PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vision regeneration assisting apparatus which continues operation of an intracorporeal device in case of failure.SOLUTION: The vision regeneration assisting apparatus is equipped with an extracorporeal device having a transmitting mean of stimulation data and electric power and the intracorporeal device having a receiving means of the stimulation data and the electric power and outputting stimulation pulses from an electrode based on the stimulation data and the electric power. The intracorporeal device includes a first unit for converting the stimulation data and the electric power to a predetermined signal, a second control unit which extracts the stimulation data from the signal and outputs stimulation pulses from the electrode, and conductors for connecting the first and second units. The first unit is equipped with a conductor selecting means for simultaneously using one line of the conductors as a monitor line for detecting the failure and two lines out of the other conductors as power supply lines and a conductor failure determining means for determining whether three selected conductors are simultaneously used as the monitor line and the power supply lines, and the second unit connects the conductors in parallel through a rectifying device.COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT【課題】 故障が生じても体内装置の動作を継続できる視覚再生補助装置を提供する。【解決手段】 刺激用データと電力の送信手段を持つ体外装置と、刺激用データと電力の受信手段を有し,刺激用データと電力に基づいて電極から刺激パルスを出力する体内装置と、を持つ視覚再生補助装置で、体内装置は刺激用データと電力を所定の信号に変換する第1ユニットと、この信号から刺激用データを抽出し電極から刺激パルスを出力する第2制御ユニットと、第1と第2ユニットを接続する導線と、を有し、第1ユニットは導線のうちの1本を故障検出用のモニタ線とし他の導線のうち2本を電力供給線として同時に使用するための導線選択手段と,選択された3本の導線がモニタ線及び電力供給線として同時に使用可能かを判定する導線故障判定手段と,を備え、第2ユニットは、導線を整流素子を介して並列に接続する。【選択図】 図4
