Strip-like implant

US6872227B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Ethicon, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Raimo Sump · Hamburg, DE
• Christoph Walther · Kattendorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 11, 2000
• Grant date: Mar 29, 2005
• Expiry date: Dec 11, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61F2/0045
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A strip-like implant (1) has a tape (2) with a first end (4) and with a second end (6). In the area of at least one of the two ends (4, 6), a disk-like application aid (10) aligned with the plane of the tape (2) is arranged. The disk-like application aid can also be constructed in the shape of two jaws of a surgical gripping instrument which is set up to grip an implant tape.