Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Magnet arrangement for bone conduction hearing implant
- Patent Title (中): 用于骨传导听力植入物的磁铁排列
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Application No.: US15079255Application Date: 2016-03-24
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Publication No.: US09549267B2Publication Date: 2017-01-17
- Inventor: Markus Nagl , Thomas Lechleitner
- Applicant: MED-EL Elektromedizinische Geraete GmbH
- Applicant Address: AT Innsbruck
- Assignee: MED-EL Elektromedizinische Geraete GmbH
- Current Assignee: MED-EL Elektromedizinische Geraete GmbH
- Current Assignee Address: AT Innsbruck
- Agency: Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP
- Main IPC: H04R25/00
- IPC: H04R25/00 ; A61N1/375 ; A61N1/08 ; A61N1/36 ; A61N1/37

Abstract:
An implantable magnetic transducer arrangement is described for a hearing implant in a recipient patient. An implant housing hermetically encapsulates an interior housing volume and is fixedly attached to skull bone beneath the skin of the patient. A magnetic transducer is located within the housing volume and includes multiple pie-shaped permanent magnets wherein adjacent magnets have different direction magnetic polarities, and one or more suspension elements that resiliently couple adjacent magnets to allow their relative movement. The magnetic transducer is operatively coupled to an external magnetic drive component above the skin of the patient to form an oscillating system that develops a mechanical stimulation signal to the implant housing for delivery by bone conduction of the skull bone as an audio signal to the cochlea of the patient.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160205484A1 Magnet Arrangement for Bone Conduction Hearing Implant Public/Granted day:2016-07-14
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