Patent ID: 7758384
Filing Date: 2010-07-20
Classification: A61N,H01R,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An adapter for coupling a pair of implantable neurostimulator lead extension plugs to a connector port of a neurostimulator device; each plug of the pair of plugs including first and second connector terminals extending side-by-side; each of the first and second connector terminals of each plug including a terminal pin contact and a contact surface spaced apart from the pin contact along a length of the corresponding connector terminal; the adapter comprising: an elongate body and eight elongate conductors extending therein; a connector coupled to a first end of the elongate body, the connector including eight contacts, each of the eight connector contacts for electrical coupling with a corresponding device contact mounted within the connector port of the device, and each of the eight connector contacts coupled to a corresponding conductor of the eight elongate conductors; a flexible bifurcation member coupled to a second end of the elongate body, the member including first and second branches; and a first housing coupled to the first branch and a second housing coupled to the second branch; each of the first and second housings including a first sidewall, a second sidewall, opposite the first sidewall, a first face extending between the first and second sidewalls, a second face, opposite the first face and extending between the first and second sidewalls, a third face extending between the first and second sidewalls and between the first and second faces, a fourth face, opposite the third face and extending between the first and second sidewalls and between the first and second faces, a first port and a second port; each of the first and second ports of each of the first and second housings including a first housing contact and a second housing contact, each of the first and second housing contacts coupled to a corresponding connector contact via the corresponding lead wire extending from the elongate body and into the corresponding housing; the first port of each of the first and second housings extending, from an opening located on the first face of the corresponding housing, toward the second face of the corresponding housing; the second port of each of the first and second housings extending, from an opening located on the first face, toward the second face of the corresponding housing, between the first port and the fourth face of the corresponding housing; wherein the first and second port openings of each of the first and second housings provide for side-by-side insertion of the first and second connector terminals of one of the pair of extension plugs, in order that the first connector terminal of the plug be electrically coupled to the first and second housing contacts of the first port of the corresponding housing, and the second connector terminal of the plug be electrically coupled to the first and second housing contacts of the second port of the corresponding housing.