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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2017
Applicant:
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
MEDTRONIC, INC., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/375 (2006.01); B23K 35/30 (2006.01); B23K 35/32 (2006.01); B23K 101/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/3754 (2013.01); B23K 35/3013 (2013.01); B23K 35/322 (2013.01); B23K 2101/38 (2018.08); Y10T 29/49149 (2015.01);
Abstract
A method of interconnecting a conductor and a hermetic feedthrough of an implantable medical device includes welding a lead to a pad on a feedthrough. The feedthrough includes a ceramic insulator and a via hermetically bonded to the insulator. The via includes platinum. The pad is bonded to the insulator and electrically connected to the via, includes platinum, and has a thickness of at least 50 μm. The lead includes at least one of niobium, platinum, titanium, tantalum, palladium, gold, nickel, tungsten, and oxides and alloys thereof.