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Stent having a bridge structure

US8858616B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Admedes Schuessler GmbH · DE

Inventors

Michael Ehrlinspiel · Weingarten, DE
Erik Flaxmeier · Waldbronn, DE
Alexander Lange · Kiefersfelden, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 7, 2011
Grant date	Oct 14, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 27, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61F2002/91533
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In a stent intended for implantation in a living body and having a bridge structure in which at least two bridges are coupled to one another at at least one node region on at least one of the bridges near the node region, the section modulus of the bridge varies along the length thereof, and the stresses arising at the node region upon deformation of the stent are distributed in the longitudinal direction of the bridge.

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