Intervertebral disk endoprosthesis

US5002576A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mecron Medizinische Produkte GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Gerhard Fuhrmann · Berlin, DE
• Ulrich Gross · Berlin, DE
• Bertram Kaden · Berlin, DE
• Herman J. R. Schmitz · Berlin, DE
• Thomas Fritz · Gernsbach, DE
• Curt Kranz · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 6, 1989
• Grant date: Mar 26, 1991
• Expiry date: Jun 6, 2009

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S606/907
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An intervertebral disk endoprosthesis is filled with an elastic material and provided with cover plates at its end faces, and has a circular or elliptical corrugated tube surrounding the viscoelastic material, the tube being terminated by cover plates.