Pacer housing

• US 6,192,276 B1
• Filed: 09/17/1999
• Issued: 02/20/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Pacesetter AB
• Original Assignee: Pacesetter AB
• Inventors: Strandberg, Hans
• Primary Examiner(s): Getzow, Scott M.
• Application Number:
  US09/381,307
• Time in Patent Office: 522 Days
• Field of Search: 607/36, 607/37
• US Class Current: 607/36
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/3752 Details of casing-lead connections

Abstract

A pacemaker housing has a socket for receiving a plug of an electrode lead, the socket being located in an opaque part of the housing, and the housing having an exterior marking which indicates a proper insertion depth for the plug into the socket. The plug of the electrode lead can be provided with one or more markings which successively proceed toward the side of the housing having the socket opening therein, with one of the markings coinciding with the edge of the socket when the plug is inserted to a proper depth into the socket.

Claims

1. In a pacemaker housing having a socket adapted to receive a plug of an electrode, said housing having an opaque portion and said socket being located in said opaque portion and having a socket opening at a side of said housing, the improvement comprising:

markings at an exterior of said housing indicating an insertion depth for the plug into the socket.

2. A pacemaker housing as claimed in claim 1 wherein said markings indicate a direction of said socket.

3. A pacemaker housing as claimed in claim 2 wherein said markings indicate a location of said socket.

4. A pacemaker housing as claimed in claim 3 wherein said markings comprise a representation of a shape of a longitudinal section of said socket.

5. An electrode lead having a plug adapted to be received in a socket in a side of a pacemaker housing, said plug comprising:

a plug element having an exterior surface; and

at least one scale mark disposed on said exterior surface of said plug element said scale mark moving increasingly closer to a side of said housing as said plug element is inserted into said housing, and being disposed at a distance from a tip of said plug element so that when said plug element is properly inserted in said socket, said scale mark substantially coincides with an edge of said housing.

6. A plug as claimed in claim 5 comprising a plurality of scale marks on said exterior of said plug element.

7. A pacemaker and electrode lead combination comprising:

a pacemaker having a pacemaker housing containing a socket having a socket opening at a side of said housing, said housing having an opaque part in which said socket is located;

an electrode lead having a plug insertable into said socket, said plug having scale marks thereon which successively proceed toward said side of said housing as said plug is inserted into said socket, with one of said scale marks coinciding with an edge of said socket when said plug is properly inserted into said socket; and

said pacemaker housing having markings at an exterior thereof indicating a proper insertion depth for said plug into said socket.

8. A combination as claimed in claim 7 wherein said markings indicate a direction of said socket.

9. A combination as claimed in claim 8 wherein said markings indicate a location of said socket.

10. A combination as claimed in claim 9 wherein said markings comprise a representation of a shape of a longitudinal section of said socket.