Patents by Inventor Jochen Palm
Jochen Palm has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9649488Abstract: A contacting device for electrical connections to flexible electrode lines insertable or implantable into a patient body, includes a line coil with a plurality of coradially bundled coil wires, an inner fixing sleeve for a partial bundle of the coil wires, the fixing sleeve has a through-slit running in the axial direction for the partial bundle of the coil wires, and a winding groove running in the peripheral direction for the partial bundle led through, an outer electrode sleeve sitting on the inner fixing sleeve and electrically contacted with the partial bundle, and a strain-resistant fixing between the fixing sleeve and the partial bundle guided through the through-slit via an application of force on the partial bundle by pressing the fixing sleeve onto the line coil to produce plastic deformation and by looping the led-out partial bundle around the fixing sleeve in the winding groove by a minimum looping angle.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2014Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KGInventors: Detmar Jadwizak, Pierre Weitzig, Jochen Palm, Carsten Fruendt, Gordon Hillebrand
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Patent number: 9468384Abstract: An implantable electrode lead for transmitting electrical impulses to excitable bodily tissue and/or for transmitting electrical signals tapped at bodily tissue to a detection unit. The electrode lead including a distal electrode, a proximal electrode connector, and an electrode supply lead which connects the electrode, or each electrode, to the electrode connector, or each electrode connector, and extends in a lead body, wherein the lead body includes a hinged alignment of hard elements.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2011Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KGInventors: Gernot Kolberg, Jochen Palm, Klaus Bartels
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Publication number: 20160081568Abstract: An implantable electrode lead for transmitting electrical impulses to excitable bodily tissue and/or for transmitting electrical signals tapped at bodily tissue to a detection unit. The electrode lead including a distal electrode, a proximal electrode connector, and an electrode supply lead which connects the electrode, or each electrode, to the electrode connector, or each electrode connector, and extends in a lead body, wherein the lead body includes a hinged alignment of hard elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Inventors: Gernot Kolberg, Jochen Palm, Klaus Bartels
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Patent number: 8923986Abstract: An implantable medical lead for transmitting electrical pulses to excitable bodily tissue and/or signals detected at bodily tissue to a detection and evaluation unit, including a distal electrode or a distal sensor, or actuator; a proximal electrode connector or sensor/actuator connector; and a lead pole which connects the electrode or the sensor or actuator to the electrode connector or sensor/actuator connector and extends in the lead body, wherein the lead pole comprises at least two separate and individually insulated conductors which are electrically interconnected at least at one point which functions as an interchange point, or reversal point, in the lead extension from the proximal electrode or sensor connector to the distal electrode or the distal sensor, and wherein at least one of the separate conductors, in particular close to the reversal point, is interrupted at least once and/or is not connected at one end.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2012Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Biotronik SE & Co. KGInventors: Klaus Bartels, Gernot Kolberg, Jochen Palm
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Publication number: 20140303702Abstract: A contacting device for electrical connections to flexible electrode lines insertable or implantable into a patient body, includes a line coil with a plurality of coradially bundled coil wires, an inner fixing sleeve for a partial bundle of the coil wires, the fixing sleeve has a through-slit running in the axial direction for the partial bundle of the coil wires, and a winding groove running in the peripheral direction for the partial bundle led through, an outer electrode sleeve sitting on the inner fixing sleeve and electrically contacted with the partial bundle, and a strain-resistant fixing between the fixing sleeve and the partial bundle guided through the through-slit via an application of force on the partial bundle by pressing the fixing sleeve onto the line coil to produce plastic deformation and by looping the led-out partial bundle around the fixing sleeve in the winding groove by a minimum looping angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2014Publication date: October 9, 2014Applicant: BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KGInventors: Detmar Jadwizak, Pierre Weitzig, Jochen Palm, Carsten Fruendt, Gordon Hillebrand
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Patent number: 8798772Abstract: An electrode connection for an electrode catheter including an electrode, a line for electrical signals configured as a coil having an electrode end connected to the electrode, and a fixation device for the electrode end of the coil on the electrode, wherein the fixation device includes an inner sleeve, on which the electrode end of the coil sits, and a squeeze ring, which acts upon the electrode end of the coil, establishing an electrical contact with the electrode and mechanical clamping on the inner sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2011Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Biotronik SE & Co. KGInventors: Pierre Weitzig, Jochen Palm, Detmar Jadwizak, Carsten Fruendt
