Patent ID: 9144689
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: A61N,B23K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of constructing a medical device, comprising: providing a can that houses medical circuitry; providing electrical connectors within the can and electrically connected to the medical circuitry; providing a metallic connector enclosure comprising a metallic body having a metallic base and metallic walls and defining a cavity and a metallic panel welded to at least one of the metallic walls of the metallic body and covering the cavity, the body including an opening to the cavity; providing lead connectors within the cavity and in alignment with the opening, the lead connectors being positioned between the metallic body and the metallic panel; providing electrical conductors that are electrically connected to the lead connectors within the cavity and that are electrically isolated from the metallic connector enclosure while being exposed outside of the metallic connector enclosure; placing a portion of the can in contact with a metallic edge of the metallic connector enclosure such that the electrical connectors within the can and the electrical conductors exposed outside the metallic connector enclosure are in contact and are contained by a housing created by the contact of the can and the metallic connector enclosure; and creating a bond at the contact of the portion of the can and the metallic edge of the metallic connector enclosure.