US 11,904,167 B2
Auxiliary device connection
Werner Meskens, Opwijk (BE)
Assigned to Cochlear Limited, Macquarie University (AU)
Appl. No. 17/413,698
Filed by Cochlear Limited, Macquarie University (AU)
PCT Filed Mar. 25, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/000211
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 14, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/194050, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 1, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/824,433, filed on Mar. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0016427 A1, Jan. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. A61N 1/36 (2006.01); A61N 1/378 (2006.01); A61N 1/372 (2006.01); H04R 25/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61N 1/36038 (2017.08) [A61N 1/3787 (2013.01); A61N 1/37211 (2013.01); H04R 25/70 (2013.01); H04R 2225/31 (2013.01); H04R 2225/67 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
while an implanted stimulator device is coupled with an external processor device:
preventing receiving of an auxiliary device signal over an implanted cable connecting the implanted stimulator device with an implanted auxiliary device; and
permitting charging of an auxiliary device battery of the implanted auxiliary device over the implanted cable; and
while the implanted stimulator device is not coupled with the external processor device:
preventing charging of the auxiliary device battery of the implanted auxiliary device over the implanted cable; and
permitting receiving of the auxiliary device signal at the implanted stimulator device over the implanted cable.