Medical implant system including base station and medical implant
AssigneeNyxoah SA
InventorsCarsten Müeller, Timo Koch
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Abstract
Exemplary embodiments relate to a control circuit for a base station for transmitting energy to a receiver by means of an electric resonant circuit. The control circuit comprises an evaluation device which is designed to compare energy that has been transmitted to a receiver resonant circuit of the receiver with an energy set value. The control circuit is designed to alter the energy input into the receiver resonant circuit of the receiver by altering a resonant frequency of the resonant circuit on the basis of the result of the comparison.
Claims16
A closed-loop control circuit for a base station for transmitting energy to a receiver by means of an electrical resonant circuit, comprising:
- the electrical resonant circuit;
- an evaluation device which is designed to compare energy transmitted to a receiver resonant circuit of the receiver with a target energy value,
- wherein the closed-loop control circuit is designed to cause a changed energy input into a receiver resonant circuit of the receiver by changing a resonant frequency of the electrical resonant circuit on the basis of a result of the comparison,
- wherein the evaluation device is designed to determine the transmitted energy on the basis of a modulation property of a feedback signal that couples to the electrical resonant circuit,
- wherein the closed-loop control circuit is designed to at least partially counteract a change in a coupling of the electrical resonant circuit to the receiver resonant circuit by changing the resonant frequency of the electrical resonant circuit,
- wherein the closed-loop control circuit is designed to move the resonant frequency of the electrical resonant circuit away from a natural frequency of the receiver resonant circuit if the transmitted energy is greater than the target energy value,
- characterized in that the closed-loop control circuit comprises a resistive element which is coupled to the resonant circuit, has a temporally variable resistivity and comprises an open-loop control connection for receiving an open-loop control signal for changing the resistivity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.