Electrical neurostimulator package

Abstract

Described herein is technology relevant to the field of implantable electrical neurostimulators. For example, embodiments include but are not limited to cochlear implants, implantable hearing aids, deep brain stimulators and pain control devices, as well as constituent components of such devices, methods for their manufacture, and methods for their use. For the present purposes, embodiments are described particularly by reference to exemplary cochlear implants, although that should not be regarded as necessarily limiting on the underlying concepts.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates generally to the field of medical devices, where embodiments relate to the field of implantable electrical neurostimulators. Example embodiments include, but are not limited to, cochlear implants, implantable hearing aids, deep brain stimulators, and pain management devices, as well as components of these devices, methods of their manufacture, and methods of their use. Background technique [0002] The following background discussion is intended to put the invention in its proper context and to allow its unique features and advantages to be more fully understood. However, any discussion of background art throughout this specification should not be taken as an explicit or implied admission that such prior art is well known in the art or forms part of the common general knowledge in the field. [0003] In neurostimulator design (eg, in the case of cochlear implants), reliability requirements push the limits of manufacturing...

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[0006] The design and manufacturing techniques are particularly complex and challenging in order to guarantee the reliability required for such devices which are sometimes designed to operate during their useful life, and to provide a device of very small size with an ergonomic shape

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