132 results about "Cochlea implant" patented technology

The invention relates to a multi-channel light stimulation-based cochlear implant device. The device comprises a multi-channel light stimulation device, a multi-channel light pulse control circuit, a voice signal acquisition deice and a voice signal processing and encoding device, wherein the device acquires a voice signal and encodes the voice signal into a light stimulation signal; and the light stimulation signal stimulates cochlear auditory nerve through a cochlea-implanted multi-channel light pulse output port to cause nerve impulse so as to form hearing in a central nervous system. The multi-channel light stimulation-based cochlear implant solves the problem of compatibility of a stimulating electrode and biological tissue in the electronic cochlear implant and also solves the problem of mutual interference between stimulating channels caused by current diffusion in the tissue.

Drug delivery systems and biocompatible coatings for use with implantable stimulation devices such as cochlear implants have been developed. These drug delivery systems and coatings comprise polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) polymers and copolymers. The drug delivery systems may be used to deliver pharmacologically active substances, for example, directly from a cochlear implant to the inner ear. The coatings can impart lubricity to cochlear devices for ease of insertion of the electrodes. In the preferred embodiment, the drug delivery system comprises a polyhydroxyalkanoate polymer, and in the most preferred embodiment, the PHA polymer comprises poly(4-hydroxybutyrate) (P(4HB)) or copolymer thereof. A particularly preferred embodiment is where the silicone sheath of the cochlear implant electrodes has been surface modified, and coated with P(4HB), and the P(4HB) either contains a pharmacologically active substance or has been coated with such a substance.

The invention discloses an electronic cochlear debugging platform based on a local area network (LAN), and belongs to the technical field of electronic cochlear implantation. The electronic cochlear debugging platform is characterized by comprising person computer (PC) end electronic cochlear algorithm experimental platform software, an embedded processor module, an audio module, a modulation and power amplification module and a wireless transmitting coil. The PC end electronic cochlear algorithm experimental platform software is mainly used for controlling an electronic cochlear working mode and working parameters and carrying out data communication with the embedded processor module in a form of LAN communication; the embedded processor module comprises a low power consumption dual-core processor OMAP-L137 containing a digital signal processor (DSP) and an accumulator read-in module (ARM) and a protective circuit; the audio unit comprises an audio decoder-coder, a sound acquisition interface connected with a microphone, and an earphone output interface; the modulation and power amplification module comprises a baseband signal generating circuit, an amplifying and filtering circuit, a modulation circuit and a power amplifying circuit; and the wireless transmitting coil is mainly used for being coupled with an electronic cochlear implant and transmitting data and energy. The electronic cochlear debugging platform can be used for development and research of parameter debugging and new algorithms.

A cochlear implant including a cochlear lead, an antenna, a stimulation processor, and an implant magnet apparatus, associated with the antenna, including a case defining a central axis, a first disk-shaped magnet member, located within the case and rotatable relative to the case about the central axis of the case, including a magnetic north portion (“N-portion”), a magnetic south portion (“S-portion”) and an amagnetic portion (“AM-portion”), and a second disk-shaped magnet member, located within the case and rotatable relative to the case about the central axis of the case, including a N-portion, a S-portion and an AM-portion.

A cochlear implant exomagnet that includes a magnet apparatus and a magnet mount configured to secure the magnet apparatus to a cochlear implant in such a manner that the magnet apparatus is not located within the internal magnet pocket of the cochlear implant.

A cochlear implant headpiece, for use with a cochlear implant, including a housing, a diametrically magnetized headpiece magnet, defining an axis and a N-S direction, within the housing and rotatable about the axis, whereby the N-S direction of the headpiece magnet self-aligns with the gravitational direction when the axis is perpendicular to the gravitational direction, and a headpiece antenna associated with the housing.

An implantable electrode arrangement for a cochlear implant system is described. The arrangement includes a flexible intracochlear electrode array having an outer surface with electrode contacts for applying cochlear stimulation signals to target neural tissue within the implanted cochlea. A flexible extracochlear electrode lead is coupled at a lead proximal end to an implanted signal processor that provides the cochlear stimulation signals, and connected at a lead distal end to a proximal end of the electrode array. A lead holder is connected to the lead distal end and has an initial shape. The lead holder is malleable and adapted to be intra-surgically deformed into and retain a new desired shape so as to secure the lead distal end at the electrode opening into the implanted cochlea and decouple post-surgical mechanical strain at the lead distal end from the electrode array.

A document discusses, among other things, systems and methods for robotically assisted implantation of an implant in a patient. A system includes an external positioning unit configured to engage an elongate member of the implant, and a control console communicatively coupled to the external positioning unit. The control console may have a user interface that enables a user to input motion controlinstructions. The control console may generate a motion control signal, according to a specific motion control instruction, to control the external positioning unit to propel the implant into a target implant site. The system may be used to robotically control the delivery and positing of a cochlear implant during a hearing-preservation cochlear implant surgery.

The invention discloses an electric cochlea speech processor and processing method with signal compression in a wide dynamic range. The electric cochlea speech processing method comprises the following steps that: a processing unit performs pre-emphasis processing and frequency division processing on transmitted acoustic signals by a frequency division module, and processing results are combined into M channels; according to a comfortable threshold parameter or a perception threshold parameter measured in advance of the M channels of an electric cochlea implanted person, a compression unit calculates an acoustic signal intensity parameter corresponding to an electric stimulation perception threshold or an acoustic signal intensity parameter corresponding to a comfortable threshold by an acoustic-electric compression function; then by adopting the parameter as an inflection point, and according to a compression curve in the wide dynamic range enveloped by a frequency spectrum, the compression unit calculates sound intensity after compression of each channel; and finally, after wide-dynamic compression, output sound intensity is subjected to acoustic-electric stimulus compression and then is output. The electric cochlea speech processor enhances signal processing efficiency and improves individual speech recognition ability of the electric cochlea implanted person.

A method of fitting to a recipient a cochlear implant including a plurality of stimulation channels. The method comprises applying to at least one stimulation channel of the cochlear implant a first stimulus signal comprising a neural response component and a psychophysics signal component, automatically measuring a strength of an evoked compound action potential (ECAP) of the recipient evoked in response to the application of the neural response component of the first stimulus signal, and simultaneously providing to a user an indication of the automatically measured strength of the ECAP and a value of the applied psychophysics signal component.