Deep brain stimulation device having wireless power feeding by magnetic induction

• US 8,412,344 B2
• Filed: 05/14/2008
• Issued: 04/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gachon University of Medicine & Science Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
• Original Assignee: Gachon University of Medicine & Science Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
• Inventors: Lee, Uhn, Choi, Sang Hyouk, Park, Yeon Joon
• Primary Examiner(s): Heller, Tammie K
• Application Number:
  US12/600,032
• Publication Number:
  US 20110046693A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,784 Days
• Field of Search: 607/45, 607/46, 607/48, 607/49, 607/61
• US Class Current: 607/61
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/0534 Electrodes for deep brain stimulation
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/3787 from an external energy source

Abstract

Provided is a deep brain stimulation (DBS) device having power wirelessly fed by magnetic induction. A rotating magnetic field is formed using a rotating magnetic field disk installed inside a hat of a patient. The rotating magnetic field generates induced power using an induction coil plate fixed underneath a scalp of the patient to drive electrodes implanted into a brain of the patient so as to correct abnormal motor and sensory functions of the patient using power wirelessly fed from an external device into the electrodes. The DBS device includes: a hat module installed inside a hat of the patient to generate a rotating magnetic field; and an implantation module implanted through a skull under a scalp to contact a nervous system of the patient and combined with the rotating magnetic field of the hat module to stimulate the cerebral nerve using induced power generated by the magnetic induction.

Claims

1. A deep brain stimulation (DBS) device having power wirelessly fed by a magnetic induction to stimulate a cerebral nerve of a patient having abnormal motor and sensory functions so as to normalize functions of a brain of the patient, the DBS device comprising:

a hat module configured for placement over a head of the patient and to generate a rotating magnetic field;

an implantation module configured to be implanted through a skull under a scalp of the patient to thereby contact a nervous system of the patient, and, when combined with the rotating magnetic field, to stimulate the cerebral nerve using induced power generated by magnetic induction; and

the hat module including a magnetic field disk, wherein a plurality of magnets are attached to a surface of the magnetic field disk along a circumference thereof and the magnetic field disk is configured to spin along with the plurality of magnets to generate the rotating magnetic field.

2. The DBS device of claim 1, wherein the hat module comprises:

the magnetic field disk for generating the rotating magnetic field toward the implantation module to thereby generate power required for driving the implantation module;

an electric motor for rotating the magnetic field disk to thereby generate the rotating magnetic field; and

a controller for controlling the electric motor.

3. The DBS device of claim 1, wherein the implantation module comprises:

a stimulation pin configured to be implanted through the skull under the scalp to thereby contact a deep cerebral nerve and to provide an electric stimulation to the nervous system of the patient;

an induction coil plate which, when combined with the rotating magnetic field generated by the hat module, is configured to generate the induced power; and

a power modulator for modulating the induced power generated by the induction coil plate into power for driving the stimulation pin.

4. The DBS device of claim 3, wherein the induction coil plate comprises:

the power modulator attached to a center of the induction coil plate; and

an induction coil formed of a metal line in a predetermined pattern around the power modulator.

5. The DBS device of claim 3, wherein:

the hat module further comprises a controller and a transmitter configured to be controlled by the controller to transmit a nerve stimulation command signal; and

the implantation module further comprises a receiver for receiving the nerve stimulation command signal from the transmitter and transmitting the nerve stimulation command signal to the power modulator.