Human Skull Implantable Wireless Power Transfer System
Résumé
The growing demand for complex disease treatment techniques requires the development of accurate and robust engineering applications. In recent years biomedical implants have gained considerable attention for treatments of neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and refractory epilepsy through the implantation of control and monitoring devices. These devices can be wirelessly successfully powered by using magnetic couplings-based technology. The challenges of this technology are to provide enough energy to power the implanted device, reduce the device dimensions and optimize its efficiency. Therefore, this work presents a new geometrical shape for a wireless power transmission system, which is composed of a wearable transmitting coil that can be built on a hat or cap and is able to produce an approximately uniform magnetic field in the skull region for simultaneous feeding of more than one implant.