US 12,263,337 B2
System for electrical stimulation of nerves
Torsten Fjeldgaard Hvalsøe, Aalborg (DK); Dianna Marsk Knudsen, Løgstør (DK); and Jesper Nielsen, Klarup (DK)
Assigned to INNOCON MEDICAL APS, Aalborg (DK)
Appl. No. 17/431,703
Filed by INNOCON MEDICAL APS, Aalborg (DK)
PCT Filed Feb. 17, 2020, PCT No. PCT/DK2020/050040
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 17, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/164678, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 20, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. PA201900211 (DK), filed on Feb. 17, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0118245 A1, Apr. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. A61N 1/05 (2006.01); A61N 1/04 (2006.01)
CPC A61N 1/0521 (2013.01) [A61N 1/0456 (2013.01); A61N 1/0496 (2013.01); A61N 1/0502 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for stimulation of a nerve of a living being, including a stimulation media fixation unit including a body member, a hydrogel-based electrode member, and at least one end termination member, the stimulation media fixation unit configured to be arranged in a formed channel in and out of the skin of the being, and adapted for providing fixation of the hydrogel-based electrode member configured to be placed in close proximity of a portion of the nerve of the living being, and a pulse generator configured to stimulate the nerve of the living being by providing a sequence of electrical pulses to the hydrogel-based electrode, for stimulation of the nerve,
where the stimulation media fixation unit has a first end and a second end, where the first end of the stimulation media fixation unit is configured to protrude out of a first end of the formed channel, and the second end of the stimulation media fixation unit is configured to protrude out of a second end of the formed channel, and where the body member of the stimulation media fixation unit forms the structure of the stimulation media fixation unit, the stimulation media fixation unit body member constituting a fixation member onto which the hydrogel-based electrode is arranged or included, and where the at least one end termination member is configured to be repeatedly non-destructively dismantled from and reassembled to the stimulation media fixation unit body member and is configured to provide a stop for movement of the stimulation media fixation unit body in at least one direction within the formed channel, where the at least one end termination is positioned outside the first and/or second end of the formed channel, providing a mechanically interlocking mechanism by means of geometry of the end termination for the stimulation media fixation unit when the electrode fixation unit is arranged in the formed channel.