WO1997038752A2 - Medical implantable ceramic device - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to the packaging of implantable medical devices such as artificial cardiac pacemakers and the like.
- a cardiac pacemaker or implantable pulse generator is an electrical device used to supplant some or all of an abnormal heart's natural pacing function, by delivering appropriately timed electrical stimulation signals designed to cause the myocardium of the heart to contract or "beat".
- modem pacemakers are often programmable with regard to data and functionality prior to, and even after implant.
- Typical pacemakers are enclosed by metal casings such as titanium, which has good body compatibility.
- metal enclosures often cause interference during telemetry.
- the enclosure can be constructed of ceramic material, for example.
- RF radio frequency
- first object of the present invention to provide an implantable medical device which is nearly transparent to radio frequency waves for telemetering purposes. It is a second object of the present invention to provide an implantable medical device wherein its feedthrough substrate provides for a higher density of feedthroughs.
- the present invention provides a packaging arrangement for the outer packaging of an implantable medical device at least including: a ceramic enclosure having an opening for receiving circuitry of the implantable medical device; and a multilayered feedthrough substrate for coupling to the ceramic enclosure at edges around the opening, the substrate having multiple feedthroughs for electrically coupling the circuitry inside the enclosure to the outside of the enclosure.
- the invention may provide a ceramic feedthrough for a metallic or other biocompatible enclosure.
- the invention may provide a feedthrough that is continuous with a ceramic enclosure.
- This invention thus provides: a packaging configuration for the outer packaging of an implantable medical device comprising a ceramic enclosure having an opening for receiving the medical device circuitry and a multi-layered feedthrough substrate for coupling to said ceramic enclosure at edges around the opening, having multiple feedthroughs for electrically coupling circuitry inside said enclosure it's outside.
- This packaging arrangement can have both a first weld ring for coupling to said ceramic enclosure and a second weld ring for coupling to said first weld ring, and to the multi-layered feedthrough substrate.
- packaging arrangement can have a metallic outer layer.
- This invention can be embodied in an implantable package for a medical device having an inside an outside, as a ceramic feedthrough for mounting into said package with an exterior surface and an interior surface such that when assembled the package outside is coextensive with the exterior surface of said feedthrough and the package inside is substantially coextensive with the feedthrough interior surface and whereis the ceramic substrate feedthrough is a co-fired ceramic with metalic conductive interconnect means therein at least one of which interconnect means extends from the exterior surface to said interior surface.
- the packaging is ceramic it can have a metalized electrode grounding ring mounted on the outside of said package electrically connected by a conductive metal pathway through said feedthrough to circuitry inside said package.
- the ceramic multilayer feedthrough component is a ceramic substrate, feedthrough co-fired with metal interconnects therein at least one of which interconnects extends from an exterior surface to an interior surface for use in providing electrical pathways through a metal can or shell having a welding ring for connecting the feedthrough to the can, such that circuitry within said can is electrically connected to the outside of said can.
- An additional improvement to this invention of ceramic feedthrough for providing connection between electrical circuits on an inside of an implantable device to an outside of said implantable device having, on an interior surface of said feedthrough, a first bonding pad area for holding one side of a surface mount capacitor connected to ground, is characterized by having a second bonding area also on said interior surface of said feedthrough, said second area electrically isolated from said first area except through said surface mount capacitor for holding an opposite side of said surface mount capacitor, said second area also being electrically connected through said ceramic feedthrough to the outside of said implantable device.
- This invention can be used to provide for ceramic multilayered feedthrough for connection between the inside and outside of an implantable medical device having encapsulated therewithin a circuit element, from a list of circuit elements: including resistor, capacitor, antenna, coil, diode, sensor, or inductor.
- a ceramic multilayered feedthrough having at least 2 layers, said feedthrough comprising a pattern of metalization within each of the ceramic layers such that when co-fired, said metalization extends from an inner surface to an outer surface of said multilayer feedthrough, and said feedthrough as set forth in claim 11 wherein said ceramic feedthrough form a rigid substrate, this substrate can and is preferred that have an outer surface comprising a linear row of bonding pads.
- the feedthrough can be mounted to said package by a connection to a metal coplanar ring mounted to an outer surface of said feedthrough and of said package.
