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|Oct 6, 2009
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|Jun 24, 2004
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|Jun 24, 2004
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|James R. Giordano, Daniel F. Dlugos, Jr., William L. Hassler, Jr.
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|Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.
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|Patent Citations (55), Non-Patent Citations (14), Referenced by (71), Classifications (5), Legal Events (4)
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The present application is related to four co-pending and commonly-owned applications filed on even date herewith, the disclosure of each being hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety, entitled respectively:
"MEDICAL IMPLANT HAVING CLOSED LOOP TRANSCUTANEOUS ENERGY TRANSFER (TET) POWER TRANSFER REGULATION CIRCUITRY" to William L. Hassler, Jr., Ed Bloom, Ser. No. 10/876,038;
"SPATIALLY DECOUPLED TWIN SECONDARY COILS FOR OPTIMIZING TRANSCUTANEOUS ENERGY TRANSFER (TET) POWER TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS" to Reshai Desai, William L. Hassler, Jr., Ser. No. 10/876,057, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,191,007;
"LOW FREQUENCY TRANSCUTANEOUS TELEMETRY TO IMPLANTED MEDICAL DEVICE" to William L. Hassler, Jr., Ser. No. 10/876058; and
"LOW FREQUENCY TRANSCUTANEOUS ENERGY TRANSFER TO IMPLANTED MEDICAL DEVICE" to William L. Hassler, Jr., Daniel F. Dlugos, Jr., Ser. No. 10/876,307.
The present invention relates, in general, to medically implantable devices that receive transcutaneous energy transfer (TET), and more particularly, such implant devices that optimize power transfer.
In a TET system, a power supply is electrically connected to a primary coil that is external to a physical boundary, such as the skin of the human body. A secondary coil is provided on the other side of the boundary, such as internal to the body. With a subcutaneous device, both the primary and secondary coils are generally placed proximate to the outer and inner layers of the skin. Energy is transferred from the primary coil to the secondary coil in the form of an alternating magnetic field. The secondary coil converts the transferred energy in the AC magnetic field to electrical power for the implant device, which acts as a load on the secondary coil.
In a TET system, the primary and secondary coils are placed on separate sides of the boundary or skin. This separation typically results in variations in the relative distance and spatial orientation between the coils. Variations in the spacing can cause changes in the AC magnetic field strength reaching the secondary coil, in turn causing power fluctuations and surges in the implant device. Implant devices, such as those used in medical applications, usually rely upon a microcontroller to perform various functions. These microcontrollers require a consistent, reliable power source. Variations in the supplied power, such as sudden changes in voltage or current levels, may cause the device to perform erratically or fail to function at all. Accordingly, one issue associated with conventional TET systems is that the physical displacement of either the primary or secondary coils from an optimum coupling position may cause an unacceptable effect on the output power supplied to the implanted device.
As an example of an implantable device that may benefit from use of TET is an artificial sphincter, in particular an adjustable gastric band that contains a hollow elastomeric balloon with fixed end points encircling a patient's stomach just inferior to the esophago-gastric junction. These balloons can expand and contract through the introduction of saline solution into the balloon. In generally known adjustable gastric bands, this saline solution must be injected into a subcutaneous port with a syringe needle to reach the port located below the skin surface. The port communicates hydraulically with the band via a catheter. While effective, it is desirable to avoid having to adjust the fluid volume with a syringe needle since an increased risk of infection may result, as well as inconvenience and discomfort to the patient.
To that end, in the below-referenced co-pending applications, an implanted infuser device regulates the flow of saline without requiring injection into the subcutaneous port. This system instead transfers AC magnetic flux energy from an external primary coil to a secondary coil that powers the pump in the implant connected to the gastric band within the abdomen.
