Medtronic, Inc.

Heraeus Deutschland Gmbh & Co Kg

Jean-Francois Fischer

Andrew J Ries

John E Kast

Chris J Paidosh

Ulrich Hausch

Jens Troetzschel

David B Engmark

Dominique Glauser

Stephane Rohrer

Eric F Davila Lozada

Yan Cardineau

Claude Brist

Jose Garcia

One aspect relates to a composite including a ceramic body, including a ceramic, a first surface, and a hole, including a front face, an end face and a lateral surface. The front face is an opening in the first surface. The ceramic body further includes a second surface and conductor a. The conductor aelectrically connects the second surface to the lateral surface, and includes a cermet.

Headerblock with cermet feedthrough for an implantable electrical medical device

An implantable medical device includes a housing; at least one module enclosed within the housing and configured to at least one of generate an electrical stimulation therapy for delivery to a patient or monitor a physiological parameter of the patient; one or more feedthroughs extending through the housing; a header assembly including one or more electrical connectors electrically coupled to the module via the feedthroughs; and a preformed gasket compressed between the housing and the header assembly forming a seal to electrically isolate the feedthroughs from an external environment.

Header assembly for implantable medical device

A welding system with variable environment system is provided that allows devices to be welded in different gas environments. The preferred welding system uses a controllable gas delivery system that provides different gas mixtures to a welding chamber at different times. Thus, welding in different gas mixtures can be performed in a single welding chamber. This allows the devices to be welded both in environments that promote effective welding and in environments that have specific characteristics desirable for gases that remain in the completed device. Thus the system facilitates the formation of different types of devices in a single welding chamber, and in a single manufacturing line.

Variable environment laser weld system

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Jean-Francois Fischer