- said feedthrough can have mounted over it a connector block adapted for connecting at least one lead thereto and wherein a conductive pathway is provided within said connector block to electrically connect at least one of said bonding pads to a conductive pathway in said at least one lead.
- an implantable medical device comprising at least three parts adapted to be hermetically sealed together for implantation into a living body, a connector block part having a lead receptacle formed therein for receiving and electrically connecting to a conductive pathway in a lead body, and having a mounting portion for mounting over a window area of a shell part so as to seal said window from fluids in a body into which said device is to be implanted and wherein an electrical pathway is provided from said electrical connection to said lead to said window within said connector block, a circuitboard part comprising a multilayer ceramic hybrid circuitboard metalization patterned on and through layers therewithin for assembling with electrical components on said circuitboard part and having bonding pads on a surface of said circuitboard part such that at least one of the bonding pads on said circuitboard part is located so as to be exposed to said connector block window for connection to said electrical'pathway in said connector block and at least one shell part for housing said circuitboard part and mounting said window of said connector block thereto.
- Such a device should have shell comprising two mating parts.
- a separate feedthrough part can provide electrical connection between the electrical pathway in said window to a bonding pad within an interior surface of said shell part, instead of direct connection from said lead connecting to said connector block window.
- Figure 1 is an exploded isometric view of a prior art pacemaker with a ceramic enclosure
- FIG. 2 is an exploded isometric view of a pacemaker employing the presentinventive features.
- FIG 3 is an exploded isometric view of the pacemaker in Figure 2, additionally showing a connector block and a pacemaker lead.
- FIG. 4 is an exploded isometric view of a pacemaker housing such as could be manufactured in accord with a preferred embodiment of this invention in co-fired ceramic.
- Figure 5 is sectioned side view of a prior art wire feed through.
- Figure 5a is another section of sideview of another prior art feedthrough.
- Figure 6 is a side view of an embodiment of the invention with a brazing ring on the outside of the metal pacemaker can.
- Figure 7 is a side sectional view of a feedthrough in accord with a preferred embodiment of this invention.
- Figure 8 is a crossection of a multilayered feedthrough design.
- Figure 9 is an isometric view of an exterior of one part of an implantable device metal can having a preferred embodiment feedthrough mounted therethrough.
- Figure 10 is an isometric view of the inside of the can of Figure 9 showing the inside of the mounting area a preferred embodiment feedthrough in accord with this invention.
- Figure 11 is an isometric view showing ribbon and wire connections to the invention feedthroughs.
- Figures 12a and 12b are cutaway side views of different orientations for the inventive feedthrough connection to implanted devices and the circuit elements inside such devices.
- Figure 13 is another cutaway side view of another embodiment of the invention.
- FIG 14 is an enlarged view of a portion of Figure 13.
- DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Figure 1 shows a prior art packaging arrangement/scheme 100 for a pacemaker.
- the arrangement 100 has a ceramic enclosure 102 with a metalized portion 103.
- a hybrid circuit 104 is attached to a feedthrough substrate 106 which is a glass-to-metal feedthrough assembly.
- Feedthroughs 108 metal
- a weld ring 110 is welded on one side to the enclosure 102 (at the metalized portion 103), and on its other side to the glass-tometal feedthrough 106.
- the entire packaging provides an implantable medical device which is hermetically sealed.
- the present-inventive implantable medical device packaging arrangement/scheme 200 is illustrated in Figure 2.
- the ceramic enclosure 202 is composed of biocompatible 99.5 percent aluminum oxide in the preferred embodiment, which has been shown to have good tissue compatibility.
- a metalized portion 203 is formed by sputtering (as is known in the art) a thin film of niobium on the ceramic surface.
- a hybrid circuit 204 is connected to a novel multi-layered feedthrough substrate 206.
- the substrate 206 is composed of several layers of ceramic material with metalplated input/output vias used to electrically connect the various layers.
- the plating metals may be gold and nickel, for example.
- a higher density of feedthroughs 208 are possible over the glass-to-metal feedthrough substrate (element 106 in Figure 1) approaches from the prior art.
