摘要:
A microelectronic coated CMS component, in particular for an active implantable medical device, and its method of manufacture. The process is applied to a wafer from which will be formed, after cutting, a plurality of CMS components of the CSP type, i.e., having appreciably the same dimensions as those of the chip. The process includes (a) obtaining a wafer (10) on which are formed the chips (12), each chip having a contact pad (16) on at least one side of the chip; (b) sealing on this wafer a cap (18) having openings (20) authorizing an access to the subjacent contact pads of the chips; (c) forming in the cap distinct trenches (22) according to the periphery of each chip; (d) establishing in the openings an electrical connection to the contact pads, these connections (26) emerging through the upper face of the cap; (e) flowing a coating resin (34) into the openings and the trenches; (f) polishing and metallizing the cap; and (g) cutting the wafer thus prepared into individual components.
摘要:
A method for manufacturing a plurality of hybrid electronic circuits for active implantable medical devices and circuits made by the process. The process includes the following stages: a) preparing a collective plane plate-substrate (10) carrying on a first surface a pattern of contact areas (16) for chips and, on a second surface (the back), a pattern of metallization areas for components, with a repetition of the same patterns for a corresponding plurality of circuits to be made from said substrate; b) gluing on the first surface of the plate of a plurality of chips (12, 14); c) cabling (wiring-bonding) the chips (12, 14) to their corresponding contact areas (16); d) pouring a coating resin over the first surface of the plate to achieve a uniform layer of coating resin (22), e) hardening the resin; f) cutting the plate to form the plurality of individual substrates, with each substrate having on its first surface coated chips, each one of these substrates corresponding to an implantable device individual circuit, and g) mounting SMC components (38, 40, 42) and/or connector elements (44) to the second surface of each individual substrate, so as to complete the electron circuits of the active implantable medical devices.
摘要:
A micro-electromechanical component (10) which includes a micro-system in a chip made by deposit, photolithography and micro-manufacturing of successive layers. The micro-system comprises a plurality of contact pads for electrical connection (16). The chip is provided with a localized external coating (20) to allow its transfer onto a substrate (28). This coating has on its surface a plurality of external metallizations (22) connected electrically through the coating material to the underlying contact pads of the chip. The coated component has approximately the same length and width as those of the chip before coating. The coating is formed only in a localized region on a reduced portion of the chip, essentially in the region of the pads and the metallizations, the sensing part of the micro-system not so coated and thus protected from mechanical constraints caused due to the application and hardening of the coating material.
摘要:
An implantable cardiac device that detects and protects against strong magnetic fields produced by MRI equipment is disclosed. The device has a magnetic field sensor for detecting the presence of a relatively weak static magnetic field (102, 110, 118, 122) of a level equivalent to that of a permanent magnet in the vicinity of the device. The device is switched from a standard operating mode (100) where the nominal functions of the device are active, to a specific protected MRI mode (114, 116) in the presence of a magnetic static field of a level corresponding to that emitted by MRI equipment. The device further temporarily switches the device from the standard operating mode (100) to an MRI stand-by state (108) when a magnetic field is detected by the magnetic field sensor such that a subsequent detection of a magnetic field switches the device from an MRI stand-by state to the specific protected MRI mode.
摘要:
A circuit for detection of the presence of a permanent magnet in the vicinity of an active implantable medical device, in particular a pacemaker, a defibrillator, a cardioverter and/or a multisite device. This circuit includes a coil (12), able to respond to the presence of the magnet (16) so as to present a decreased value of its inductance, a resonant LC circuit (10) including the aforementioned coil, a generator (18) for pulse excitation of the resonant circuit; a circuit to analyze the pulse response of the resonant circuit, and a discriminating circuit, able to evaluate the value of the coil inductance from the analyzed pulse response and, correlatively, to determine therefrom the presence or the absence of the magnet. The excitation generator is able to deliver to the resonant circuit a burst of N successive pulses, and the analyzing circuit determines N corresponding pulse responses, and the discriminating circuit determines the presence of the magnet if, among N analyzed pulse responses, a number M (M≦N) of them correspond to a decreased value of the inductance of the coil.