Although such TET powering of an implant, such as to recharge batteries, is a generally known procedure, using TET for an artificial sphincter system, such as an adjustable gastric band, presents a number of challenges. Adjustable gastric bands are most beneficial to patients that are morbidly obese. Providing a secure location to subcutaneously attach an implant that presents a reduced incident of discomfort often means that the implant is under a thick layer of skin and adipose tissue. A major challenge in using TET thus is transferring magnetic energy between the primary and secondary coils through this thick layer of tissue, which thus reduces the effective amount of power transferred to the implant.
It is also generally known to include a magnetic shield across an external side of a primary coil used in TET powering of an artificial heart, such as described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,389,318. Such magnetic shields are generally a flat disk that overlays the top and sides of the primary coil for the purpose of shielding from other conductors in the external environment. Perforations are included for ventilation since such primary coils are continually positioned on the patient. To be conformal, a preferred material is silicon impregnated with ferrite powder so that its low magnetic loss serves as a back plane that reflects magnetic energy from the primary coil. While providing advantages for external sources of electromagnetic interference, such shields are not believed to substantially assist in directing the magnetic flux to the secondary coil of an implanted medical device.
While the shield described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,389,318 provided some shaping of the magnetic flux from the primary coil, one undesirable characteristic thereof was that the magnetic flux was flattened, providing less efficient power coupling to deeply embedded implantable devices. In the application described for artificial hearts, the secondary coil was near to the surface of the patient's skin and thus this apparently did not pose a problem.
In U.S. Pat. No. 5,715,837, enhancing the effectiveness of TET was addressed by increasing the magnetic permeability of the flux path through the dermis of the patient by implanting soft iron pellets therein. It would be undesirable to implant metal pellets for a number of reasons. First, in the morbidly obese patient, it may require a significant amount of pellets to seed the flux path. Second, the patient may object to this permanent implantation. Third, being ferrous objects, tissue damage or discomfort may result if the patient were in the presence of a strong magnetic field typical of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine. Fourth, these ferrous objects would create artifacts that would hamper diagnostic imaging such as MRI and CT. Fifth, the chemical or physical properties of these pellets may have a deleterious effect on the dermis.
It is further inconvenient to shape the magnetic flux as described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,715,837 with opposing horseshoe shaped ferrite cores insofar as it is desirable to eliminate such mass from an implanted device to make it smaller. In addition, it is further desirable to eliminate materials that respond to strong magnetic fields, as mentioned with regard to soft iron pellets or a partially exposed, implanted ferrite core.
In U.S. Pat. No. 5,279,292, a charging system for an implantable hearing aid or tinnitus masker included a receiving coil that is implanted under the skin in mastoid. The receiving coil included a ferrite core that projected outward through the skin. Thus, a transmitting coil is placed over the exposed end of the ferrite core, mechanically aligning the primary coil and enhancing magnet coupling to the receiving core. Due to the relatively small amount of power transferred, the ferrite core is described as being small and unobtrusive and being hidden behind the external ear. However, it is undesirable to have an exposed implant that tends to allow infections. In addition, use of a transformer instead of TET as in this application also makes the implant not compatible with MRI machines.
Consequently, a significant need exists for enhancing TET power transfer from a primary coil through the dermis of a patient to an implanted device that contains a secondary coil.
The invention overcomes the above-noted and other deficiencies of the prior art by providing a transcutaneous energy transfer (TET) system that includes a primary coil having a magnetic flux shaping member centered within its circular diameter, thereby forming a toroidal magnetic flux field with an implanted secondary coil in a patient that is more elliptical in cross section. Thereby, greater power coupling efficiency is achieved, enabling medical implants to be placed at greater depths. Thus, applications such as remotely controllable adjustable gastric bands for the morbidly obese may be used without having to resort to inconveniently high power levels nor to having to embed separate secondary coils near the surface of the dermal layer.
In one aspect of the invention, an external TET device includes a circular power coil that is energized at a resonant frequency to provide magnetic flux to a secondary coil of an implanted medical device. A very highly magnetically permeable member is centered within the primary coil to shape a resulting magnetic field into a more elliptical toroidal shape with respect to its longitudinal axis.
