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Heart pacemaker with improved detection of electrical signals

US5683425A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 12, 1995
Grant dateNov 4, 1997
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Expiry dateDec 12, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S128/901
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A heart pacemaker with improved detection of electrical signals which are used for triggering pacemaker functions, has a detection circuit for registering intracardial heart signals in which certain noise signals having a generally chromatic spectrum are superimposed on the signals to be detected, the detection circuit undertaking an adaptive, non-linear noise filter of those intracardial heart signals for converting the spectrum of the noise signals into an essentially white spectrum. The signals filtered by the non-linear noise filtering are supplied to a matched filter wherein correlation of these signals with a sought signal pattern takes place.

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