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US 8,914,093 B2Granted
Crimp terminations for conductors in implantable medical lead and method of making same
AssigneePacesetter, Inc.
InventorsKeith Victorine, Steven R. Conger, Greg Kampa, Dorab N. Sethna, Daniel Ephraim, Sean Matthew Desmond
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing an implantable medical lead is disclosed herein. The method may include: providing a lead body including a proximal end, a distal end, and an electrode near the distal end; provide a conductor extending between the proximal and distal ends; providing a crimp including a ribbon-like member and extending the ribbon-like member around the conductor; and mechanically and electrically connecting the ribbon-like member to the electrode.
Claims6
An implantable medical lead comprising:
- a longitudinally extending body having a distal end and a proximal end;
- an electrode on the body near the distal end;
- a lead connector end operably coupled to the proximal end of the body;
- a tubular braid arrangement having an electrical conductor braided with an electrical nonconductor;
- a crimp slug comprising a spherical outer surface and a recess formed in the spherical outer surface, the conductor received in the recess, a crimp tool applied to the spherical outer surface to crimp the recess and causing the crimp slug to be electrically and mechanically coupled to the electrode.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.