In one aspect, the present disclosure is directed to an implantable medical device including a housing having a generally planar portion, and a piezoelectric transducer disposed within the housing, wherein at least a portion of the piezoelectric transducer...

A system for suppling energy to a medical implant is provided. The system comprising an electrically powered medical device adapted to be implanted in a patient, the medical device comprising an internal energy receiver adapted to power the medical device ...

A mobile wireless power system capable of transmitting power through the skin to energize an implanted medical device (19) without percutaneous wires and without precise positioning includes an external mobile wireless power source (10) and an implantable ...

The present invention relates to charging algorithms implementable in an external charger for controlling the charging of both an external battery in the external charger and an implant battery in an implantable medical device. Because full-powered simulta...

A system and method of controlling the charging of the battery of a medical device using a remote inductive charger, with the method utilizing both a relatively fast closed-loop charging control based on a proxy for a target power transmission value in con...

The method involves determining a mutual induction of a winding (11) to another winding (12). An adjustable capacitor (21) is adjusted based on an operating parameter and the determined induction, where the parameter contains information about a load (40) ...

According a charging system of this invention, an AC required for charging of an electric double layer capacitor of a storage device in the body may be transmitted from a feeding device outside the body through power receiving and power transmitting coils....