Auckland Uniservices Limited

Millar Instruments Limited

Kitea Health Limited

David Mortimer Budgett

Aiguo Hu

John Daniel McCormick

Simon Charles Malpas

Andrew James Taberner

Poul Michael Fonss Nielsen

Jennifer Ann Kruger

Dixon Pok Chung Leung

Ho Yan (Alex) Leung

Bob Wang

John Daniel Mccormick

Poul Michael Nielsen

Ho Yan Leung

A device for use in pressure sensing has a housing enclosing a chamber and having at least one port that communicates with the chamber. A pressure sensor receives fluid pressure from the chamber. The chamber has a compliance that exhibits a marked change in volumetric stiffness repeatably at a fixed pressure.

Implantable pressure sensor

A pressure sensor apparatus includes a plurality of pressure responsive chambers provided along a longitudinal dimension of the apparatus, and a pressure sensor device provided in each chamber which together provide a pressure profile in an anatomical cavity.

Pressure sensor

A device for use in pressure sensing such as hydrocephalus shunts, having a housing enclosing a chamber with at least one port communicating with the chamber. A wall of the chamber includes a flexible portion or thin diaphragm that deflects with transitions in pressure to contact an upstand structure of the housing. A pressure sensor is contained within an enclosure sealed from the chamber by a flexible membrane and which receives fluid pressure from the chamber. This arrangement allows for calibration of the device by identifying a knee feature in pressure data associated with the diaphragm making contact with the upstand.

A pressure sensor apparatus includes: a plurality of pressure responsive chambers provided along a longitudinal dimension of the apparatus, and a pressure sensor device provided in each chamber which together provide a pressure profile in an anatomical cavity.

An inductively powered sensor system includes a primary conductive pathcapable of being energised to provide an electromagnetic field in a defined space. An inductive power pick-upis associated with a sensorand is capable of receiving power from the field to supply the sensor. The system includes a first sensing means to sense the power available to the pick-upand control means to increase or decrease the power available to the sensor dependant on the sensed power available. A method of inductively powering a sensor, an inductively powered sensor and an animal enclosure including one or more primary conductive path of an inductive power supply are also disclosed.

Inductively powered mobile sensor system

The invention relates to inductive power transfer (IPT) systems, and has particular relevance to control of IPT systems, and to operation of IPT system primary power supplier. There is provided a method for controlling an IPT system primary power supply having a switched resonant circuit; the method comprising: determining the value of a parameter of the system; determining an energy injection switching pattern having a duration dependent on the parameter value; controlling the resonant circuit according to the determined energy injection switching pattern.

Inductive power transfer control using energy injection

The present invention provides a power supply for an inductive power transfer (IPT) system, comprising a current-fed push-pull resonant converter comprising a parallel-tuned resonant tank and a pair of switches enabling selective shorting of the resonant tank; and a controller adapted to control a shorting period of the resonant converter by selectively operating the switches. Methods for controlling an IPT power supply are also disclosed. The power supply may be controlled to regulate the output of an IPT pick-up inductively coupled with the power supply in use, or to operate at a zero voltage switching (ZVS) frequency.

Shorting period control in inductive power transfer systems

An inductively powered sensor system includes a primary conductive pathcapable of being energized to provide an electromagnetic field in a defined space. An inductive power pick-upis associated with a sensorand is capable of receiving power from the field to supply the sensor. The system includes a first sensing means to sense the power available to the pick-upand control means to increase or decrease the power available to the sensor dependant on the sensed power available. A method of inductively powering a sensor, an inductively powered sensor and an animal enclosure including one or more primary conductive path of an inductive power supply are also disclosed.

An inductive power transfer system includes a number of controllable reactive components () that allow the resonant frequency of a primary and/or secondary resonant circuit to be controllably varied to thereby control power available to a load ().

Selectable resonant frequency transcutaneous energy transfer system

The present invention provides an inductively powered sensor system having a primary conductive path capable of being energized to provide an electromagnetic field in a defined space. An inductive power pick-up is associated with a sensor and is capable of receiving power from the field to supply the sensor. The system includes a first sensing unit to sense the power available to the pick-up and a control unit to increase or decrease the power available to the sensor dependant on the sensed power available. A method of inductively powering a sensor, an inductively powered sensor and an animal enclosure including one or more primary conductive path of an inductive power supply are also disclosed.

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Pt. Chevalier, New Zealand

David Mortimer Budgett