St. Jude Medical Ab

Pacesetter Ab

Paul Fr&ouml;berg

Rolf Hill

Per Erik Jarl

Gunnar Magnusson

Paul Brand

G&ouml;ran Johansson

David Jergefalk

A metallic pulse generator housing has a tubular connector which receives a proximal lead end plug, the connector being located inside the housing and having a closed end within the housing and an open end welded or bonded to an opening in a wall of the housing. The connector is formed by a metallic barrel which is weldable or bondable to the metallic housing, the barrel being a structurally unitary tube member with a cavity containing electrical contacts for contacting contact surfaces on the lead end plug. At least one insulating substrate, on which the contacts are carried, is arranged in or on a region of a barrel wall which defines the cavity.

Heart stimulator housing having a tubular connector

An implantable heart stimulator has a connector for an electrode lead in the form of a self-contained tubular connector, which can be placed as a unit in one-half shell of a stimulator housing, together with a hybrid circuit and a power source. The other half shell of the stimulator housing can then simply be placed over these assembled components and joined thereto by welding, thereby considerably simplifying manufacture and assembly of the stimulator. When an even number of such self-contained connector tubes is employed, the two stimulator housing half shells can be identical.

Implantable stimulator housing with electrode connector

Growing community of inventors

Bromma, Sweden

Paul Fröberg

Growing community of inventors

Bromma, Sweden

Paul Fr&ouml;berg

Paul Fröberg