Implant unit delivery tool

• US 10,052,097 B2
• Filed: 06/17/2014
• Issued: 08/21/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nyxoah SA
• Original Assignee: Nyxoah SA
• Inventors: Mashiach, Adi, Mashiach, Itzik, Siman, Guy
• Primary Examiner(s): FISHBACK, ASHLEY LAUREN
• Application Number:
  US14/307,073
• Publication Number:
  US 20140358026A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,526 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/0482 Needle or suture guides guides for drills, pins or wire A61B17/17; for puncturing needles A61B17/3403
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/0491 Sewing machines for surgery
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/30 Surgical pincettes without pivotal connectionsfor holding suture needles or materials A61B17/0483; wound clamps A61B17/08 ; hand-held gripping tools without pivotal connections in general B25B9/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/24 Detecting, measuring or recording bioelectric or biomagnetic signals of the body or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/389 Electromyography [EMG]
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/0526 Head electrodes A61N1/0551 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/0558 Anchoring or fixation means therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/3601 of respiratory organs
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/36071 Pain
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/3611 Respiration control stimulating respiratory organs A61N1/3601
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/36125 Details of circuitry or electric components
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/36189 using modulation techniques
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/37229 Shape or location of the implanted or external antenna
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/3787 from an external energy source
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/26 using coils
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/266 One coil at each side, e.g. with primary and secondary coils
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/73 for taking measurements, e.g. using sensing coils
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/79 for data transfer in combination with power transfer

Abstract

An implant unit delivery tool is provided. The implant delivery tool may include a body, a holder disposed at a distal end of the body and adapted to hold an implant unit, and an implant activator associated with the body, the implant activator configured to receive power from a power source. The implant activator may be configured to selectively and wirelessly transfer power from the power source to the implant unit during implantation of the implant unit into the body of a subject to cause modulation of at least one nerve in the body of the subject, and determine a degree of nerve modulation response resulting from the selective and wireless transfer of power from the power source to the implant unit claims.

Claims

1. A device for testing a sleep apnea implant during an implantation procedure, comprising:

an implant activator configured to selectively transfer power to the sleep apnea implant during the implantation procedure to cause modulation of at least one hypoglossal nerve prior to final fixation of the sleep apnea implant to tissue, wherein the implant activator includes a power source, the power transferred to the sleep apnea implant is supplied by the power source, the power source is configured to wirelessly transfer power from the power source to the sleep apnea implant, and the implant activator is selectively moveable toward and away from the sleep apnea implant; and

a slideable engagement portion configured to activate the implant activator to cause the implant activator to move from a first position at a first end of a track to a second position a predetermined distance at a second end of the track along a body of the device.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the power source includes a battery.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the implant activator includes a processor configured to regulate the power transfer to the sleep apnea implant.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the implant activator is configured to transfer the power to the sleep apnea implant through radiofrequency transmission.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the slideable engagement portion includes a trigger configured to be engaged by a user to activate the implant activator.