接器插头块和位于插头块内的遥测天线。 标题块由封装天线的电介质材料形成。 天线被配置为支持远程遥测与诸如编程器的外部设备。 在一个示例性实施例中，天线由薄的圆形线形成，在壳体的顶部周边侧壁上具有馈电点，并且在插头块中具有浮动端点。 该天线的轮廓是在与壳体的主要大致平行的平面中形成简单的曲线。

公开(公告)号：US20060247712A1

公开(公告)日：2006-11-02

申请号：US11116983

申请日：2005-04-28

申请人： Christopher Fuller ,  William Verhoef ,  Gregory Haubrich ,  Javaid Masoud ,  George Rosar ,  Garry Dublin ,  Piotr Przybyszewski

发明人： Christopher Fuller ,  William Verhoef ,  Gregory Haubrich ,  Javaid Masoud ,  George Rosar ,  Garry Dublin ,  Piotr Przybyszewski

IPC分类号： A61N1/362

CPC分类号： A61N1/37229

摘要： An implantable medical device (“IMD”) configured in accordance with an example embodiment of the invention generally includes a housing, a connector header block coupled to the housing, a dielectric sheath located around at least a portion of the housing and/or around at least a portion of the header block, and a telemetry antenna located within the dielectric sheath. The antenna is configured to support far field telemetry with an external device such as a programmer. In one example embodiment, the antenna is configured as a balanced antenna having two separate antenna elements driven 180 degrees out of phase. Each of the antenna elements has a feed point on a perimeter edge of the IMD housing and a floating endpoint. A number of alternate embodiments are also provided.

摘要翻译： 根据本发明的示例性实施例配置的可植入医疗装置（“IMD”）通常包括壳体，连接到壳体的连接器插头块，位于壳体的至少一部分周围和/ 头部块的至少一部分，以及位于电介质护套内的遥测天线。 天线被配置为支持远程遥测与诸如编程器的外部设备。 在一个示例实施例中，天线被配置为具有被驱动180度异相的两个单独的天线元件的平衡天线。 每个天线元件具有在IMD外壳的周边边缘上的馈电点和浮动端点。 还提供了许多替代实施例。

公开(公告)号：US20060241724A1

公开(公告)日：2006-10-26

申请号：US11109995

申请日：2005-04-20

申请人： Garry Dublin ,  Gregory Haubrich ,  Chris Fuller ,  Piotr Przybyszewski ,  Len Twetan ,  William Verhoef

发明人： Garry Dublin ,  Gregory Haubrich ,  Chris Fuller ,  Piotr Przybyszewski ,  Len Twetan ,  William Verhoef

IPC分类号： A61N1/36

CPC分类号： A61N1/37223 ,  A61N1/37229

摘要： An implantable device, such as an implantable medical device (IMD) includes at least two radio frequency (RF) antennas and may additionally include an RF communication circuit. The RF antennas are spatially diverse, are disposed adjacent a housing, and are each configured to receive RF signals transmitted to the IMD from a remote RF signal source. The RF communication circuit, if included, is disposed within the housing and is configured to selectively receive the RF signals received by one or more of the spatially diverse RF antennas.

摘要翻译： 诸如可植入医疗装置（IMD）的可植入装置包括至少两个射频（RF）天线，并且还可以包括RF通信电路。 RF天线在空间上是不同的，被设置在与壳体相邻的位置，并且每个被配置为从远程RF信号源接收发射到IMD的RF信号。 如果包括RF通信电路，RF通信电路被布置在壳体内并且被配置为选择性地接收由一个或多个空间多样的RF天线接收的RF信号。

公开(公告)号：US20060224206A1

公开(公告)日：2006-10-05

申请号：US11096834

申请日：2005-03-31

申请人： Garry Dublin ,  Eduardo Villaseca ,  William Verhoef ,  Rodney Wallace

发明人： Garry Dublin ,  Eduardo Villaseca ,  William Verhoef ,  Rodney Wallace

IPC分类号： A61N1/36

CPC分类号： A61N1/37229 ,  A61N1/3752

摘要： An implantable medical device (“IMD”) configured in accordance with an example embodiment of the invention generally includes a housing, a connector header block coupled to the housing, and an optional telemetry antenna coupled to the header block. The optional antenna assembly is suitably configured to support the intended IMD application (e.g., the desired telemetry range, the intended IMD implant location, or other practical considerations). The optional antenna assembly may be utilized by itself or in cooperation with a permanent telemetry antenna of the IMD. In one practical embodiment, the optional antenna assembly has a connection end that is compliant with known pacemaker electrode lead standards, which allows the IMD to leverage existing connection methodologies.

