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US 11,660,445 B2Granted
Electrode array packaging system
AssigneeCochlear Limited
InventorsGrahame Michael David Walling, Charles Roger Aaron Leigh
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Abstract
An apparatus, including a sterilely sealed package, and an electrode assembly sterilely sealed in the package, wherein the apparatus is configured to enable testing for an open circuit between two electrodes of the electrode assembly with the electrode assembly sterilely sealed in the package.
Claims32
An apparatus, comprising:
- a sterilely sealed package;
- and
- an electrode assembly sterilely sealed in the package, wherein the apparatus is configured to enable testing, with a conductive material, for an open circuit between two electrodes of the electrode assembly with the electrode assembly sterilely sealed in the package, wherein
- the apparatus is configured to disable the enablement of the testing for the open circuit while the electrode assembly is sterilely sealed in the package.
1 more element
A method, comprising:
- obtaining an electrode array within a sealed package sterilely isolated from an external environment thereof;
- testing, with a conductive material, for an open circuit between two electrodes of the electrode array while the electrode array is sterilely isolated from the external environment within the sealed package;
- and
- testing for a short circuit in the electrode array while the electrode array is sterilely isolated from the external environment within the sealed package.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a package;
- and
- an electrode array sterilely sealed in the package, wherein the apparatus is configured to provide electrical conductivity between two electrodes of the electrode array with a conductive material, wherein at least one of:
- the apparatus is configured to alternately provide and eliminate the electrical conductivity between the two electrodes, with the conductive material, while sterilely sealed in the package;
- or
- the apparatus is configured to vary an impedance between electrodes of the electrode array from more than 1000 ohms to less than 100 ohms, with the conductive material, while sterilely sealed in the package.
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A system, comprising:
- a package;
- and
- a cochlear implant comprising an electrode array and a receiver-stimulator sealed within the package, wherein the system is configured to enable open circuit testing with a conductive material and short circuit testing of the electrode array while the electrode array is sealed in the package.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.