- the substrate 206 can be constructed using techniques known in the art, such as is disclosed by Beth A. Hassler in "Fast Turnaround Multilayer Cofired Ceramic Motherboard Fabrication, " Proceedings ofASM's 2nd Electronic Packaging: Materials and Processes Conference (October 1985): 117-121.
- Two weld rings 210 and 212 are chosen to have thermal expansion characteristics sufficiently similar to the ceramic material used to maintain good bonding over a broad temperature range.
- Weld ring 210 is brazed to the metalized portion 203 of the ceramic enclosure 202, and welded to the weld ring 212.
- Weld ring 212 is also brazed to the multi-layered feedthrough 206. The welded and brazed surfaces complete a hermetic seal of the pacemaker.
- Figure 3 shows the pacemaker in Figure 2 with additional components.
- the pacemaker also has a connector block 314 which is fastened to the multi-layered feedthrough substrate 206.
- the connector block 314 electrically connects one or more pacemaker leads 316 to the feedthroughs 208 via lead clamps 318.
- the lead 316 is firmly held in place (in the lead clamps 318) by tightening set screws 320.
- the packaging arrangement described supra is optimal for bipolar pacing.
- the ceramic enclosure 202 may be partially or completely coated with a thin metal layer (using sputtering techniques, for example) to enable unipolar pacing.
- a thin metal layer using sputtering techniques, for example.
- FIG. 4 A heuristic model of a preferred embodiment application for this invention is illustrated in reference to Figure 4 wherein an exploded view of a device 30 having two shell halves 30a and 30b, an exterior surface 32 and interior surface 36 and is used here for illustration purposes only, not to limit the invention's scope.
- a cofired ceramic multilayer board whose edge can be seen at 41 is molded into this shape (30a and 30b).
- a lip 33 formed of one or more of these ceramic layers protrudes above the surface of the edge of the board to provide for better mating with half 30a. By brazing, this lip can hold together halves or pieces of a ceramic device shell.
- lip 33 may be a metal strip for brazing or welding the two parts 30a and 30b together, where one of the two parts is a biocompatible metal such as titanium for example.
- the brazing surface could be flat rather than a raised ring if desired.
- Other joining techniques may be used as circumstances warrant, such as ceramic adhesives to join the two shell parts together.
- the ceramic is formed from sheets of 99.8% Al 2 O 3 which are formed or held in a moldable polymer.
- Such polymeric ceramics can be made in accord with process described in U.S. Patent No. 5,268,415 and 5,438,089, if preferred, or less moldable ceramics may be used for flat structures if desired.
- This concentration of Al 2 O 3 can vary too, especially for those parts that are only used for feedthroughs (rather than for the shell or the hybrid circuit board because such parts will not be exposed to the body fluids into which the device would be implanted), but it is preferred. Where biocompatibility is not an issue for these materials (say if using for only a protected feedthrough) much less than 99.8% Al 2 O 3 may be used.
- Beryllium oxide zero or even low temperature co-fired ceramics may also be used because the feedthrough may be encapsulated and protected from the body.
- the tungsten (also called Wolfram) metal can be thick film screen printed to form traces on the individual sheets of ceramic before firing. This is now done using a metal paste on the surface of stainless steel mesh forms.
- the preferred method for forming vias is to punch holes and extrude a tungsten paste through the vias.
- resin films have been used in other industrial applications for multilayer connections as in US Patent No. 5,478,972 (Mizutani et al.) For most applications discussed here such resin film applications will not work.
- this design provides for at least a plurality of external bonding pads such as bonding pads 34a-e and 35a-e. These may be laid out in a linear pattern which provides for cheap and easy assembly to wire bonding or flat cable matching assembly.
- Each such pad is preferably coated by plating, sputter coating, screening, brazing or welding with a precious metal or other surface preferably to facilitate wirebonding or brazing or welding thereto.
- Each pad connects electrically with another pad in the interior, on the exterior or to an electrical element in the ceramic multilayer package, or an electrical component on the package.
- the surface 31 into which these bonding pads are laid may be any shape desired. Here it is illustrated as flat because that is preferred for our applications.
- an antenna wire 40 is wound around the interior surface 36 of device half 30b.