These and other objects and advantages of the present invention shall be made apparent from the accompanying drawings and the description thereof.
The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention, and, together with the general description of the invention given above, and the detailed description of the embodiments given below, serve to explain the principles of the present invention.
Referring now to the drawings in detail, wherein like numerals indicate the same elements throughout the views,
As an example of an implanted device 14 that would benefit from TET is an infuser device, described in greater detail in the referenced applications, that regulates the amount of fluid dispensed bi-directionally into an expandable gastric band following implantation of the band during weight reduction surgery. The TET system 10 may consist of the primary coil 16 occasionally placed outside a patient's abdomen when adjustment of the gastric band is desired and the secondary coil 18 within an infuser implanted device 14 that has been anchored subcutaneously on a layer of muscular fascia within the patient. The illustrative primary coil 16, having an outer diameter (OD) of about five (5) inches (13 cm) and consisting of one hundred two (102) turns of litz wire made up of one hundred (100) individually insulated thirty (30)-gauge magnet wires, is connected in parallel with 9.2 microfarads of capacitance, creating a parallel tuned resonant tank circuit with a very high Q. The secondary coil 18 is connected in series with a capacitor 28 forming a series tuned resonant tank circuit and is activated by receiving AC magnetic flux energy from the primary coil 16. The two tuned tank circuits 24, 30 are tuned to the same frequency for optimal power transfer.
Implantable, bi-directional infusing devices that would benefit from enhanced TET powering and telemetry are disclosed in four co-pending and co-owned patent applications filed on May 28, 2004, the disclosure of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety, entitled (1) "PIEZO ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN BELLOWS INFUSER FOR HYDRAULICALLY CONTROLLING AN ADJUSTABLE GASTRIC BAND" to William L. Hassler, Jr., Ser. No. 10/857,762; (2) "METAL BELLOWS POSITION FEED BACK FOR HYDRAULIC CONTROL OF AN ADJUSTABLE GASTRIC BAND" to William L. Hassler, Jr., Daniel F. Dlugos, Jr., Rocco Crivelli, Ser. No. 10/856,971; (3) "THERMODYNAMICALLY DRIVEN REVERSIBLE INFUSER PUMP FOR USE AS A REMOTELY CONTROLLED GASTRIC BAND" to William L. Hassler, Jr., Daniel F. Dlugos, Jr., Ser. No. 10/857,315; and (4) "BI-DIRECTIONAL INFUSER PUMP WITH VOLUME BRAKING FOR HYDRAULICALLY CONTROLLING AN ADJUSTABLE GASTRIC BAND" to William L. Hassler, Jr., Daniel F. Dlugos, Jr., Ser. No. 10/857,763.
This enhanced power transfer is depicted in
To achieve the greatest energy transfer efficiency, a highly magnetically permeable ferrite core 62 has been placed within the primary coil 16. As stated previously, we determined that the optimum core 62 is of a long, skinny design. Testing indicates that a ferrite core rod 62 with a length of about 3 inches and a width of about 0.75 inches is the optimal size for the given primary coil 16 at which energy transfer is at its most efficient without going into magnetic saturation or wasting energy in the form of eddy current losses within the core 62.
With the long and slender core design, most of the magnetic flux is drawn toward the ferrite core 62, causing the field to collapse radially into the core 62 and changing the shape of the field 52 from circular to elliptical. This effect leads to an increase in the flux density within the secondary coil 18. In an exemplary version, a ferrite core of 3 inches length and 0.75 inches diameter was placed within the center of a 5 inch diameter primary coil 16 of the transcutaneous energy transfer (TET) system 10. With the addition of this core 62, the power coupling efficiency to the secondary TET coil was increased by up to 55%.
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By virtue of the foregoing, the elliptical shape of the magnetic field increases the coupling efficiency between the primary and secondary TET coils. Increased coupling efficiency between the coils reduces the amount of power required from the primary coil and also increases the range at which the external primary coil can be separated from the subcutaneous secondary coil, an important consideration in facilitating weight reduction surgery where thick abdominal walls are typically encountered.
