Patent ID: 7769459

Claim:
Spring contact apparatus for an implantable medical device, the apparatus comprising: a header; a plurality of electrically non-conductive housings, each housing having a chamber and a bore therethrough alignable with adjacent housing bores and assembled in spaced apart abutting pairs within the header with adjacent radial accesses to adjacent housing chambers; a plurality of electrically conductive garter springs, with pairs of the garter springs being disposed in adjacent housing chambers; and a plurality of pigtail leads, wherein each pigtail lead is connected to a said garter spring, wherein adjacent pigtail leads are mechanically and electrically connected together and interconnect corresponding pairs of garter springs and extend through a corresponding access, with sufficient length for attachment to a pulse generator; and a rod receivable by the housing bores, said rod having a plurality of spaced apart electrical terminals corresponding to the spaced apart spring pairs.