Flexible artificial nerve plates

US5897583A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Föderung der Wissenschaften e.V. · US

Inventors

• Jorg Meyer · Aachen, DE
• Thomas Stieglitz · Freiburg (Elbe), DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 18, 1997
• Grant date: Apr 27, 1999
• Expiry date: Mar 18, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61N1/0551
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A flexible and non-conductive, artificial, implantable nerve plate has an module of about 3000-1000 N/mm.sup.2 and a thickness of <50 .mu.m for placement and insertion between the fascicles of a nerve bundle. Multiple electrodes are arranged on the two sides of the nerve plate, which is connected via conducting lines inside the nerve plate to a cable integrated with the nerve plate; and the cable is connectable to a control and signal receiver unit.