Dismountable connector head for an active implantable medical device such as a pacemaker, a defibrillator and/or cardiovertor

• US 6,574,508 B2
• Filed: 07/31/2001
• Issued: 06/03/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sorin CRM USA (MicroPort Scientific Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Ela Medical S.A. (LivaNova Plc)
• Inventors: Correas, Philippe, DʼHiver, Philippe, Zaouali, Mounir
• Primary Examiner(s): Getzow, Scott M.
• Application Number:
  US09/919,983
• Publication Number:
  US 20020038136A1
• Time in Patent Office: 672 Days
• Field of Search: 607/9, 607/36, 607/37
• US Class Current: 607/36
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/37512 Pacemakers

Abstract

A dismountable connector head for an active implantable medical device such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, and/or cardioverter. The device includes a case (12) comprising on one of its faces a series of emerging insulating traverse (16) structures bearing conducting feed-through leads (14), connected to the internal circuits of the case, and a connector head (10) made of an insulating rigid material, able to receive the terminals of electrical contact. A mechanical connection component (24) is used to solidarize the case with the connector head. The connection component is a removable component able to allow the separation (dismounting) of the connector head from the case after solidarisation of the two parts. The connection component can in particular be an elastically deformable clamp (24), cooperating by two opposed ends with a peripheral groove in the insulating traverses (16) bearing the conducting feed-through leads (14), or a pin similarly engaging a groove in the insulating traverse.

Claims

1. An active implantable medical device such as a pacemaker, defibrillator and/or cardiovertor, comprising:

a case comprising a face having at least one emerging conducting feed-through lead, and at least one insulating traverse extending out of said face bearing said feed-through conductor leads;

a connector head made of a rigid insulating material, able to receive the insulating traverse and the electrical contact terminals and having an aperture; and

a mechanical connection component able to fit in said connector head aperture and engage said at least one insulating traverse to solidarize the case with the connector head, said connection component being a removable component able to allow the separation of the connector head from the case.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein at least one insulating traverse comprises at least one surface feature able to cooperate with the mechanical connection component, said surface feature having a form homologous with the connection component at the point of engagement.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein the surface feature comprises a peripheral groove.

4. The device of claim 2, wherein the mechanical connection component comprises an elastically deformable component able to cooperate with said surface feature by a click-and-ratchet engagement.

5. The device of claim 4, wherein the elastically deformable component is a clamp having a center portion and two opposite ends, and wherein said case further comprises at least two insulating traverses bearing said feed-through conductor leads, and said clamp engages said at least two of said insulating traverses.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the mechanical connection component further comprises a rigid component able to engage removably said insulating traverse.

7. The device of claim 6, wherein the mechanical connection component further comprises a pin able to cooperate with a surface feature of said insulating traverse, and said aperture further comprises a hole for receiving said pin, said insulating traverse surface feature having a groove shape homologous with the pin.

8. An active implantable medical device such as a pacemaker, defibrillator and/or cardiovertor, comprising:

a case comprising a face having at least one emerging conducting feed-through lead, and at least one insulating traverse extending out of said face bearing said feed-through conductor leads;

a connector head made of a rigid insulating material, able to receive the insulating traverse and the electrical contact terminals and having an aperture; and

a mechanical connection component able to fit in said connector head aperture and engage said at least one insulating traverse to solidarize the case with the connector head, said connection component being a removable component able to allow the separation of the connector head from the case;

wherein said at least one insulating traverse comprises at least one surface feature able to cooperate with the mechanical connection component, said surface feature having a form homologous with the connection component at the point of engagement; and

wherein the mechanical connection component comprises an elastically deformable component able to cooperate with said surface feature by a click-and-ratchet engagement.

9. The device of claim 8, wherein the elastically deformable component is a clamp having a center portion and two opposite ends, and wherein said case further comprises at least two insulating traverses bearing said feed-through conductor leads, and said clamp engages said at least two of said insulating traverses.