Tubular Energy Harvesters for Leadless Pacemakers
			
				
				Institute of Electrical and Control Engineering
				   
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Energy Harvesters
                                                                             
	                                                                                                                                              
	
                                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                            
				
				
				Will be used to wrap around the cylindrical leadless
pacemaker. The blood pressure causes the harvester on the pacemaker surface
to deform and produce output electricity. The advantage of the new design is that
the space inside the tubular harvester is not occupied by the energy conversion
structures. Therefore, pulse generators can be integrated with the harvesters to
reduce the volume and number of implanted devices.