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6466688 |
Apparatus and method for detecting and identifying organisms, especially pathogens, using the aura signature of the organism
An aura detection system for detecting pathogens through the detection of a specific aura signature of the pathogen or a creature carrying the pathogen. The system includes a transmitter for...
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6466911 |
Electrotactile vocoder using handset with stimulating electrodes
An electrotactile vocoder includes a handset ( 3 ) carrying stimulating electrodes ( 9 ) positioned adjacent openings ( 8 ) in the handset and electrically contacting the fingers when the handset...
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6394947 |
Implantable hearing aid with tinnitus masker or noiser
Partially or fully implantable hearing aid for rehabilitation of an inner ear hearing disorder, with a microphone ( 10 ) which delivers an audio signal, an electronic signal processing and...
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6374143 |
Modiolar hugging electrode array
A multi-bipolar configured electrode array and means to uniquely position said array within the scalae of the human cochlea is described. Said array is inserted into the scala tympani, scala...
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6289246 |
High compliance output stage for a tissue stimulator
The output stage of a tissue stimulating apparatus, for example a cochlear implant prosthesis, operating at a low supply voltage (35) incorporates a multiplier circuit (54, 62, 63, 64) for ensuring...
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6235056 |
Implantable hearing assistance device with remote electronics unit
An implantable hearing assistance system has a subcranially implantable electronics unit that is remotely situated from the ear, such as implanted in the pectoral region, rather than in the mastoid...
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6214046 |
Method of implanting an implantable hearing assistance device with remote electronics unit
An implantable hearing assistance system method has a subcranially implantable electronics unit that is remotely situated from the ear, such as implanted in the pectoral region, rather than in the...
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6106551 |
Communication method for implantable medical device
A medical assembly, such as an artificial heart assembly, adapted to be implanted within a living subject is composed of an implantable data communications interface adapted to receive an encoded...
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6002966 |
Multichannel cochlear prosthesis with flexible control of stimulus waveforms
A method and system provides a wide range of temporospatial patterns of electrical stimulation waveforms to be readily specified for respective channels of a multichannel cochlear prosthesis. The...
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5983139 |
Cochlear implant system
A digital finite impulse response bandpass filter is described. Analog to digital conversion (A/D) of an input signal uses a Sigma-Delta (Σ-Δ) converter, resulting in a digital sequence...
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5957958 |
Implantable electrode arrays
An implant stimulator device uses tantalum and tantalum pentoxide as a system for the conveyance of electrical stimulation pulses from stimulus-forming circuitry contained within an hermetic...
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5876425 |
Power control loop for implantable tissue stimulator
A power control loop is established between an external control device and an implantable device so that only the amount of power needed by the implant device to sustain its present operating...
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5833714 |
Cochlear electrode array employing tantalum metal
An implant device uses tantalum and tantalum pentoxide as a complete system for the conveyance of electrical stimulation pulses from stimulus-forming circuitry contained within an hermetic...
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5814095 |
Implantable microphone and implantable hearing aids utilizing same
Implantable microphone for implantable hearing aids, which is used for excitation of hearing, such as cochlear implants or hearing aids with mechanical stimulation of the middle or inner ear, with...
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5776179 |
Method for evaluating inner ear hearing loss
A method for evaluating the electromotility of hair cells within the cochlea of a mammalian ear by providing an electrode in proximate relation with the round window and applying electricity...
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5749912 |
Low-cost, four-channel cochlear implant
A low-cost, four-channel cochlear stimulation system utilizes a completely passive, implantable receiver/electrode array that is inductively coupled to an external wearable processor. The...
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5697975 |
Human cerebral cortex neural prosthetic for tinnitus
A neural prosthetic device for reducing or eliminating the effects of tinnitus is inserted into a tinnitus patient's primary auditory cortex (or thalamus). The prosthetic device includes a...
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5609616 |
Physician's testing system and method for testing implantable cochlear stimulator
A physician's tester provides for physician monitoring and control of an implantable human tissue stimulator system, such as an implantable cochlear stimulator (ICS) system. During normal...
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5571148 |
Implantable multichannel stimulator
A multichannel stimulation system includes a plurality of implantable microminiature stimulators (microstimulators), each being connected to a respective implanted electrode or electrode array....
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5569307 |
Implantable cochlear stimulator having backtelemetry handshake signal
An external wearable processor (WP) of a cochlear stimulating system transmits a data signal to an implanted cochlear stimulator (ICS). The ICS is controlled through the data signal so that...
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5549658 |
Four-Channel cochlear system with a passive, non-hermetically sealed implant
A low-cost, multichannel cochlear stimulation system utilizes a passive, non-hermetically sealed, implantable receiver/electrode array and an external wearable processor. At one end of the...
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5531774 |
Multichannel implantable cochlear stimulator having programmable bipolar, monopolar or multipolar electrode configurations
An implantable cochlear stimulator (ICS) has eight output stages (212), each having a programmable current source (212B) connected to a pair of electrodes, designated "A" and "B", through...