摘要翻译： 根据本发明的示例性实施例配置的可植入医疗设备（“IMD”）通常包括壳体，连接到壳体的连接器插头块以及耦合到插头块的可选遥测天线。 可选的天线组件被适当地配置为支持预期的IMD应用（例如，期望的遥测范围，预期的IMD植入位置或其他实际考虑）。 可选的天线组件可以自己或与IMD的永久遥测天线协同使用。 在一个实际的实施例中，可选天线组件具有符合已知的起搏器电极引线标准的连接端，其允许IMD利用现有的连接方法。

公开(公告)号：US20060224207A1

公开(公告)日：2006-10-05

申请号：US11248352

申请日：2005-10-12

申请人： Garry Dublin ,  William Verhoef ,  Rodney Wallace

发明人： Garry Dublin ,  William Verhoef ,  Rodney Wallace

IPC分类号： A61N1/36

CPC分类号： A61N1/37229 ,  A61N1/3752

摘要： An implantable medical device (“IMD”) configured in accordance with an example embodiment of the invention generally includes a housing, a connector header block coupled to the housing, and an optional telemetry antenna coupled to the header block. The optional antenna assembly is suitably configured to support the intended IMD application (e.g., the desired telemetry range, the intended IMD implant location, or other practical considerations). The optional antenna assembly may be utilized by itself or in cooperation with a permanent telemetry antenna of the IMD. In one practical embodiment, the optional antenna assembly has a connection end that is compliant with known pacemaker electrode lead standards, which allows the IMD to leverage existing connection methodologies.

公开(公告)号：US20070123955A1

公开(公告)日：2007-05-31

申请号：US11290387

申请日：2005-11-30

申请人： William Verhoef ,  Gregory Haubrich ,  Javaid Masoud ,  Len Twetan

发明人： William Verhoef ,  Gregory Haubrich ,  Javaid Masoud ,  Len Twetan

IPC分类号： A61N1/00

CPC分类号： A61N1/37282 ,  A61B5/0031 ,  A61B2560/0271 ,  G06F19/00 ,  G06F19/3418 ,  Y10S128/903 ,  Y10S128/904

摘要： A communications device facilitates communication between a medical device and a wireless communications network and comprises a telemetry circuit configured to wirelessly communicate with one or more medical devices, and a computer network communication interface configured to wirelessly communicate directly with a wireless computer network. The communications device also comprises a peripheral device communication interface configured to communicate with a wireless peripheral device and a processor being in operable communication with, and configured to control operations of, the telemetry circuit, the network communication interface, and the peripheral device communication interface.

摘要翻译： 通信设备促进医疗设备和无线通信网络之间的通信，并且包括被配置为与一个或多个医疗设备无线通信的遥测电路以及被配置为与无线计算机网络直接无线通信的计算机网络通信接口。 通信设备还包括配置成与无线外围设备通信的外围设备通信接口和与遥测电路，网络通信接口和外围设备通信接口可操作地通信并且被配置为控制操作的处理器。

公开(公告)号：US20060074462A1

公开(公告)日：2006-04-06

申请号：US10957463

申请日：2004-10-01

申请人： William Verhoef

发明人： William Verhoef

IPC分类号： A61N1/08

CPC分类号： G06F19/3418 ,  G06F19/00 ,  G16H10/60 ,  G16H40/63

摘要： A remote patient monitoring system is provided including an implantable medical device (IMD) capable of collecting and storing medical data and multiple, networked external monitoring devices adapted for wireless communication with the IMD. The networked monitoring devices may be configured such that one device is the master and remaining devices are repeater units wherein the master monitoring device coordinates communication between the networked devices and the IMD based on maximizing the received transmission signal strength between the IMD and the monitoring device network. The system may further include a data communications network coupled to at least one of the multiple external monitoring devices to allow data to be transferred to a database or other communication medium. Likewise, data may be received by the monitoring device network from a database or other communication medium to be transferred to the IMD.

摘要翻译： 提供远程患者监视系统，包括能够收集和存储医疗数据的可植入医疗设备（IMD）以及适于与IMD进行无线通信的多个联网的外部监控设备。 网络监视设备可以被配置为使得一个设备是主设备，而其余设备是中继器单元，其中主监控设备基于IMD与监控设备网络之间接收到的传输信号强度最大化来协调网络设备与IMD之间的通信 。 该系统还可以包括耦合到多个外部监视设备中的至少一个的数据通信网络，以允许将数据传送到数据库或其他通信介质。 类似地，监视设备网络可以从数据库或其他通信介质接收数据以传送到IMD。