Claims
- 1. A living body implantable electric cable comprising:(a) a plurality of conductive leads, each conductive lead adapted to supply power to a living body implant; and (b) a plurality of coaxial leads, each separate from said conductive leads and made of a central conductor, a dielectric layer that is substantially conformal to said central conductor and a conductive shield, said coaxial leads being adapted to provide an expanded information conduit to or from said living body implant.
- 2. The living body implantable electrical cable of claim 1, wherein said central conductor is less than 80 μm in diameter.
- 3. The living body implantable electrical cable of claim 1, wherein said dielectric layer forms a tube having an inner diameter of less than 90 μm.
- 4. The living body implantable electrical cable of claim 1, more specifically being a human body implantable electrical cable.
- 5. The living body implantable electrical cable of claim 1, more specifically being an animal body implantable electrical cable.
- 6. A bioelectrical stimulus cable, comprising:(a) a set of fibrils, each having a diameter of less than 30 μm and being stranded together and wherein separate subsets of said fibrils are stranded together into separate stranded subsets and wherein said stranded subsets are stranded together into a stranded set of stranded subsets; and (b) insulative material electrically isolating said set of fibrils.
- 7. The bioelectrical stimulus cable of claim 6 wherein said fibrils each have a diameter of less than 20 μm.
RELATED PATENT APPLICATIONS
The present application is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/415,534 now U.S. Pat. No. 6,374,141, filed Oct. 8, 1999.
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