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US 2015/0312686 A1Published application
Signal conducting coupling
AssigneeCochlear Limited
InventorsJohan GUSTAFSSON, Marcus ANDERSSON
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Abstract
A device including a prosthesis including an external component configured to output a signal in response to an external stimulus and a skin penetrating component configured to communicatively transfer the signal at least partially beneath skin of the recipient, wherein the device is configured such that the skin penetrating component can move in a plurality of degrees of freedom relative to the external component while retained to the external component.
Claims32
A device, comprising:
- a prosthesis including an external component configured to output a signal in response to an external stimulus and conductor component coupled to the external component configured to communicatively transfer the signal to at least one of a location at or below skin of the recipient, wherein the conductor component is coupled to the external component via an effectively torque-free coupling.
A device, comprising:
- a prosthesis including an external component configured to output a signal in response to an external stimulus and a skin contacting component configured to communicatively transfer the signal at least one of to skin of the recipient or beneath skin of the recipient, wherein the device is configured such that the skin contacting component can move in a plurality of degrees of freedom relative to the external component while retained to the external component.
A device, comprising:
- a prosthesis including an external component configured to output a signal in response to an external stimulus and conductor component coupled to the external component configured to communicatively transfer the signal at least one of to a location at or below skin of the recipient, wherein the conductor component is coupled to the external component via a sliding coupling.
A device, comprising:
- a prosthesis including an external component including a first side configured to output a signal in response to an external stimulus and a conductor component coupled to the external component configured to communicatively transfer the signal at least one of to a location at or below skin of the recipient, wherein the device is configured such that the conductor component can be coupled to the external component at least one of in a plurality of locations on the first side or in a plurality of orientations at a given location on the first side.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.