Implantable electromedical device

US9974967B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Norbert Pscherer · Ergolding, DE
• Hermann Kalb · Schnaittach, DE
• Erich Haas · Leinburg, DE
• Sahika Seidler · Nuremberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 7, 2016
• Grant date: May 22, 2018
• Expiry date: Mar 7, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61N1/3756
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An implantable electromedical device, including a casing part accommodating an electronic or electric functional unit, an electrode disposed on the outside of the casing part or a line connection, and a feedthrough, which surrounds an orifice of the casing part and accommodates at least one metallic conductor element connecting the electrode or the line connection to the functional unit, and which has a metallic circumferential flange, wherein the feedthrough comprises a ceramic base body, around which the circumferential flange and in which the conductor element are directly shrunk in a positively and non-positively connecting manner.