US 12,434,048 B2
Implantable stimulating assembly
Nicholas Charles Pawsey, Macquarie University (AU)
Assigned to Cochlear Limited, Macquarie University (AU)
Filed by Cochlear Limited, Macquarie University (AU)
Filed on Oct. 28, 2016, as Appl. No. 15/337,326.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/248,637, filed on Oct. 30, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2017/0120044 A1, May 4, 2017
Int. Cl. A61N 1/05 (2006.01)
CPC A61N 1/0541 (2013.01) 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrode array, comprising:
a plurality of electrodes; and
an electrode carrier carrying the plurality of electrodes, wherein
the electrode carrier includes a viscoelastic material, and
the electrode carrier is configured to transform from a first geometry having a first average radius of curvature to a second geometry having a second average radius of curvature smaller than the first average radius of curvature in the absence of at least four of the following: (i) external force relief inducing and establishing the transformation; (ii) external pressure relief inducing and establishing the transformation; (iii) reaction force inducing and establishing the transformation; (iv) mass transfer inducing and establishing the transformation; (v) net energy transfer inducing and establishing the transformation.