Global Patent Index - EP 0422177 A1

EP 0422177 A1 19910417 - SELF-REINFORCED SURGICAL MATERIALS AND DEVICES.

Title (en)

SELF-REINFORCED SURGICAL MATERIALS AND DEVICES.

Title (de)

SELBST VERSTÄRKTE CHIRURGISCHE MATERIALIEN UND ANORDNUNGEN.

Title (fr)

MATERIAUX CHIRURGICAUX AUTORENFORCES ET DISPOSITIFS CORRESPONDANTS.

Publication

EP 0422177 A1 19910417 (EN)

Application

EP 90906234 A 19900424

Priority

FI 891973 A 19890426

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO9012550A1] This invention describes self-reinforced, absorbable surgical materials and/or implants and/or their parts and/or components, which can be implanted into the living tissue or on its surface for the purpose of e.g. to repair tissue damages, to join tissues or their parts to each other, to augment tissues or their parts, to separate tissues or their parts from each other and/or from their surroundings, and/or to conduct material between tissues or their parts and/or out of tissues or from the outside into the tissues, for which self-reinforced materials and/or implants or their parts and/or components is characteristic that their reinforcing elements are wound at least partially around some axis penetrating the implant. These implants have better and more isotropic strength properties than the known self-reinforced implants.

Abstract (fr)

Matériaux chirurgicaux absorbables autorenforcés et/ou implants et/ou parties et/ou éléments d'implants, qui peuvent être implantés dans des tissus vivants ou sur la surface de ces tissus pour, par exemple, réparer des tissus endommagés, pour joindres des tissus ou des parties de tissus entre elles, pour accroître des tissus ou parties de tissus, pour séparer des tissus ou parties de tissus les uns des autres ou de leur milieu environnant, et/ou pour insérer des matières entre des tissus ou parties de tissus et/ou les en extraire ou les y introduire. Les éléments de renforcement de ces matériaux autorenforcés et/ou implants ou parties et/ou éléments sont enroulés au moins en partie autour d'un axe qui pénètre dans l'implant. Ces implants présentent des propriétés de résistance supérieures et plus isotropes que ceux de l'état antérieur de l'art.

IPC 1-7

A61F 2/08

IPC 8 full level

A61B 17/58 (2006.01); A61B 17/72 (2006.01); A61F 2/00 (2006.01); A61F 2/06 (2006.01); A61F 2/08 (2006.01); A61L 27/48 (2006.01); A61L 31/12 (2006.01); A61L 31/14 (2006.01); A61L 33/00 (2006.01); A61F 2/30 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

A61B 17/58 (2013.01); A61B 17/72 (2013.01); A61B 17/7283 (2013.01); A61F 2/00 (2013.01); A61F 2/06 (2013.01); A61F 2/08 (2013.01); A61L 27/48 (2013.01); A61L 31/129 (2013.01); A61L 31/148 (2013.01); A61F 2/30965 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30261 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30298 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0082 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0091 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

See references of WO 9012550A1

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH DE DK ES FR GB IT LI LU NL SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 9012550 A1 19901101; AU 5233293 A 19940217; AU 5530190 A 19901116; EP 0422177 A1 19910417; FI 88111 B 19921231; FI 88111 C 19930413; FI 891973 A0 19890426; FI 891973 A 19901027; JP H03505537 A 19911205

DOCDB simple family (application)

FI 9000113 W 19900424; AU 5233293 A 19931210; AU 5530190 A 19900424; EP 90906234 A 19900424; FI 891973 A 19890426; JP 50633290 A 19900424