Medical device involving muscle stimulation electrodes and an electromagnetic lead
OwnerLaurent Bernemaninventor
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Abstract
The invention relates to electrodes of a novel type in a heart stimulator functioning on energy produced by a piezoelectric effect. A variant of the electrodes is formed by the presence of a ferromagnetic material. The device constituting the heart stimulator has a small overall volume, weighs less than traditional stimulators, poses less risk of infection and clotting and much less risk of mechanical failure. Use of the device containing electrodes composed of materials capable of producing a piezoelectric effect and, if appropriate, also containing a ferromagnetic material, and also a directional probe comprising an electromagnet.
Claims18
1-10. (canceled)
An implantable muscular or nervous stimulation electrode generating and transmitting autonomously an electrical signal to a muscle or to a nervous tissue or a nerve in the human or animal body, wherein the electrode is constituted totally or partly by one or several piezoelectric materials, located on the whole surface of the electrode or close to the surface alternatively with one or more components present in the said electrode, generating by a piezoelectric effect produced by a physical stress exerted on the electrode a source of energy.
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