×

Autonomous intracorporeal capsule with double energy harvesting

  • US 9,095,716 B2
  • Filed: 03/12/2013
  • Issued: 08/04/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
First Claim
Patent Images

1. An intracorporeal medical capsule, comprising:

  • a housing defining a chamber, wherein the chamber houses an oscillating seismic mass and an energy harvester that converts movement of the seismic mass relative to the energy harvester into electrical energy;

    an anchor for anchoring the housing to a wall of an organ of a patient; and

    an elastically deformable element having a first end extending from an exterior surface of the housing and a second end coupled to a base comprising the anchor;

    wherein movement of the seismic mass is caused both by movement of the housing induced by movement of the wall of the organ of the patient to which the housing is anchored, and by movement of housing relative to the wall of the organ by way of the elastically deformable element and caused by the presence of blood flow around the capsule body.

View all claims
  • 1 Assignment
Timeline View
Assignment View
    ×
    ×