摘要翻译:一种用于检测在有源可植入医疗装置,特别是起搏器,除颤器,心律转复器和/或多位置装置附近的永磁体的存在的电路。 该电路包括能够响应于磁体(16)的存在以便呈现其电感值减小的线圈(12),包括上述线圈的谐振LC电路(10),用于 谐振电路的脉冲激励; 用于分析谐振电路的脉冲响应的电路,以及鉴别电路,其能够根据分析的脉冲响应来评估线圈电感的值,并且相应地确定磁体的存在或不存在。 励磁发生器能够向谐振电路输送N个连续脉冲的突发,并且分析电路确定N个对应的脉冲响应,并且鉴别电路确定磁体的存在,如果在N个分析的脉冲响应中存在M个( M <= N)对应于线圈的电感值的减小。
摘要:
An active implantable medical device, notably a cardiac pacemaker or fibrillator, which detects the instantaneous cardiac rhythm, spontaneous or stimulated, of the bearer of the device, and delivers stimulation pulses with a variable escape interval and which increases gradually this escape interval. The gradual increase of the escape interval is obtained by memorizing information corresponding to the evolution of the cardiac rhythm sensed by a conventional detection circuit over a first time period, wherein the escape interval to be adjusted is later in time to the memorized information, notably by determining a variable rate of increase of the escape interval, which variable rate is essentially determined as a function of the memorized information, and/or by operating an integration of the previously detected cardiac rhythm.
摘要:
A generator for an implantable cardiac prosthesis, having a safekeeping mode of operation during an exposure to a magnetic field. The generator is connected to a lead including a first conductor (18) connected to a distal electrode (14), and a second conductor (20) connected to a proximal electrode (16). The generator to which the lead is connected includes a switch that temporarily switches to the potential of the metal housing of the generator (i.e., the ground potential) a first terminal connection (26) coupled to the external conductor (20) of the lead, and connects to the electronic circuit of detection/stimulation a second terminal connection (24) coupled to the internal conductor (18) of the lead. The first conductor temporarily acts as a shield for the second conductor for the duration of an MRI examination ensuring protection against the deleterious effects of exposure of the lead to the magnetic field generated by the MRI apparatus, notably heating of the electrodes due to induced currents in the conductors.
摘要:
A process for the measurement of the complex impedance of a lead for an active implantable medical device, in particular a pacemaker, defibrillator and or cardiovertor. This process includes the steps of producing a stimulation pulse by the discharge on the lead (10) of a tank-capacitor (22) of the device (20), charged beforehand to a given voltage level; measuring the voltage variation (V(t)) at the terminals of the tank-capacitor during the discharge; and determining the lead impedance (Zs) from the voltage thus measured. The measurement stage includes sampling at least three successive values of the voltage at the terminals of the tank capacitor, and the determining stage includes the separate determination of the resistive (Rs) and/or capacitive (CH) components of the complex impedance of the lead from the aforesaid at least three sampled values of voltage thus obtained.
摘要:
An active implantable medical device with a sophisticated management of the refractory periods. Such devices typically include a detection circuit and a stimulation circuit and a circuit which applies a refractory period to the detection circuit, including an absolute refractory period (ARP), which can be fixed or pre-programmed, and a relative refractory period (RRP), which is variable. The relative refractory period includes a succession of elementary periods (X) of a fixed or programmable duration, which elementary period is further subdivided into sub-periods (Y) such that an elementary period X is retriggered or restarted at the end of a sub-period Y if a residual potential of a level higher than a given threshold is detected at output of the detection circuit during that sub-period. In the absence of a detected residual potential being detected during the successive sub-periods comprising the elementary period, then the refractory period ends.
摘要:
An active medical device including protected registers for containing digital adjustment parameter values used for the functioning of functional modules of the device. This device includes at least one module (12) for achieving a predetermined device function, this module including a circuit specific for performing the function and which has an adjustable parameter value in the form of a digital word of N bits. Each such module includes a plurality of volatile storage registers having N bits storing the aforementioned digital words, and circuits for comparing (32, 36), the respective contents of the registers and producing an anomaly signal (IT1, IT2 . . . ITi . . . ITk) in the event of a discordance between the contents of the plurality of registers for a given module. The anomaly signal may be an interrupt signal applied to a microcontroller (10). The module also includes a majority circuit (30) receiving at its input the contents of the registers and delivering at its output to the specific circuit (24) the resulting value as the adjustment parameter value to be used in performing the function. It also is contemplated to restore the contents of corrupted registers in the event of a discordance detected by the comparison.