Breast prosthesis

US6022375A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• DEKUMED Gesellschaft fur Kunststoff- und Medizintechnik mbH · DE

Inventor

• Peter Rickauer · Bernau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 10, 1996
• Grant date: Feb 8, 2000
• Expiry date: May 10, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61F2/52
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A breast prosthesis in the form of an elongated body tapering off towards th ends is substantially made of a hardened plastic resin with gel properties and has a convex upper surface and a substantially planar to slightly convex lower surface, whereby the upper and the lower surfaces in a plan view of the body are delimited by two circular arcs intercepting one another at two points of interception.