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5522865 |
Voltage/current control system for a human tissue stimulator
A tissue stimulating system includes an external transmitter for transmitting a data signal to an implanted stimulator. The implanted stimulator includes a processor for generating stimulation...
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5215085 |
Method and apparatus for electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve
A process and device for electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve by a combined pulse and speech resembling analog signal both of which are processed from audio input signals, transmitted to...
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5159703 |
Silent subliminal presentation system
A silent communications system in which nonaural carriers, in the very low or very high audio frequency range or in the adjacent ultrasonic frequency spectrum, are amplitude or frequency modulated...
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5003608 |
Apparatus and method for manipulating devices in orifices
The present invention comprises an apparatus and method for inserting into, orienting within, and withdrawing from an ear a hearing aid, earphone, transducer, microprocessor, radio, sensor, or...
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4982432 |
Electrotactile vocoder
An electrotactile vocoder for persons having impaired hearing in which electrical stimulation is applied to a multiplicity of electrodes in contact with either side of each finger so as to...
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4923469 |
Prothesis and electrode for the electrical stimulation of the inner ear, and method for producing said electrode
A prosthesis permits both an acoustic stimulation and an electrical stimulation of the inner ear and include an interposition element, one end of which is provided with a device for attachment to a...
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4905285 |
Analysis arrangement based on a model of human neural responses
A sensory type pattern such as a speech or other sound pattern is analyzed to obtain the spectral distribution of the neural response thereto. A plurality of logarithmically related neural response...
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4877027 |
Hearing system
Sound is induced in the head of a person by radiating the head with microwaves in the range of 100 megahertz to 10,000 megahertz that are modulated with a particular waveform. The waveform consists...
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4858612 |
Hearing device
A method and apparatus for simulation of hearing in mammals by introduction of a plurality of microwaves into the region of the auditory cortex is shown and described. A microphone is used to...
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4856525 |
Multichannel electrical stimulator with improved channel isolation
An electrical stimulator having a plurality of channels adapted to stimulate bodily tissue with an electrical current on each of the plurality of channels. First and second electrodes are coupled...
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4823795 |
Signal processor for and an auditory prosthesis having spectral to temporal transformation
An auditory prosthesis using and a signal processor for an electrical input signal designed to represent sound to a person. A plurality of filters each passing a different center frequency is...
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4817609 |
Method for treating hearing deficiencies
A method and apparatus are described for treating hearing impairment in a human. The external auditory canal is substantially enlarged surgically in region proximate the ear drum. An electronic...
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4813417 |
Signal processor for and an auditory prosthesis utilizing channel dominance
A multichannel signal processor for and an auditory prostheses utilizing such a signal processor having a plurality of filters each passing a different center frequency providing a set of filtered...
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4813419 |
Method and apparatus for communicating information representative of sound waves to the deaf
A method and apparatus of communicating audio signals to the deaf is described. In accordance with the method described, electrical impulses characteristic of sound waves are applied either...
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4667683 |
Audiometer
Audiometer apparatus comprises an electrostatic transducer having insulated electrodes for application to the skin on the head of a patient and driven by an ultrasonic frequency carrier signal...
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4536844 |
Method and apparatus for simulating aural response information
Speech and like signals are analyzed based on a model of the function of the human hearing system. The model of the inner ear is expressed as signal processing operations which map acoustic signals...
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4390756 |
Method and apparatus for generating electrocutaneous stimulation patterns for the transmission of acoustic information
In an exemplary embodiment, the point of departure is that of a substitute signal system for deaf individuals which codes acoustical signals, in particular speech sound, into electrocutaneous...
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4220830 |
Hearing aid with modulated suppressed carrier signal
Disclosed hearing aids have circuits that produce a suppressed-carrier modulated signal and they include an electrode to be applied to the head of the user for coupling the suppressed-carrier...
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4052572 |
Hearing aid
"Hearing" without involving the ear is realized by electrical conduction of the sound-representing signals on a carrier optimally in the frequency range of 15-60 kHz, from an electrode held against...
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3766331 |
HEARING AID FOR PRODUCING SENSATIONS IN THE BRAIN
A pulsed oscillator or transmitter supplies energy to a pair of insulated electrodes mounted on a person's neck. The transmitter produces pulses of intensity greater than a predetermined threshold...
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3629521 |
HEARING SYSTEMS
The present invention relates to the stimulation of the sensation of hearing in persons of impaired hearing abilities or in certain cases in persons totally deaf utilizing RF energy. More...
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3586791 |
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HEARING BY BIODETECTION AND BIOTRANSDUCTION OF RADIOFREQUENCY ENERGY
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus utilizing R-F carriers of predetermined frequencies to stimulate the sensation of hearing in human subjects and, more particularly, to a...
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3497637 |
TRANSDUCER FOR STIMULATION OF FACIAL NERVE SYSTEM WITH R-F ENERGY
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3393279 |
Nervous system excitation device
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3267931 |
Electrically stimulated hearing with signal feedback
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3170993 |
Means for aiding hearing by electrical stimulation of the facial nerve system
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3156787 |
Solid state hearing system
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2995633 |
Means for aiding hearing
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