Patents by Inventor Peter Lampacher
Peter Lampacher 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: 9615181Abstract: An arrangement is described for a hearing implant system. An implantable housing has an outer surface configured to lie under and parallel to the skin of the implanted patient. An implant magnet arrangement is located within the implantable housing and has multiple local magnetic sections with different independent local magnetic fields that are combined together to form a net magnetic field with at least two-fold symmetry and zero net magnetic dipole moment, wherein the magnetic fields are oriented parallel to the outer surface of the implant housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2013Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: MED-EL Elektromedizinische Geraete GmbHInventors: Markus Nagl, Thomas Lechleitner, Peter Lampacher, Wolfgang Amrhein, Gunther Weidenholzer
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Patent number: 9264825Abstract: An implantable hearing prosthesis for a recipient patient is described. An implantable signal transducer includes one or more electromagnetic drive coils for receiving an electrical stimulation signal and a cylindrical transducer magnet arrangement including an inner disk magnet having a first magnetic field direction, and an outer annular magnet surrounding the inner rod magnet and having a second magnetic field direction opposite to the first magnetic field direction. Current flow through the one or more electromagnetic drive coils from the electrical stimulation signal creates a coil magnetic field that interacts with the magnetic fields of the transducer magnet arrangement to create vibration in the transducer magnet which is developed by the signal transducer as a mechanical stimulation signal for audio perception by the patient.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2012Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Vibrant Med-El Hearing Technology GmbHInventors: Geoffrey Ball, Peter Lampacher, Wolfgang Amrhein, Gunther Weidenholzer
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Patent number: 9113277Abstract: An implantable hearing prosthesis for a recipient patient is described. An implantable receiving coil transcutaneously receives an externally generated communication data signal. An implantable signal processor is in communication with the receiving coil and converts the communication data signal into an electrical stimulation signal. An implantable transducer housing is fixedly attachable to skull bone of the patient. An implantable drive transducer is in communication with the signal processor and removably engageable with the transducer housing for applying to the transducer housing a mechanical vibration signal based on the electrical stimulation signal for audio perception by the patient.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2009Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: Vibrant Med-El Hearing Technology GmbHInventors: Geoffrey Ball, Peter Lampacher, Wolfgang Amrhein, Gunther Weidenholzer
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Publication number: 20140012071Abstract: An arrangement is described for a hearing implant system. An implantable housing has an outer surface configured to lie under and parallel to the skin of the implanted patient. An implant magnet arrangement is located within the implantable housing and has multiple local magnetic sections with different independent local magnetic fields that are combined together to form a net magnetic field with at least two-fold symmetry and zero net magnetic dipole moment, wherein the magnetic fields are oriented parallel to the outer surface of the implant housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2013Publication date: January 9, 2014Inventors: Markus Nagl, Thomas Lechleitner, Peter Lampacher, Wolfgang Amrhein, Gunther Weidenholzer
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Patent number: 8568291Abstract: A method is described for providing sound perception in a hearing impaired patient. An externally generated electrical audio stimulation signal is received in a receiver unit located under the skin of an implanted patient. The electrical audio stimulation signal is delivered to an implanted bone conduction transducer having a planar bone engagement surface mounted to a temporal bone surface of the patient. The electrical audio stimulation signal is transformed into a corresponding mechanical stimulation signal coupled to the temporal bone by the bone engagement surface for delivery by bone conduction through the temporal bone to the cochlear fluid of the patient for perception as sound.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2012Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Vibrant Med-El Hearing Technology GmbHInventors: Geoffrey R. Ball, Peter Lampacher
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Publication number: 20130046131Abstract: An implantable hearing prosthesis for a recipient patient is described. An implantable signal transducer includes one or more electromagnetic drive coils for receiving an electrical stimulation signal and a cylindrical transducer magnet arrangement including an inner disk magnet having a first magnetic field direction, and an outer annular magnet surrounding the inner rod magnet and having a second magnetic field direction opposite to the first magnetic field direction. Current flow through the one or more electromagnetic drive coils from the electrical stimulation signal creates a coil magnetic field that interacts with the magnetic fields of the transducer magnet arrangement to create vibration in the transducer magnet which is developed by the signal transducer as a mechanical stimulation signal for audio perception by the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2012Publication date: February 21, 2013Applicant: VIBRANT MED-EL HEARING TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Geoffrey Ball, Peter Lampacher, Wolfgang Amrhein, Gunther Weidenholzer