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Patent number: 8768490Abstract: An electrode catheter, in particular for cardiac therapy, includes an elongated, tube-type catheter body, a ring electrode before the distal end of the electrode catheter for delivery and/or measurement of an electrical signal, in particular an electrocardio signal, by way of the outer electrode contact surface thereof, and a supply lead for the electrical connection of the ring electrode. The ring electrode is mounted on the catheter body such that it can be displaced relative thereto in the longitudinal axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2013Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Biotronik SE & Co. KGInventors: Pierre Weitzig, Jochen Palm, Detmar Jadwizak, Carsten Fruendt, Gordon Hillebrand
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Patent number: 8755908Abstract: A conductive coil arrangement, in particular for electrode catheters for cardiac therapy, including a multipolar conductive coil having a plurality of coradially interwoven individual coil wires and a contact zone in which at least one individual coil wire from the conductive coil can be connected to a contact element for electrical contacting. The at least one individual coil wire to be contacted is routed outwardly out of the wire interconnection of the conductive coil with a radial direction component. The remainder of the conductive coil is routed further centrally axially through the contact zone.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2012Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KGInventors: Detmar Jadwizak, Jochen Palm, Pierre Weitzig, Carsten Fruendt, Gordon Hillebrand, Thomas Guenther, Carsten Steglich, Jan Helge Richter
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Patent number: 8504173Abstract: An electrode catheter, in particular for cardiac therapy, includes an elongate, tubular catheter body, an electrode for delivering or measuring an electrical signal, in particular an electrocardiac signal, via its external electrode contact surface, at least one first supply line for the electrical connection of the electrode, at least one second supply line for the electrical connection of a further electrode, a plug terminal connection between the at least one first supply line and the electrode, and an insulated passage of the at least one second supply line through the electrode.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2011Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KGInventors: Pierre Weitzig, Jochen Palm, Detmar Jadwizak, Carsten Fruendt
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Publication number: 20120290056Abstract: An implantable medical lead for transmitting electrical pulses to excitable bodily tissue and/or signals detected at bodily tissue to a detection and evaluation unit, including a distal electrode or a distal sensor, or actuator; a proximal electrode connector or sensor/actuator connector; and a lead pole which connects the electrode or the sensor or actuator to the electrode connector or sensor/actuator connector and extends in the lead body, wherein the lead pole comprises at least two separate and individually insulated conductors which are electrically interconnected at least at one point which functions as an interchange point, or reversal point, in the lead extension from the proximal electrode or sensor connector to the distal electrode or the distal sensor, and wherein at least one of the separate conductors, in particular close to the reversal point, is interrupted at least once and/or is not connected at one end.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2012Publication date: November 15, 2012Applicant: BIOTRONIK SE & CO. KGInventors: Klaus Bartels, Gernot Kolberg, Jochen Palm
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Publication number: 20120184836Abstract: An implantable electrode lead for transmitting electrical impulses to excitable bodily tissue and/or for transmitting electrical signals tapped at bodily tissue to a detection unit. The electrode lead including a distal electrode, a proximal electrode connector, and an electrode supply lead which connects the electrode, or each electrode, to the electrode connector, or each electrode connector, and extends in a lead body, wherein the lead body includes a hinged alignment of hard elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2011Publication date: July 19, 2012Applicant: BIOTRONIK SE & CO. KGInventors: Gernot Kolberg, Jochen Palm, Klaus Bartels
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Publication number: 20120053668Abstract: An electrode catheter, in particular for cardiac therapy, includes an elongate, tubular catheter body, an electrode for delivering or measuring an electrical signal, in particular an electrocardiac signal, via its external electrode contact surface, at least one first supply line for the electrical connection of the electrode, at least one second supply line for the electrical connection of a further electrode, a plug terminal connection between the at least one first supply line and the electrode, and an insulated passage of the at least one second supply line through the electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2011Publication date: March 1, 2012Applicant: BIOTRONIK SE & CO. KGInventors: Pierre Weitzig, Jochen Palm, Detmar Jadwizak, Carsten Fruendt
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Publication number: 20120028512Abstract: An electrode connection for an electrode catheter including an electrode, a line for electrical signals configured as a coil having an electrode end connected to the electrode, and a fixation device for the electrode end of the coil on the electrode, wherein the fixation device includes an inner sleeve, on which the electrode end of the coil sits, and a squeeze ring, which acts upon the electrode end of the coil, establishing an electrical contact with the electrode and mechanical clamping on the inner sleeve.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: BIOTRONIK SE & CO. KGInventors: Pierre Weitzig, Jochen Palm, Detmar Jadwizak, Carsten Fruendt
