Sintered electrical bushings

• US 8,886,320 B2
• Filed: 07/15/2013
• Issued: 11/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Heraeus Medevio GmbH & Company KG
• Original Assignee: Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG (Einhorn Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH)
• Inventors: Troetzschel, Jens, Pavlovic, Goran, Manhardt, Harald, Wollenberg, Norbert, Staudt, Nicole
• Primary Examiner(s): Gedeon, Brian T
• Assistant Examiner(s): TEJANI, ANKIT D
• Application Number:
  US13/942,685
• Publication Number:
  US 20130299233A1
• Time in Patent Office: 484 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 607/37
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/02 Prostheses implantable into the body closure means for urethra or rectum or for artificial body openings therefor A61F2/0004
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/3754 Feedthroughs
• CPC Class Codes: B28B 1/00 Producing shaped prefabricated articles from the material using presses B28B3/00; shaping on moving conveyors B28B5/00; producing tubular articles B28B21/00 ; producing articles with embedded elements B28B23/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 43/00 Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors of trolley lines B60M1/28
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/02 Details
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/18 providing line outlets
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49117 Conductor or circuit manufacturing

Abstract

One aspect relates to an electrical bushing for an implantable device including an electrically insulating base body and at least one electrically conductive bushing body that is embedded in at least one bushing opening that extends through the base body. The base body is produced from a sintered ceramic material, characterized in that the at least one bushing body is made of a sintered cermet material or a sintered metallic material. The base body and the at least one bushing body comprise a firmly bonded sintered connection.

Claims

1. An electrical bushing for an implantable device comprising:

an electrically insulating base body; and

at least one electrically conductive bushing body that is embedded in at least one bushing opening that extends through the base body, whereby the base body is produced from a sintered ceramic material, characterized in that the at least one bushing body is made of a sintered cermet material or a sintered metallic material, whereby the base body and the at least one bushing body comprise a firmly bonded sintered connection;

characterized in that the at least one bushing body and the at least one bushing opening in the base body, at least sections thereof, have complementary shapes with non-parallel edges such that slippage is prevented of the bushing body through the bushing opening;

which is produced by;

forming at least one bushing body green blank from a cermet slurry, a cermet powder, a metal powder and/or a slurry made of a metal powder, whereby a shape of the at least one bushing body green blank and a shape of the at least one bushing opening are complementary to each other at least in sections thereof and prevent slippage of the bushing body green blank through the bushing opening; and

applying at least one force to the bushing body green blank and sintering while applying the at least one force.

2. The electrical bushing according to claim 1, characterized in that the base body is connected circumferentially through a firmly bonded sintered connection to a fringe body made of a cermet material, whereby the fringe body comprises a receiving opening, in which the base body is arranged.

3. The electrical bushing according to claim 1, characterized in that it is hermetically sealed for gases and liquids.

4. The electrical bushing according to claim 1, characterized in that the, at least in sections, complementary shape is provided to have an V-shaped, L-shaped, T-shaped and/or Z-shaped cross-section.

5. The electrical bushing according to claim 2, characterized in that the at least one bushing body and the receiving opening in the fringe body, at least sections thereof, have complementary shapes that prevent slippage of the bushing body through the receiving opening.

6. The electrical bushing according to claim 5, characterized in that the, at least in sections, complementary shape is provided to have an V-shaped, L-shaped, T-shaped and/or Z-shaped cross-section.

7. An electrical bushing for an implantable device comprising:

an electrically insulating base body; and

at least one electrically conductive bushing body that is embedded in at least one bushing opening that extends through the base body, whereby the base body is produced from a sintered ceramic material, characterized in that the at least one bushing body is made of a sintered cermet material or a sintered metallic material, whereby the base body and the at least one bushing body comprise a firmly bonded sintered connection, which is produced by;

forming a base body green blank from a ceramic slurry or a ceramic powder such as to have at least one bushing opening that extends through the base body green blank;

forming at least one bushing body green blank from a cermet slurry, a cermet powder, a metal powder and/or a slurry made of a metal powder, whereby a shape of at least one bushing body green blank and a shape of the at least one bushing opening are complementary to each other at least in sections thereof and prevent slippage of the bushing body green blank through the bushing opening;

inserting the at least one bushing body green blank into the at least one bushing opening of the base body green blank to form a composite green blank; and

applying at least one force to the bushing body green blank and/or the base body green blank and sintering the composite green blank while applying the at least one force, whereby the at least one force is directed in a direction of a bracketing of the at least one bushing body green blank in the at least one bushing opening of the base body green blank.

8. An implantable device comprising:

an electrical bushing having an electrically insulating base body; and

at least one electrically conductive bushing body that is embedded in at least one bushing opening that extends through the base body;

wherein the base body is produced from a sintered ceramic material, characterized in that the at least one bushing body is made of a sintered cermet material or a sintered metallic material;

whereby the base body and the at least one bushing body comprise a firmly bonded sintered connection; and

characterized in that the at least one bushing body and the receiving opening in the fringe body, at least sections thereof, have complementary shapes with non-parallel edges such that slippage is prevented of the bushing body through the receiving opening;

which is produced by;

forming at least one bushing body green blank from a cermet slurry, a cermet powder, a metal powder and/or a slurry made of a metal powder, whereby a shape of the at least one bushing body green blank and a shape of the at least one bushing opening are complementary to each other at least in sections thereof and prevent slippage of the bushing body green blank through the bushing opening; and

applying at least one force to the bushing body green blank and sintering while applying the at least one force.

9. The electrical bushing according to claim 8, characterized in that the base body is connected circumferentially through a firmly bonded sintered connection to a fringe body made of a cermet material, whereby the fringe body comprises a receiving opening, in which the base body is arranged.

10. The electrical bushing according to claim 8, characterized in that it is hermetically sealed for gases and liquids.

11. The electrical bushing according to claim 8, characterized in that the at least one bushing body and the at least one bushing opening in the base body, at least sections thereof, have complementary shapes that prevent slippage of the bushing body through the bushing opening.

12. The electrical bushing according to claim 11, characterized in that the, at least in sections, complementary shape is provided to have an V-shaped, L-shaped, T-shaped and/or Z-shaped cross-section.

13. The electrical bushing according to claim 8, characterized in that the, at least in sections, complementary shape is provided to have an V-shaped, L-shaped, T-shaped and/or Z-shaped cross-section.