Electrical interface system

US11039775B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Flow Neuroscience, Inc. · SE

Inventors

• Patrick Wolber · San Francisco, US
• Tal Bar-Or · San Francisco, US
• Brett Wingeier · San Francisco, US
• Ian Shain · San Francisco, US
• Colin Davis · San Francisco, US
• Victoria Hammett · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 17, 2019
• Grant date: Jun 22, 2021
• Expiry date: Dec 30, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B2562/043
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A system for providing an electrical interface between a transducer and a transducer support device, the system comprising: a body mounted to the transducer support device, the body comprising an interface-to-transducer coupling region; a interface-to-electronics subsystem coupling region coupled to the body and contiguous with the interface-to-transducer coupling region, the system defining a fluid sealing region surrounding at least one of the interface-to-transducer and the interface-to-electronics subsystem coupling region; the system comprising an operation mode defining a sealed electrical pathway between the transducer and the transducer support device, wherein: the fluid sealing region is coupled to a complementary transducer sealing region, and the elastically deformable coupling region is biased against an electrical contact of the transducer with the fluid sealing region preventing fluid from reaching the electrical contact of the transducer.