High-energy electrolytic capacitors for implantable defibrillators
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IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
A61N-001/39
H01G-009/02
출원번호
US-0424988
(2003-04-28)
발명자
/ 주소
O'Phelan,Michael J.
Christenson,Luke J.
Poplett,James M.
Tong,Robert R.
출원인 / 주소
Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
대리인 / 주소
Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner &
인용정보
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9인용 특허 :
90
초록▼
Implantable defibrillators are implanted into the chests of patients prone to suffering ventricular fibrillation, a potentially fatal heart condition. A critical component in these devices is an aluminum electrolytic capacitors, which stores and delivers one or more life-saving bursts of electric ch
Implantable defibrillators are implanted into the chests of patients prone to suffering ventricular fibrillation, a potentially fatal heart condition. A critical component in these devices is an aluminum electrolytic capacitors, which stores and delivers one or more life-saving bursts of electric charge to a fibrillating heart. To reduce the size of these devices, capacitor manufacturers have developed special aluminum foils, for example core-etched and tunnel-etched aluminum foils. Unfortunately, core-etched foils don't work well in multiple-anode capacitors, and tunnel-etched foils are quite brittle and tend to break when making some common types of capacitors. Accordingly, the inventors devised a new foil structure having one or more perforations and one or more cavities with a depth less than the foil thickness. In an exemplary embodiment, each perforation and cavity has a cross-sectional area, with the perforations having a larger, for example, 2 to 100 times larger, average cross-sectional area than the cavities. Other embodiments of the invention include foil assemblies, capacitors, and implantable defibrillators that benefit from properties of the new foil structure.
대표청구항▼
What is claimed is: 1. A cardiac rhythm management system comprising: a therapy circuit for delivering therapy to a heart of a patient, wherein the therapy circuit includes one or more capacitors which include a foil that comprises: first and second opposing surfaces which define a foil thickness,
What is claimed is: 1. A cardiac rhythm management system comprising: a therapy circuit for delivering therapy to a heart of a patient, wherein the therapy circuit includes one or more capacitors which include a foil that comprises: first and second opposing surfaces which define a foil thickness, with at least one of the opposing surfaces having a plurality of cavities each having a maximum depth less than the foil thickness, wherein the average depth of the cavities is about one-third or one-fourth of the foil thickness; and a plurality of perforations through the foil. 2. A cardiac rhythm management system comprising: a therapy circuit for delivering therapy to a heart of a patient, wherein the therapy circuit includes one or more capacitors, with each capacitor including at least one foil that comprises: first and second opposing sides each having one or more of cavities having an average depth less than one-half the foil thickness; and three or more perforations through the at least one foil, wherein the average cross-sectional area of the perforations is about 2 to 100 times larger than the average cross-sectional area of the cavities, wherein the at least one foil comprises at least one of aluminum, tantalum, hafnium, niobium, titanium, and zirconium, and wherein each of the first and second opposing sides each having an insulative coating. 3. The system of claim 2 wherein each perforation has a generally circular cross-section. 4. The system of claim 2 wherein at least a portion of the one foil is rolled. 5. The system of claim 2 wherein the one foil is part of an anode structure. 6. The system of claim 2 wherein the average depth of the cavities is about one-third or one-fourth of the foil thickness. 7. A cardiac rhythm management system comprising: one or more leads; a monitoring circuit for monitoring heart activity of a patient through one or more of the leads; and a therapy circuit coupled to the monitoring circuit, wherein the therapy circuit includes one or more capacitors which include a foil that comprises: first and second opposing surfaces which define a foil thickness, with at least the first opposing surface having a plurality of cavities each having a maximum depth less than the foil thickness and the cavities having an average cross-sectional area; and a plurality of at least three perforations through the foil, with the perforations having an associated average maximum cross-sectional area that is greater than the average cross-sectional area of the cavities, and the perforations having a total cross-sectional area that is less than 20 percent of the foil surface area. 8. The system of claim 7, wherein the perforations have an associated average maximum cross-sectional area between 500 square-microns and 32 square-millimeters, inclusive. 