Implantable medical device housing having integrated features
AssigneeHeraeus Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsJeremy Glynn, Steven Harein
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Abstract
One aspect is a housing for an implantable medical device, including first housing portion of metal, an intermediate portion of metal and having first and second sides opposite one another and having integrated features, and a second housing portion of metal. The first housing portion is sealed to the first side of the intermediate portion and the second housing portion is sealed to the second side of the intermediate portion thereby forming an housing internal space within first and second housing portions and containing the intermediate portion and its features, such that the features are hermetically sealed within the housing relative to an external space that is outside the housing.
Claims15
A housing for an implantable medical device comprising:
- a first housing portion comprising metal;
- an intermediate portion comprising metal and having first and second sides opposite one another and having integrated features;
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- a second housing portion comprising metal;
- wherein the first housing portion is sealed to the first side of the intermediate portion and the second housing portion is sealed to the second side of the intermediate portion thereby forming an housing internal space within first and second housing portions and containing the intermediate portion and its features, such that the features are hermetically sealed within the housing relative to an external space that is outside the housing.
A housing for an implantable medical device comprising:
- a first housing portion comprising metal and having features integrated in the first housing portion;
- a second housing portion comprising metal;
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- an intermediate portion between the first and second housing portions, the intermediate portion defining a first chamber between the first housing portion and the intermediate portion and a second chamber between the second housing portion and the intermediate portion;
- wherein the first and second housing portions are each sealed to the intermediate portion such that each of the first and second chambers are hermetically sealed relative to an external space outside the housing and such that the features are sealed within the first chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.