External coil assembly for a transcutaneous system
AssigneeCochlear Limited
InventorEvelia Ysabel Medina Malaver
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Abstract
An external coil assembly for a transcutaneous system is disclosed. The assembly comprises: a housing having a skin-adjacent surface, an opposing exposed surface and a threaded shaft open to the exposed surface and extending toward the skin-adjacent surface; an external coil secured within the housing; and a magnet with a threaded exterior surface to threadingly engage the threaded shaft, wherein at least one of either the shaft thread or the magnet thread has at least one transverse channel forming discontinuities in the thread.
Claims32
An external coil assembly for a transcutaneous system comprising:
- a housing having a skin-adjacent surface, an opposing exposed surface and a threaded shaft open to the exposed surface and extending toward the skin-adjacent surface;
- an external coil secured within the housing;
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- a magnet with a threaded exterior surface to threadingly engage the threaded shaft,
- wherein at least one of either the shaft thread or the magnet thread has at least one transverse channel forming discontinuities in the thread.
A magnet comprising:
- an exterior surface having a thread configured to engage a threaded shaft in an external coil assembly of a transcutaneous system,
- wherein the magnet thread has at least one transverse channel forming discontinuities in the thread.
An external coil assembly for a transcutaneous system comprising:
- housing means for housing an external coil of a transcutaneous system, the housing means having a skin-adjacent surface, an opposing exposed surface and a threaded shaft open to the exposed surface and extending toward the skin-adjacent surface;
- and
- magnet means having a threaded exterior surface for threadingly engaging the threaded shaft,
- wherein at least one of either the shaft thread or the magnet thread has at least one transverse channel forming discontinuities in the thread.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.