Patent ID: 7546165
Filing Date: 2009-06-09
Classification: A61N,H01R,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An implantable lead comprising: a lead body extending from a lead proximal end portion to a lead distal end portion and having a lead intermediate portion therebetween, the lead body including one or more longitudinally extending lumens; a cable conductor received in, and extending along, a first lumen; an electrically conductive interposer having an inner surface coupled with the cable conductor and an outer surface, the interposer received, at least in part, in the first lumen; and a tubular electrical contact co-axial with, and overlying portions of, the lead body; wherein a first portion of a first lumen wall compressively urges the outer surface of the interposer, at least in part, through an interposer exposing aperture in a second portion of the first lumen wall toward an inner surface portion of the tubular electrical contact adjacent the cable conductor, such that a portion of the interposer is intermediately positioned between the cable conductor and the adjacent inner surface portion of the tubular electrical contact.