Subcutaneously implanted electronic device

• US 3,209,081 A
• Filed: 10/02/1961
• Issued: 09/28/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Behrman A. Ducote, Louis E. Adin Jr
• Original Assignee: Behrman A. Ducote, Louis E. Adin Jr
• Inventors: Ducote, Behrman A., Adin, Louis E. Jr.
• Application Number:
  US04/142,375
• Time in Patent Office: 1,457 Days
• US Class Current: 600/25
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 11/04 Methods or devices for enabling ear patients to achieve auditory perception through physiological senses other than hearing sense, e.g. through the touch sense electronic stimulation of auditory nerves A61N1/36036
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/372 Arrangements in connection with the implantation of stimulators
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/378 Electrical supply
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 25/502 using analog signal processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/904 Telephone telemetry

Claims

2. A RECEIVER-AMPLIFIER UNIT FOR USE IN A HEARING AID INCLUDING, AN AUDIO RECEIVER-AMPLIFIER;

A RADIO FREQUENCY SIGNAL RECEIVER INCLUDING A DETECTOR TO DETECT A RADIO FREQUENCY TRANSMITTED BY ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY THERETO;

A CAPACITANCE IN PARALLEL WITH THE DETECTOR ARRANGED TO STORE THE DETECTED VOLTAGE OF THE RADIO FREQUENCY SIGNAL, THE SAID CAPACITANCE BEING CONNECTED TO THE AUDIO RECEIVER-AMPLIFIER, TO SUPPLY POWER THERETO;

A BOARD MEMBER ON WHICH ALL OF THE COMPONENTS OF THE AUDIO RECEIVER-AMPLIFIER, RADIO FREQUENCY SIGNAL DETECTOR AND CAPACITANCE ARE MOUNTED;

A QUANTITY OF TISSUE TORLERANT PLASTIC MATERIAL MOLDED ABOUT THE BOARD AND THE COMPONENTS THEREON TO PROVIDE AN AUDIO RECEIVER-AMPLIFIER AND POWER SUPPLY PERMANENTLY SEALED WITHIN TISSUE TOLERANT MATERIAL WHEREBY IT MAY BE IMPLANTED UNDERNEATH THE SKIN OF A WEARER THEREOF.