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Container for medical use

US4465487A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 3, 1982
Grant dateAug 14, 1984
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Expiry dateJun 3, 2002

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T428/1352
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A collapsible container for medical use which has an improved low temperature characteristics and can withstand high temperatures of high-pressure steam sterilization, includes a container main body made by irradiating a hollow molding having a desired shape formed of an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer with an electron beam to cross-link the copolymer, thus providing a main body. The main body is completely sealed at its periphery except for a predetermined portion providing a non-sealed portion. The end of a functional accessory for achieving the function of the container for medical use is inserted in the non-sealed part of the main body. The accessory is sealed, at the inserted end, to the main body through an interlayer of a non-cross-linked ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer.

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