• DocumentCode
    2226781
  • Title

    Consideration of EDLC as emergency power source for totally implantable medical device

  • Author

    Watanabe, H. ; Jinguji, N. ; Matsuki, H. ; Hoshimiya, N. ; Nitta, S.

  • Author_Institution
    Graduate Sch. of Eng., Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    15-18 Feb 1998
  • Firstpage
    51
  • Abstract
    The authors propose to use an Electric Double Layer Capacitor (EDLC) as an emergency power source for totally implantable medical devices. So far chemical batteries, such as Ni-MH and Li-ion batteries, have been considered as power sources. EDLC needs no control circuit to protect against excess charge and discharge. Furthermore, EDLC can be cycled many times. In these points EDLC is superior to batteries
  • Keywords
    capacitors; emergency power supply; prosthetic power supplies; Li; Li-ion batteries; Ni; Ni-MH batteries; control circuit; discharge; electric double layer capacitor; emergency power source; excess charge; totally implantable medical devices; Batteries; Chemicals; Circuits; Coils; Fault location; Frequency; Implantable biomedical devices; Protection; Supercapacitors; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Bioelectromagnetism, 1998. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Melbourne, Vic.
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-3867-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICBEM.1998.666390
  • Filename
    666390