The device includes an energy harvesting module with a pendular unit formed of an elastically deformable piezoelectric beam associated with an inertial mass. A multifunction part includes an axial through-recess with inner bearing surfaces opposite respective outer faces of the beam. These bearing surfaces having an increasing transverse spacing, such as, during an oscillation cycle, the beam comes into contact with one of the bearing surfaces, hence reducing the free length of the beam as the bending of the latter goes along. The multifunction part also allows rationalizing the manufacturing and the assembly of the capsule, with high-level integration of the inner components of the implant.

The present invention relates to an electrochemical device for releasing ions, comprising an electrical circuit comprising a first electrode and a second electrode adapted for providing a galvanic cell when the electrodes are exposed to a fluid constituting an electrolyte, and a boost converter adapted for amplifying a potential generated between the first and the second electrode. The electrical circuit further comprises a third electrode connected with an output side of the boost converter, wherein the second and the third electrode constitutes an electrolytic cell powered by the galvanic cell when the electrodes are exposed to a fluid. The present invention further relates to devices, such as a toothbrush or a shaver, adapted for being used in connection with a fluid, comprising such electrochemical device for releasing ions.

The present application relates to stacked piezoelectric composites comprising piezoelectric structures. Suitably, the composites are useful as tissue-stimulating implants, including spinal fusion implants. The present application also relates to methods of making stacked piezoelectric composites.

An energy harvester converts into electrical energy the external stresses applied to the implant at the heartbeat rhythm. This harvester comprises an inertial unit and a transducer delivering an electrical signal that is rectified and regulated for powering the implant and charging an energy storage component. The charge level of the energy storage component is compared with a lower threshold to detect an insufficient charge, and a dynamic charging control circuit modifies, as and whenever necessary, and if the current patient's state allows it, a stimulation parameter in a direction liable to increase in return the mean level of the mechanical energy that is produced and harvested.

An oral care device for placement in the oral cavity. The oral care device may include a support component, a piezoelectric component, and/or a therapeutic element. The support component is configured for placement between one or more maxillary teeth and one or more mandibular teeth. The piezoelectric element is configured to generate an electrical current from relative movement of the maxillary teeth and the mandibular teeth. The therapeutic element is configured to release a therapeutic composition into the oral cavity at least in part in response to receiving the electrical signal. The device may include the piezoelectric component, the therapeutic element, or both.

An energy harvester converts into electrical energy the external stresses applied to the implant at the rhythm of the heartbeats. This harvester comprises an inertial unit. A transducer provides an oscillating electrical signal that is rectified and regulated, for powering the implant and/or charging a battery. The instantaneous variations of this electrical signal between two heartbeats are analyzed inside successive time windows, to derive therefrom a physiological parameter and/or a physical activity parameter of the patient with the implant, in particular as a function of a peak of amplitude of the first oscillation of the electrical signal, and of the level of this signal after the bounce phase of the signal oscillation.

A method is provided for producing an electrically-powered device and/or component that is embeddable in a solid structural component, and a system, a produced device and/or a produced component is provided. The produced electrically powered device includes an attached autonomous electrical power source in a form of a unique, environmentally-friendly structure configured to transform thermal energy at any temperature above absolute zero to an electric potential without any external stimulus including physical movement or deformation energy. The autonomous electrical power source component provides a mechanism for generating renewable energy as primary power for the electrically-powered device and/or component once an integrated structure including the device and/or component is deployed in an environment that restricts future access to the electrical power source for servicing, recharge, replacement, replenishment or the like.

A receiver module of an autonomous implanted capsule receives a human body communication, HBC, signal sensed by an electrode in contact with body tissues or fluids of a patient. The signal is a pulse-modulated, baseband PPM pulse signal. The receiver module comprises a non-linear LNA amplifier stage comprising a pair of complementary transistors arranged as a voltage inverter circuit with an input coupled to the modulated-input-signal collecting electrode. The amplifier stage input is polarized to an intermediate operating point voltage between a supply voltage of the complementary transistor pair and a ground voltage. The amplifier stage has a gain of at least 40 dB, a gain-bandwidth product of at least 20 MHz, and a consumption lower than or equal to 100 nW. It is followed by a downstream demodulator stage made up of a fast comparator circuit of the Threshold Inverter Quantization, TIQ, type, comprising two inverters with cascade-coupled complementary transistors, one of the inverters operating as a voltage reference and the other inverter operating as a gain booster.

An energy harvester converts into electrical energy the external stresses applied to the implant at the heartbeat rhythm. This harvester includes an inertial unit and a transducer delivering an oscillating electrical signal that is rectified and regulated for powering the implant and charging an energy storage component. The instantaneous variations of this electrical signal are analyzed in a detection window following or preceding a ventricular contraction, to obtain atrial activity information representative of the atrium contribution to the electric signal, in particular information about the presence/absence of a spontaneous atrial contraction, and/or parameters making it possible to determine an atrioventricular delay to be applied if the ventricle has to be stimulated.

The present invention includes two methods for manufacturing an artificial cartilage and two types of artificial cartilage manufactured thereby, one of the said artificial cartilages can be utilized through implanting surgery fixed into an individual natural joint of an individual, and the other into an artificial joint of an individual joint of an individual before or during implanting surgery. The present invention is invented based on JOINT-ELECTRICITY THEORY created by the present inventor. After the said artificial cartilage is implanted, it can effectively react to the intra-articular dynamic pressure to continuously cause piezoelectricity effect for continuously generating Joint-Electricity, and to generate a sufficient amount of Joint-Electricity during daily living, so as to reduce pain, improve muscular strength, and speed the recovery of active motion ability after surgery.