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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2001
Filed:
May. 10, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alexander Dolgin, Lexington, MA (US);
Thomas C. Rintoul, Gold River, CA (US);
Assignee:
Thoratec Corporation, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/02 ;
Abstract
A device, system and method for transcutaneous energy transfer (TET). Implanted circuitry suitable for conditioning the power delivered transcutaneously may be constructed in planar fashion, may be located in or near an implanted coil, and may be oriented such that the plane of the circuitry is substantially tangent to the lines of magnetic flux. The orientation of the circuitry may reduce eddy currents and their potentially harmful effects.