Electrode for medical applications

US4603704A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Konrad Mund
• Helmut Freller · Westerburg, DE
• Friedrich Hoerauf · Nuremberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 11, 1984
• Grant date: Aug 5, 1986
• Expiry date: Jan 11, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B5/263
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In order to expand the availability of effective and usable electrodes for medical applications, an electrode is proposed which is comprised of an electrically conductive carrier material and of a porous layer in its active region which is composed of a carbide, nitride or carbonitride of one of the metals titanium, vanadium, zirconium, niobium, molybdenum, hafnium, tantalum or tungsten.