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Patent number: 7809447Abstract: An implantable medical electrode device, in particular a cardiovascular cardiac pacemaker or defibrillator electrode device, comprises an elongate, tubular electrode body (2), a fixing zone (4) in front of the distal end (3) of the electrode body (2), in which the externally closed peripheral envelope (8) of the electrode body (2) is reversibly expandable into a body lumen (27) for detachable fixing of the electrode device (1), and an expansion apparatus, situated in the fixing zone (4), for controlling the expansion and contraction in the fixing zone (4).Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2007Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Biotronik CRM Patent AGInventors: Eckard Dreier, Erhard Flach, Wolfgang Geistert, Michelle Maxfield, Jochen Palm, Marc Schurr, Jan-Heiner Brinkmann
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Patent number: 7797055Abstract: A device for stimulating a living being having proximal end having an electrical connection to an implantable medical device; having an oblong medial section having a first external diameter, which has at least one first dielectric outer envelope, at least one electrical conductor, at least one electrical stimulation and/or measurement means on the distal end; having distal section having a second outer diameter, which has at least one second dielectric outer envelope and at least one electrical conductor; having distal end having at least one electrical stimulation and/or measurement means; and having a lumen running in the longitudinal direction at least through the proximal end and the medial section. The first external diameter is isodiametric to the second external diameter, the first dielectric outer envelope has the same material properties as the second dielectric outer envelope, and the medial section has a lesser flexibility than the distal section.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2006Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Biotronik CRM Patent AGInventors: Joerg Feldmann, Jochen Palm, Marc Schurr
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Publication number: 20070213798Abstract: An implantable medical electrode device, in particular a cardiovascular cardiac pacemaker or defibrillator electrode device, comprises an elongate, tubular electrode body (2), a fixing zone (4) in front of the distal end (3) of the electrode body (2), in which the externally closed peripheral envelope (8) of the electrode body (2) is reversibly expandable into a body lumen (27) for detachable fixing of the electrode device (1), and expansion means, situated in the fixing zone (4), for controlling the expansion and contraction in the fixing zone (4).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2007Publication date: September 13, 2007Inventors: Eckard Dreier, Erhard Flach, Wolfgang Geistert, Michelle Maxfield, Jochen Palm, Marc Schurr, Jan-Heiner Brinkmann
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Publication number: 20070179578Abstract: A device for stimulating a living being having a proximal end having means for the electrical connection to an implantable medical device; having an oblong medial section having a first external diameter, which has at least one first dielectric outer envelope, at least one electrical conductor, and at least one electrical stimulation and/or measurement means on the distal end; having a distal section having a second outer diameter, which has at least one second dielectric outer envelope and at least one electrical conductor; having a distal end having at least one electrical stimulation and/or measurement means; and having a lumen running in the longitudinal direction at least through the proximal end and the medial section. The first external diameter is isodiametric to the second external diameter, the first dielectric outer envelope has the same material properties as the second dielectric outer envelope, and the medial section has a lesser flexibility than the distal section.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2006Publication date: August 2, 2007Inventors: Joerg Feldmann, Jochen Palm, Marc Schurr
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Patent number: 7127302Abstract: An intracardial electrode lead comprises a distal end, a proximal end and an elongate electrode lead body which includes a helical coil having a lumen and a sheath enclosing the helical coil. The distal end of the electrode lead carries a an electrode. The electrode is electrically connected to a connection at the proximal end of the electrode lead for communication with a medical device. The distal end has a sleeve with a proximal end and a distal end, which is enclosed by the distal end of the helical coil at the sleeve proximal end and contacts a lip seal at its distal end. The lip seal elastically closes a distal opening of the lumen. The sleeve is also electrically connected to the electrode, which has an external surface and projects distally beyond the lip seal.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2004Date of Patent: October 24, 2006Assignee: Biotronik GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Jochen Palm
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Publication number: 20060074471Abstract: An intracardial electrode lead comprises a distal end, a proximal end and an elongate electrode lead body which includes a helical coil having a lumen and a sheath enclosing the helical coil. The distal end of the electrode lead carries a an electrode. The electrode is electrically connected to a connection at the proximal end of the electrode lead for communication with a medical device. The distal end has a sleeve with a proximal end and a distal end, which is enclosed by the distal end of the helical coil at the sleeve proximal end and contacts a lip seal at its distal end. The lip seal elastically closes a distal opening of the lumen. The sleeve is also electrically connected to the electrode, which has an external surface and projects distally beyond the lip seal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2004Publication date: April 6, 2006Inventor: Jochen Palm