9. The system of claim 7, wherein the cavities have an average depth less than one-half the foil thickness. 10. The system of claim 7, wherein the average depth of the cavities is about one-third or one-fourth of the foil thickness. 11. The system of claim 7, wherein the perforations are randomly distributed. 12. The system of claim 7, wherein the average cross-sectional area of the perforations is about 2 to 100 times larger than the average cross-sectional area of the cavities. 13. The system of claim 7, wherein each perforations has a generally circular cross-section. 14. The system of claim 7, wherein the foil comprises titanium. 15. The system of claim 7, wherein one or more of the cavities define a perimeter which circumscribes one or more of the perforations and wherein the foil is at least partly rolled. 16. A cardiac rhythm management system comprising: one or more leads for sensing electrical signals of a patient; a monitoring circuit coupled to the one or more leads for monitoring heart activity of the patient; and a therapy circuit coupled to the one or more of the leads, wherein the therapy circuit includes one or more capacitors which include two or more foils stacked according to one or more of the following foil sequences: PP, PPP, PCP, PPCPP, PTP, PTPT, TPT, PTCTP, wherein each C denotes a core-etched foil; each T denotes a tunnel-etched foil; and each P denotes a foil having a foil thickness and comprising a plurality of perforations and a plurality of cavities, with each cavity having a depth less than the foil thickness. 17. The system of claim 16: wherein each P foil has first and second opposing sides, with one or more of the cavities on the first side and one or more of the cavities on the second side and wherein the average depth of the cavities is less than one-half the foil thickness; or wherein the perforations have an average cross-sectional area larger than an average cross-sectional area of the cavities; or wherein the average cross-sectional area of the perforations is about 2 to 100 times larger than an average maximum cross-sectional area of the cavities; or wherein one or more the foils comprises titanium. 18. A cardiac rhythm management system comprising: one or more leads; a monitoring circuit for monitoring heart activity of a patient through one or more of the leads; and a therapy circuit coupled to the one or more leads, wherein the therapy circuit includes one or more capacitors which include: at least one perforated-core-etched foil adjacent at least one non-perforated core-etched foil; or at least one perforated-core-etched foil, at least one non-perforated core-etched foil and at least one tunnel-etched foil. 19. A cardiac rhythm management system comprising: one or more leads; a monitoring circuit for monitoring heart activity of the patient through one or more of the leads; and a therapy circuit coupled to the monitoring circuit, wherein the therapy circuit includes one or more capacitors which include: at least one perforated-core-etched foil; or at least one perforated-core-etched foil adjacent at least one core-etched foil; or at least one perforated-core-etched foil, at least one core-etched foil, and at least one tunnel-etched foil; wherein each perforated core-etched foil comprises: first and second opposing surfaces which define a foil thickness, with the first opposing surface having one or more cavities each having a maximum depth less than the foil thickness and the second opposing surface having one or more cavities each having a maximum depth less than the foil thickness; and three or more perforations through the foil. 20. The capacitor of claim 19, wherein the cavities of the first surface have a first average depth and the cavities of the second surface have a second average depth, with the first and second average depths being less than one-half the foil thickness. 21. A cardiac rhythm management system comprising: one or more leads; a monitoring circuit for monitoring heart activity of the patient through one or more of the leads; and a therapy circuit coupled to the monitoring circuit, wherein the therapy circuit includes one or more capacitors which include a capacitor comprising one or more tunnel-etched foils between two or more perforated-core-etched foils. 22. The cardiac rhythm management system of claim 21, wherein each perforated core-etched foil comprises: first and second opposing surfaces which define a foil thickness, with the first opposing surface having one or more cavities each having a maximum depth less than the foil thickness and the second opposing surface having one or more cavities each having a maximum depth less than the foil thickness; and three or more perforations through the foil.
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