Patent ID: 6975906
Filing Date: 2005-12-13
Classification: A61N

Abstract:
1. An implantable medical device including a header assembly and an implantable housing assembly, the housing assembly comprising an enclosure containing control circuitry, at least one electrical energy storage device, and at least one feedthrough wire extending from the control circuitry and through an opening in the enclosure, the feedthrough wire being electrically insulated from the enclosure by a seal, wherein the enclosure further comprises a lug extending from a housing wall, the lug having a lug opening sized to receive a fastener, the header assembly comprising: (a) a terminal positioned outside the enclosure and connectable to a distal end of the feedthrough wire; (b) a body supporting the terminal and provided with a terminal bore in communication with the terminal from outside the body for connecting a conductor lead thereto; and (c) at least one lug-receiving inlet provided into the body with an intersecting fastener-receiving through bore extending from outside the body to at least a depth sufficient to intersect the lug-receiving inlet, wherein the lug-receiving inlet is matable with the lug extending from the housing wall and wherein the fastener is receivable in the fastener-receiving through bore aligned with the lug opening to secure the body to the housing wall.