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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2013
Neuronexus Technologies, Inc., Clarence, NY (US);
John P. Seymour, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Abeer Khurram, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
NeuroNexus Technologies, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A test system for medical devices that does not require physical contact with an electrical site along a conductive path is described. Not having to physical contact an electrical site while performing an electrical continuity test avoids potential damage to the site. The test system includes a fluidic channel that dispenses an electrolytic solution onto a first electrical site on the conductive path. A light source irradiates the first site to thereby induce a photoelectrochemical (PEC) effect at an interface thereof. The PEC effect produces a change in both the potential (i.e., voltage) and current carrying ability in the conductive path. That voltage or current is measured at a second site to determine whether there is electrical continuity or discontinuity between the sites on the conductive path.