Closing system and electronic control method
First Claim
1. A closing system, preferably an implantable closing system, for the selective closing and opening of a tubular body organ, comprising a closing element and a regulating system controlling the closing element, with the regulating system setting a first condition of the closing system and returning a deviation from the first condition in a self-regulating manner back to the first condition.
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Abstract
A closing system is described and a correspondingly suitable method for the selective opening and closing of a tubular body organ, comprising a closing element and a regulating system controlling the closing element. Furthermore described are a method and a system for the electronic control of an artificial fine-sensory sphincter implant, with at least one sensor signal or, respectively, sensor value acting—in the method or, respectively, in the system—analog to the difference between the internal bladder pressure and the cuff pressure, and being converted in an analog or digital electronic circuit by means of calculator and comparator functions or, respectively, calculator and comparator elements and being compared with reference values such that an actuator system will be controlled such that the cuff pressure or, respectively, the differential pressure between cuff and urinary bladder moves either in a low area limited by two threshold values or above a specific safety pressure or below that in case of miction.
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37 Claims
- 1. A closing system, preferably an implantable closing system, for the selective closing and opening of a tubular body organ, comprising a closing element and a regulating system controlling the closing element, with the regulating system setting a first condition of the closing system and returning a deviation from the first condition in a self-regulating manner back to the first condition.
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12. A method for the electronic control of an artificial fine-sensory sphincter implant, characterized in that—
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a sensor signal or, respectively, sensor value (1) acting analog to the difference between internal bladder pressure (11) and the cuff pressure (4) in an analog or digital electronic circuit, being converted by means of calculator and comparator functions such and compared with reference values that an actuator system will be controlled such that the cuff pressure or, respectively, the differential pressure between cuff and urinary bladder either moves in a low range limited by two threshold values or above a certain safety pressure or, respectively, below that in case of miction. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A system for the electronic control of an artificial fine-sensory sphincter implant, characterized in that—
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at least one sensor signal or, respectively, sensor value (1) behaves analog to the difference between internal bladder pressure (11) and cuff pressure (4) being converted in an analog or digital electronic circuit by means of calculator and comparator elements such and compared with reference values such that an actuator system will be controlled such that the cuff pressure or, respectively, the differential pressure between cuff and urinary bladder either moves in a low range limited by two threshold values or above a specific safety pressure or, respectively, below that in case of miction. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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