While the present invention has been illustrated by description of several embodiments and while the illustrative embodiments have been described in considerable detail, it is not the intention of the applicant to restrict or in any way limit the scope of the appended claims to such detail. Additional advantages and modifications may readily appear to those skilled in the art.
For example, it will become readily apparent to those skilled in the art that the above invention has equal applicability to other types of implantable bands. For example, bands are used for the treatment of fecal incontinence. One such band is described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,461,292, which is hereby incorporated herein by reference. Bands can also be used to treat urinary incontinence. One such band is described in U.S. patent application 2003/0105385, which is hereby incorporated herein by reference. Bands can also be used to treat heartburn and/or acid reflux. One such band is described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,470,892, which is hereby incorporated herein by reference. Bands can also be used to treat impotence. One such band is described in U.S. Patent Application Publ. No. 2003/0114729, which is hereby incorporated herein by reference.
As another example, it should be appreciated that a shaping magnetic flux with a highly magnetically permeable member centered within the primary coil enhances transcutaneous energy transfer used for telemetry in addition to or in the alternative to TET for powering an implanted device. For instance, a primary coil may be used intermittently for telemetry sending or receiving or include a primary telemetry coil in addition to a primary power coil.
As yet a further example, it should be appreciated that in applications that require a relatively low amount of power transfer and/or only occasional periods of time for TET, materials chosen for the core may include those subject to eddy currents and heating. Alternatively, thermally insulating materials may be included to protect the skin of the patient from discomfort or injury.
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Jordan dominated basketball from the mid-1980's to the late 1990's. He led the Chicago Bulls to 6 National championships, and earned the National Basketball Assocation's Most Valuable Player Award 5 times.
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A plausibility structure is the set of ideas of that a person is willing to entertain as possibly true. It is largely a function of the beliefs a person already has.
Lewis demonstrates how to do this in his dialog between the Professor, Susan and Peter in his blockbuster book (now turned movie), The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
I describe the entire dialog in my blog post called Narnian Apologetics.
What I like so much about this conversation is how the Professor, in a gentle but skillful manner, stretches the plausibility structures of Peter and Susan. He does it using the Columbo tactic of asking good questions.
It is an excellent example of conversational apologetics. Who said The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe is a children's book anyway?
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I agree that it is hard to acess whether TC produces more sports than
dividing in containers or in the field. It would have to be determined
experimentally. You are also right that all buds survive in the lab jars.
How I wish the all greens and all yellows would just die off. A plant
without chlorophyll can not grow in the ground, but it has no trouble
growing in culture. I think the other thing to remember is that sports
appearing in the field are rarely propagated, but can easily be missed in
the lab. Put Pauls Glory into culture and that nice gold center completly
vanishes. Try to cut Pauls Glory without culls (there are many Hosta where
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> I on the other hand, would like to do more than imply, I have come to
> the conclusion, that sports are far more frequent in TC than in other
> kinds of growing and dividing situations. I have come to accept that no
> matter who I get my TC from, there will likely be at least one in twenty
> "off types" in many varieties. >>
>On a natural Hosta clump I think that many of the sport buds never get a
>chance to grow-they tend to be the newer smaller eyes that do not grow
>the terminal buds or stems are damaged. They also tend not to be the
>stronger growing buds unless they are an all green form on a variegated
>plant. thus they are over come and suppressed by other stems
>In tissue culture All "buds" get a more or less equal chance of growing.
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- 1 1⁄3 cups warm water
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- 2 1⁄2 teaspoons salt
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- paprika, for sprinkling
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They have two large Cruise ship piers
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It doesnt look too good. Try to find the harbourmaster email and ask him before. I will bet that you have to anker in the "bay" in front of Charly and Charly...
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Again check with the harbourmaster first.