- Antenna windings in or on or even within shells formed of ceramic multilayer parts are particularly advantageous in that they do not suffer from the severely attenuating RF losses inherent in transmitting through a titanium can as it is now the practice for construction of device shells for implanted devices.
- surface mount and other components 37, 38, respectively may be mounted directly to an interior surface such as surface 36 through areas such as bonding pads 45 and 46 here shown unused in surface 36.
- FIG. 5a the surface of a glass bead 54p is melted into a metal surface 5 la through which a flexible wire 59p is mounted.
- Such connections are in common use for non medical applications. In the medical field devices such as is shown in Fig. 5a are more likely.
- a connection is made like that of Fig. 5a where rather than melting the glass between the metal shells, a ceramic plug 54b is brazed into a metal (titanium) ferrule 55b that is later welded to the metal (usually titanium) shell or can 51b. Production costs for such feedthroughs are substantially greater per feedthrough than for this invention.
- FIG. 6 a piece of cofired ceramic 54 is illustrated in detail. Double arrows a-e indicate where the pieces 52, 53, 51, 54 and 55 get connected.
- Piece 52 is attached to 54 by melting and wetting the braze alloy 53 between them, then piece 52 is welded to shell 51.
- Shell 51 is the (in the preferred embodiment titanium) metal can
- 53 is a gold brazing alloy in the preferred embodiment, although other brazing alloys may be used, for example copper-silver, gold germanium, gold-tin, or active metal braze, etc,.
- the braze alloy may be applied as a solid piece or as a paste.
- Block 55 is a capacitor as will be described later.
- tungsten metal preferably tungsten, although other metals of similar melting point could be used
- the metal portion 59c shaped as shown would be layered into layer 54c, 59b into 54b and 59a into layer 54a.
- the dotted line indicators of the separation of layers 57 and 58 will not be visible.
- the tungsten elements will sinter and by connecting provide a conductive pathway through the cofired ceramic.
- a gold, nickel or other plating is provided to the upper and lower surfaces of the feedthrough to enhance wire bonding, welding, brazing or otherwise electrically connecting thereto.
- FIG 7 a completed assembly is shown.
- capacitors 55a through 55e are shown connected to the bonding pads which are invisible from this point of view, and wires 56 and 56a are shown wire-bonded to the internal connector pads and the external connector pads, respectively.
- Figure 8 illustrates a section through a six layer feedthrough 91.
- An internal element el is shown connected to both output 93a and input bonding pad 1 and connected thereby to wire 92.
- an element such as el could be configured to be a capacitor, a resistor or, an antenna for example. It may need other connections to other points within the circuit going through the multilayered hybrid, but it is not felt necessary to go into further detail on this, for one of ordinary skill in the art would be able to build such elements without additional disclosure.
- the capacitors illustrated variously with reference to numeral 55, are preferably mounted on the inside of the implantable device. By such mounting there are less longterm reliability problems than might otherwise be, for example if the capacitors were to be on the outside of the hermetically sealed enclosure.
- Alternative preferred embodiments include; brazing the ceramic substrate directly into a metal shield eliminating the separate weld ring; and brazing a weld ring directly to the ceramic without a screened tungsten ring on the ceramic by using an active braze alloy.
- defibrillation diodes on a hybrid substrate inside implantable pulse generators used for cardiac defibrillation. Additional advantage may be had by mounting the diodes on the multilayered feedthrough.
- implantable devices can be more easily enhanced with multilayer feedthrough conductors since they can accommodate easily six or more feedthroughs for such devices as would accommodate dual chamber bipolar pacing, external antennae and subcutaneous electrodes of various types.
- Ribbon conductors may also be used to connect to the connector pads on the ceramic feedthroughs, thereby increasing the possibilities for automated assembly.
- flat, linear arrays available through this invention such automated assembly. See Fig. 11 for detail. Referring now to Figures 9 and 10, opposite sides the same shell halves are illustrated as 10 and 10a.
- the exterior surface 11 of the shell 10a is shown in Figure 9 and the interior surface 13 of shell 10 in Figure 10.
- the shell is preferably made of titanium, although other body-safe materials could be used.
- the interior space of the shells would contain hybrid circuitry and components as well as a large battery for powering its circuitry, although other power sources could also be used if desired.
