Implantable reservoir body
AssigneeDritte Patentportfolio Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
InventorHans-Juergen Schrag
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Abstract
An implantable reservoir body is provided which, as and when required, makes available a working medium that serves at least to inflate an implantable unit. An elastic hollow body is provided whose wall encloses a reservoir volume, and an induction coil arrangement is provided inside the reservoir volume and/or an induction coil arrangement is connected to the wall of the hollow body. The induction coil arrangement is connected to a pump/electronics unit provided inside or outside the hollow body, and a fluid channel is provided which leads out of the hollow body and which is connected to the pump unit and/or directly to the implanted unit that is to be inflated.
Claims14
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An implantable reservoir body for demand-oriented supply of a working medium serving at least for inflating at least one implantable unit (X) when the implantable reservoir body is connected to the implantable unit (X), the implantable reservoir body comprising:
- an elastic hollow body (2) having a wall which encloses a reservoir volume (3),
- an induction coil arrangement (4) within the reservoir volume (3) and/or connected to the hollow body wall,
- the induction coil arrangement (4) being connected to a pump/electronics unit (5, 6) provided inside or outside the hollow body, and
- a fluid channel (7, 7′) leading out of the hollow body (2) and connected to the pump unit (5) and/or directly to the implanted unit (X) to be inflated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.