Patent · US Active

Fatigue test system and method of testing of tubular implant structures

US8196478B2 · kind B2 · utility

11Cited by

4References

20Claims

0Family size

Assignee

C.R. Bard, Inc. · US

Inventors

Markus Lorenz · Haibach, DE
Thiemo Blank · Plankstadt, DE
Roman Forreiter · Ettlingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 14, 2007
Grant date	Jun 12, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 5, 2028

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01N2203/0458
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A fatigue test system for repetitively deforming a substantially tubular implant structure which is within a radial range and within an axial range expandable and contractable and which has at least a first and a second end, wherein the system comprises at least a first and second part which are controllably moveable relative to each other, and a first and a second fixture assembly for fixing the first end to the first part and the second end to the second part, so that the system controls in use the position of each of the first and second end of the tubular implant structure.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.