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I spent my first night huddled up in the branches of a pine tree. All I had with me was the clothes I was wearing, my atlatl and my newly acquired shot gun. I loaded the shotgun by slipping four rounds into the bottom tube magazine then pumped it. That sound is something everybody recognizes and in my opinion, there is nothing sweeter. I loaded one more shell into the mag then slung it on my back and tried to place the rest of my ammunition in my various pockets. My main two pockets would easily hold about six shells each. My other pockets would be too hard to get at under pressure. With the twelve in my pockets and the four in the gun, I was left with nine shells from the first box and the second full box of twenty five. I pulled the six out of my left pocket and put them in my right after a bit of shuffling. I made sure they were easy enough to pull out in a hurry then I stuffed the second box into my left pocket. There was not going to be any way to get to those shells if I needed them. I put the last nine shells in the front pockets of my pants.
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Then he disappeared. I lowered the gun and watched as he was swept away by the current. I stood there and watched three more, their arms waving above their heads as they bobbed down the river. A smile cracked my face as I waved back.


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John led her away from the lights and the cops and the sound of the gurney being put into the ambulance. He took her away from Daniel. Away from what he had done, so that she would never know. When they were far enough down the block, he released her. Eden looked back at him, her hazel eyes full of tears.
"What happened?" she asked, her voice tight.
"I don't know for certain," he replied. "The cops were there when I rounded the corner. Then I found Daniel's phone."
Eden shook her head. "He never lets his phone out of his sight. He always has it on him. He'd never let someone else take it."
"Unless he didn't have a choice," John replied grimly.
"Who the hell would want to hurt Daniel? He never did anything to anyone."
"Maybe it was random then," John answered. "That happens more than we realize."
"I have to go back," she said, and moved passed him. "I have to talk to the police. Maybe they'll call me. Did you give them his phone after you found it?"
John nodded, slipped his hand into his pocket, and wrapped his fingers around Daniel's cell. "They'll call you. There's nothing more you can do here. Now, come along. You look like you could use a drink."
"Drinking won't bring him back," Eden said as she walked with him. "It will just make me feel numb."
John turned around. "Then what you need is more than alcohol. I'll cook you some dinner and we'll try and figure this out together."
Slowly, Eden nodded.
John smiled and put out his hand. "Trust me."


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Know your body type. I know this should seem obvious, but I still find myself staring wistfully at store windows, wondering if I can squeeze myself into a dress or top that clearly wasn't designed with me in mind. I hear women complain about their bodies all the time, but there's no such thing as a bad body type. There are, however, poor fashion choices that don't highlight your best assets.
With each generation, the adoption of a new style standard represented more than a change in aesthetic tastes as trends represent today in the seesaw of what's-new-what's-next-what's-cool; style has always been tied to some sort of revolution. Today, with nothing that can't be created, nothing that can't be found, nothing that can't be knocked off, we really can have it all.
Style has little to do with cash. Take your cues from the runway, but don't think you have to wear couture to be cool. It's only a tiny percentage of the population that can afford what comes down the catwalk after all. So borrow ideas from the fashion stage but interpret them for yourself by shopping smartly from shops that cater to your price point. And be okay with that.
I've always loved the idea of a signature scent, something that embodied me and became a personal statement. Fragrance reacts differently on different people, so how your signature scent smells on you and to you is different than how it smells in the bottle. That means that even a very popular fragrance can become highly personalized -- it won't smell the same on you as it does on other people.
Style is not only a matter of personal taste. Even cities have their own unique fashion sensibility. For instance, New York feels more fashion-forward and dark. L.A., on the other hand, is more colourful and airy. From shoes to jewelry (and a lot in between!), here are some of my favourite shopping spots.
There is a calm cohesiveness in today's wardrobe, an unstructured connection of favourite pieces -- and yet this eclectic selection reflects the individual psyche. Age is no longer a factor. People have the confidence to be comfortable in their own skin, their own clothes and their own bodies, to have fun, to enjoy.