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Publication number: 20120271097Abstract: A method is described for providing sound perception in a hearing impaired patient. An externally generated electrical audio stimulation signal is received in a receiver unit located under the skin of an implanted patient. The electrical audio stimulation signal is delivered to an implanted bone conduction transducer having a planar bone engagement surface mounted to a temporal bone surface of the patient. The electrical audio stimulation signal is transformed into a corresponding mechanical stimulation signal coupled to the temporal bone by the bone engagement surface for delivery by bone conduction through the temporal bone to the cochlear fluid of the patient for perception as sound.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2012Publication date: October 25, 2012Applicant: VIBRANT MED-EL HEARING TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Geoffrey R. Ball, Peter Lampacher
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Publication number: 20120238799Abstract: A magnet arrangement is described for use in implantable devices. An implantable housing contains a portion of an implantable electronic system. An implant magnet arrangement within the housing has adjacent magnetic sections that lie substantially in a common plane and include an inner center disc having an inner magnetic orientation in an inner magnetic direction, and an outer radial ring having an outer magnetic orientation in an outer magnetic direction opposite to the inner magnetic direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2012Publication date: September 20, 2012Applicant: Vibrant Med-EI Hearing Technology GmbHInventors: Geoffrey R. BALL, Peter LAMPACHER, Bernhard JAMNIG, Martin ZIMMERLING, Gunther WEIDENHOLZER, Markus NAGL, Wolfgang AMRHEIN
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Patent number: 8246532Abstract: The present invention relates to implantable medical devices for improving sound perception by subjects with conductive or mixed conductive/sensorineural hearing loss. In particular, the present invention provides methods and devices for vibrating the skull of a hearing impaired subject.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2006Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Vibrant MED-EL Hearing Technology GmbHInventors: Geoffrey R. Ball, Peter Lampacher
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Publication number: 20120172659Abstract: A magnet arrangement is described for use with hearing implant systems. An external device for use with an implant system has an external device housing that contains external elements of a hearing implant system. A cylindrical external magnet arrangement within the housing has multiple magnetic sections lying in a common plane, including an inner center disc having an inner magnetic orientation in an inner magnetic direction, and an outer radial ring having an outer magnetic orientation in an outer magnetic direction opposite to the inner magnetic direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2012Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: Vibrant Med-El Hearing Technology GmbHInventors: Geoffrey R. Ball, Peter Lampacher, Bernhard Jamnig, Martin Zimmerling, Gunther Weidenholzer, Markus Nagl, Wolfgang Amrhein
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Publication number: 20110022120Abstract: A magnet arrangement is described for use in implantable devices. An implantable housing contains a portion of an implantable electronic system. A cylindrical implant magnet arrangement within the housing includes multiple adjacent magnetic sections wherein at least two of the magnetic sections have opposing magnetic orientations in opposite magnetic directions. There may also be a similar external housing having a corresponding magnet arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2010Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: VIBRANT MED-EL HEARING TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Geoffrey R. Ball, Peter Lampacher, Bernhard Jamnig, Martin Zimmerling, Gunrher Weidenholzer, Markus Nagl, Wolfgang Amrhein
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Publication number: 20100145135Abstract: An implantable hearing prosthesis for a recipient patient is described. An implantable receiving coil transcutaneously receives an externally generated communication data signal. An implantable signal processor is in communication with the receiving coil and converts the communication data signal into an electrical stimulation signal. An implantable transducer housing is fixedly attachable to skull bone of the patient. An implantable drive transducer is in communication with the signal processor and removably engageable with the transducer housing for applying to the transducer housing a mechanical vibration signal based on the electrical stimulation signal for audio perception by the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2009Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: VIBRANT MED-EL HEARING TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Geoffrey Ball, Peter Lampacher, Wolfgang Amrhein, Gunther Weidenholzer
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Publication number: 20080255406Abstract: Systems and methods for improving sound perception in a subject equipped with an implantable vibratory unit comprising a transducer and a transduction medium in which the transducer is disposed within or against the transduction medium. The transducer is configured to impart vibrations to a vibratory structure of a subject's ear through the transduction medium in response to an electrical signal corresponding to sound. In certain embodiments, the transduction medium directly contacts the vibratory structure of the subject's ear, whereas the transducer does not.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2008Publication date: October 16, 2008Applicant: VIBRANT MED-EL HEARING TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Geoffrey R. Ball, Peter Lampacher
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Publication number: 20070191673Abstract: The present invention relates to implantable medical devices for improving sound perception by subjects with conductive or mixed conductive/sensorineural hearing loss. In particular, the present invention provides methods and devices for vibrating the skull of a hearing impaired subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2006Publication date: August 16, 2007Applicant: Vibrant Med-El Hearing Technology GmbHInventors: Geoffrey Ball, Peter Lampacher