Battery system for implantable medical device
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1. A battery system, comprising:
- a housing having a plurality of walls defining a plurality of chambers, where the plurality of chambers share one or more common walls and two or more of the plurality of chambers provide a volume for one or more battery cells and where the housing provides an electrically common contact for at least two of the plurality of chambers; and
the housing geometrically defined to reside within an implantable medical device.
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Abstract
A battery system and method of manufacture in which at least two batteries, having different chemistries, are integrated into a common housing. The battery system has a unitary housing having at least two chambers, in which each pair of adjacent chambers share a common wall. Each chamber contains one battery, and at least one battery has a different chemical composition than the remaining batteries.
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1. A battery system, comprising:
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a housing having a plurality of walls defining a plurality of chambers, where the plurality of chambers share one or more common walls and two or more of the plurality of chambers provide a volume for one or more battery cells and where the housing provides an electrically common contact for at least two of the plurality of chambers; and
the housing geometrically defined to reside within an implantable medical device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 24)
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19. An implantable medical device, comprising:
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an implantable housing; and
a battery system within the implantable housing for supplying electrical energy to the implantable medical device, in which the battery system comprises a housing having a first plurality of walls defining a plurality of chambers, two or more of the chambers definng a volume for one or more battery cells, the plurality of chambers sharing one or more common walls, and where the housing provides an electrically common contact for at least two of the plurality of chambers; and
the housing geometrically defined to reside within the implantable medical device. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A method for manufacturing a battery system, comprising:
constructing a housing providing a plurality of chambers, two or more chambers of the plurality of chambers providing a volume for one or more battery cells, the two or more chambers sharing one or more common walls, where the housing provides an electrically common contact for at least two of the plurality of chambers, and where the housing is geometrically defined to reside within an implantable device. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40)
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