Mhn Biotech LLC

Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Howard S Newman

Marcel I Horowitz

Arthur L Burnett

John H Thompson

Frederick G Geil

Linwood M Rowe, Jr

Henry M Gruen

Thomas J Ratz

A wirelessly powered inflatable medical implant system includes a medical provider software application, a patient external controller and a MR-Conditional, nonferrous pump in reservoir implant. The medical provider software application programs the patient external controller for the patient to transmit wireless power and control signals to circuitry in a pump in reservoir implant. In response, the pump in reservoir implant, containing a fluid reservoir and pump package submerged therein, transfers fluid from the reservoir through tubing, and into one or more inflatable medical implants. Submerging the pump package within the reservoir simplifies surgery in males and pump placement in females and provides pump package heatsinking to limit implant overheating.

Transdermally powered MR-conditional medical implant inflator system

Embodiments of the present disclosure include a system for anchoring implantable medical devices to bones. It includes an implantable medical device such as an inflatable penile prosthesis, a sliding edge clamp for anchoring at least partially around a bone, and a prosthesis receptacle coupled to the sliding edge clamp and extending outwardly and positioned to receive the prosthesis.

Pelvic anchor for penile prosthetic implants

A wirelessly controlled inflatable medical implant system includes an external control module and an implantable module. The external control module may transmit wireless power and control signals, which are received by circuitry on a flexible printed circuit board in the implantable module. In response to the received signals, circuitry in the flexible printed circuit board may cause a motor and pump combination to transfer fluid from a reservoir in the implantable device, through tubing, and into inflatable medical implant located in the penis. The flexible printed circuit board, motor, and pump may be placed within the fluid reservoir, which provides a heat sink that prevents overheating of the implant.

Transdermally powered electric pump in reservoir inflator for inflatable medical implants

A hydrophone array wherein each individual hydrophone of the array is comprised of, e.g. polyvinylidine fluoride (PVF.sub.2), tiles bonded to a substrate member opposite one another on opposite surfaces of the substrate. The substrate is a relatively stiff, metallic member having a Young's modulus of at least an order of magnitude greater than the PVF.sub.2 tiles which are oriented such that their stretch directions on either side of the substrate are parallel to one another. The directions of polarization of the tiles are either the same or opposite and electrical connections are made such that for a predetermined relative orientation of the directions of polarization, any output signal which may be caused by flexing or acceleration of the substrate is substantially reduced or eliminated.

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Annapolis, MD, United States of America

Howard S Newman