- a bonding pad such as pad 2 shown in Figure 10 connects to an exterior surface bonding pad 15a shown in Figure 9 through the feedthrough layers illustrated here as 4.
- the weld ring 12 is fused to the surface 11 of half 10a.
- a bonding pad such as is illustrated at G could provide for electrical connection from the hybrid "board” in the shell by wire bond or ribbon bond thereto to the outside of the shell through weld ring 12 by a connection through the multilayer feedthrough structure 4.
- the exterior may have a weld plate on the surface thereof to connect to such a "G" type pad which may be for a ground or "shield jumper". There are internal connections between the capacitors grounds pad 1 and pad G and the weld ring.
- these multilayer feedthroughs are ceramic sheet material which, when co-fired, becomes as a single layer.
- each layer of this ceramic material (which shows in the illustration as surface 41) may be screened in a pattern with a metal such as tungsten to provide the electrical connections such as are illustrated in Figures 8 and 6, for example, that would connect between the inside in Figure 10 and the outside in Figure 9.
- a metal such as tungsten
- molybdenum or other refractory metal may be used for inter and intra layer conductive pathways in place of tungsten but these are not preferred.
- gold or other similar metals could be used.
- Figures 12a and 12b and Figs. 13 and 14 illustrate applications of this invention by showing connections of the feedthrough taught by the invention to various implantable ID device embodiments.
- a device 120 has a preferably titanium metallic outer shell "s" containing a hybrid circuit board which could be any kind of hybrid circuit board but in preferred embodiment is of the ceramic multilayered described herein.
- the circuit board is assembled with components and is connected through a ribbon cable re to the ceramic part of the multilayered feedthrough as described in this invention.
- the ceramic By welding a welding ring to the shell the ceramic is firmly affixed to the shell of device 120.
- a wire bond to the outer surface of the ceramic connector provides for the electrical connection from the opening 125 in the connector block cb through the ceramic multilayered feedthrough, the ribbon cable to the components on the hybrid circuit board hy.
- the typical use for such a structure would be a pacemaker having a pacing lead inserted into opening 125 in a plastic connector block cb such that pacing and sensing of cardiac activity could be had through the lead by the circuit components on the hybrid within device 120.
- FIG 12b a different orientation for a device using a ceramic feedthrough ce is shown.
- the device 121 again has a shell s and components co-assembled onto a hybrid circuit board hy.
- the circuits are powered by a battery bat and at least one bonding pad bp allows for connection between the hybrid circuit board and a connector component mounted to the inside of a ceramic multilayered feedthrough.
- a welding ring is brazed or welded to the outside of the shell s within an area contained within a plastic connector block cb, and wires bonded to the outside of the multilayered ceramic feedthrough provide for connection which may be inserted into opening 126.
- Figure 13 details a device which can be constructed with a slightly different application of the inventive concepts described herein.
- Device 130 here applies an internal braze ring 132 to one side of the hybrid hy.
- the hybrid itself is supported by supports su and is also assembled with components co all within a shell s. The difference here is that no separate feedthrough component is used.
- the hybrid circuit and multilayered feedthrough which provides access to the outside world for the components inside the shell are thus part of one assembly.
- the connector block is merely fitted over the housing such that a window area is left in the housing for electrical connection
- a wire bonding pad 135 formed on the exposed surface of the circuit board hy connects a wire w to the lead bore 131 for connecting the lead to the connector block cb of this device 130.
- a ceramic multilayer connector 143 is shown bonded directly to an outer shell 144 and providing connections 145 and 146 therethrough. This illustrates the connection such as 145 for a ground to a shell made of metal 144 to a ground ring 149 which may be within an interior of an implanted device.
- a connection may be made between an exterior bonding pad 148 and an interior bonding pad 147 or if desired a connection may be made between an exterior bonding pad 138 through feedthrough line 139 to a capacitor 132 the other side of which is connected through a shaded area 137 to an interior bonding pad such as bonding pad 147. It will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that the likelihood that only one of the connections will be made between either 139 and 147 or 146 and 147 but probably not both. Numerous uses and device applications may be found for the inventive concepts herein which are only limited in scope by the following claims.
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