Method for automatically adjusting the sensitivity of cardiac sense amplifiers
US6112119A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 27, 1997 |
| Grant date | Aug 29, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 27, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA61N1/3704
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Two mechanisms work together to adjust two variables independently so that the gain of an input amplifier used to find physiologic signals in an implantable medical device can be automatically adjusted to enhance the signal to noise ratio of the electrical input to said amplifier. The first determines whether there has been too long a time between senses found in the body's electrical input to the amplifier and if true, and no other conditions override that consideration, it adjusts the value of a long term average parameter which is used as a referent parameter to adjust the actual parameter that is used as the referent for making either a threshold level adjustment or gain change, depending on the structure of the particular design's circuitry and/or software. One set of adjustments to the gain referent parameter depends on the relative size of the long term average parameter and the gain referent parameter. The mechanisms preferably employ counting registers, the one which adjusts the gain referent having a process to weight input signals such that those of different types get different weights, and the other mechanism only accepting certain of the input signals. Input signals t…
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