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Telemetry system for a medical device

  • US 4,556,063 A
  • Filed: 12/07/1984
  • Issued: 12/03/1985
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/07/1980
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a transmitter for transmitting signals from an implantable medical device which are representative of either analog or digital values comprising a signal controlled variable frequency oscillator means having a control terminal, signal application means for selectively presenting information signals representative of said digital and analog values to said control terminal to vary the frequency of said oscillator means in response thereto relative to a nominal output frequency of said oscillator means that exists when said information signals are not being supplied, a tank circuit and antenna means having a predetermined ringing frequency of oscillation when pulsed with energy, and drive circuit means coupled to said oscillator means and to said tank circuit and antenna means for supplying pulses of energy to said tank circuit and antenna means at a rate that is proportional to the output frequency of said oscillator means whereupon said pulses are radiated from said tank circuit and antenna means as damped ringing signals;

  • the improvement wherein said signal applicatiion means comprises a selectively activated digital signal means which in a first state provides a first digital current level signal to said control terminal that is representative of a digital "one" and in second state provides a second digital current level signal to said control terminal that is representative of a digital "zero", first and second sources of analog information, a selectively actuated analog signal means which, when selected provides either a first analog current level signal in accordance with the information content of said first source or a second analog current level signal in accordance with the information content of said second source, means for selecting either said first or said second analog current level signal and means for selectively adding said first digital current level signal to said first analog current level signal and for selectively adding said second digital current level signal to said second analog current level signal and means for providing said added current level signals to said control terminal.

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