Matches 1 - 50 out of 54 1 2 >
Match Document Document Title
7404819 Implantable prosthesis  
An implantable prosthesis and a method of repairing an anatomical defect, such as a tissue or muscle wall defect, by promoting tissue growth thereto, while limiting the incidence of postoperative...
7378020 Fluoropolymer membrane  
A porous fluoropolymer membrane comprising a first surface, a second surface, nodes and free fibrils, wherein one of the first and second surfaces has a greater number of free fibrils per unit area...
7357709 Metal vent  
A metal vent having an aperture for the passage of a fluid, a porous membrane sealing the aperture, wherein the components of the vent are assembled by an interference fit.
7306841 PTFE material with aggregations of nodes  
A novel polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) material includes a plurality of aggregates connected together by a plurality of relatively long fibrils. Each of the aggregates are formed of PTFE nodes that...
7244271 Self-sealing PTFE vascular graft and manufacturing methods  
An implantable microporous ePTFE tubular vascular graft exhibits long term patency, superior radial tensile strength and suture hole elongation resistance. The graft includes a first ePTFE tube and...
7211210 Dry fibrillated PTFE film and its method of manufacture  
A finished PTFE film is produced by first preparing an extruded, dried, unsintered and unexpanded PTFE feed film, and then reducing the thickness of the feed film by more than 20% by passing it...
7156804 Hernia prosthesis  
A prosthesis for repairing a tissue or muscle wall defect. The prosthesis comprises a layer of repair fabric having first and second and an edge that extends between the first and second surfaces....
7101381 Implantable prosthesis  
An implantable prosthesis for repairing an anatomical defect, such as a tissue or muscle wall hernia, including an umbilical hernia, and for preventing the occurrence of a hernia at a small opening...
7017591 Particulate coated monofilament devices  
Disclosed are coated monofilament dental devices overcoated with biofilm-responsive particulate abrasives.
6907889 Non-crystalline saliva-soluble coatings for elastomeric monofilament dental tapes  
An improved dental tape treated with a substantive coating containing a crystal control substance, wherein said coating is: saliva soluble, substantially crystal-free, with a flaking value of less...
6790213 Implantable prosthesis  
An implantable prosthesis for an anatomical defect, such as a tissue or muscle defect, that promotes tissue or muscle growth into the prosthesis and subsequently strengthens the area of the defect....
6719783 PTFE vascular graft and method of manufacture  
An implantable microporous ePTFE tubular vascular graft exhibits long term patency, superior radial tensile strength and suture hole elongation resistance. The graft includes a first ePTFE tube and...
6620190 Radially expandable polytetrafluoroethylene  
Extruded, stretched, sintered tubular PTFE materials are produced which are suited for use in the medical field as liners and covers for expandable stents. The PTFE materials have an unusually low...
6609527 Non-crystalline saliva-soluble coatings for elastomeric monofilament dental tapes  
An improved dental tape treated with a substantive coating containing a crystal control substance, wherein said coating is: saliva soluble, substantially crystal-free, with a flaking value of less...
EP0766532B1 A SURGICAL PLEDGET DISPENSING SYSTEM  
Abstract not available for EP0766532 Abstract of corresponding document: WO9632893 A surgical pledget dispensing system (10) wherein a pledget (13) is affixed to at least one other object (11, 12,...
6428571 Self-sealing PTFE vascular graft and manufacturing methods  
An implantable microporous ePTFE tubular vascular graft exhibits long term patency, superior radial tensile strength and suture hole elongation resistance. The graft includes a first ePTFE tube and...
6270530 Prosthetic repair fabric  
A prosthetic repair fabric including a sheet of tissue infiltratable fabric and a second sheet, also preferably including tissue infiltratable fabric, which is united with the first sheet. The...
6162885 Multi-axially orientated amorphous PTFE material  
The invention is an amorphous polytetrafluoroethylene or PTFE polymer that is composed of multi-axially oriented PTFE polymer chains. The multi-axial orientation allows the invention to exhibit...
6120539 Prosthetic repair fabric  
A prosthetic repair fabric including a sheet of tissue infiltratable fabric and a second sheet, also preferably including tissue infiltratable fabric, which is united with the first sheet. The...
6120532 Graphite impregnated prosthetic vascular graft materials  
The specification teaches thromboresistant compositions made of suitable biologically compatible plastic materials and a substance having a negative charge, e.g., graphite, incorporated therein in...
6117556 Tape for sealing screw joints  
An unsintered polytetrafluoroethylene tape for sealing screw joints is described. The tape is obtained by uniaxially stretching an unsintered body of a composition comprising 75 to 25 wt. parts of...
6080198 Method for forming a yarn wrapped PTFE tubular prosthesis  
An implantable microporous ePTFE tubular vascular graft exhibits long-term patency, superior radial tensile strength, reduction in tear propagation, and increases in suture retention strength and...
6036724 PTFE vascular graft and method of manufacture  
An implantable microporous ePTFE tubular vascular graft exhibits long term patency, superior radial tensile strength and suture hole elongation resistance. The graft includes a first ePTFE tube and...
6001125 PTFE vascular prosthesis and method of manufacture  
An implantable microporous ePTFE tubular vascular graft exhibits long term patency, superior radial tensile strength and suture hole elongation resistance. The graft includes a first ePTFE tube and...
5980799 Methods of making controlled porosity expanded polytetrafluoroethylene products and fabrication  
A method of forming porous articles with a varying pore distribution by extrusion from a billet with a varying lubricant distribution. A single-polymer polytetrafluoroethylene is extruded and then...
5972449 Porous products manufactured from polytetrafluoroethylene treated with a perfluoroether fluid and methods of manufacturing such products  
Porous materials suitable for a variety of uses including waterproof/breathable fabrics, air filters, liquid filters, liquid/liquid separation membranes, vascular grafts, mechanical seals, etc....
5955016 Method of forming a vascular prosthetic structure including expanded PTFE and graphite  
A method of forming a vascular prosthetic structure, including steps of: mixing polytetrafluoroethylene resin with graphite powder to create a mixture; compacting the mixture to form a preform;...
EP0630432B1 CONTROLLED POROSITY EXPANDED FLUOROPOLYMER (E.G. POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE) PRODUCTS AND FABRICATION  
Abstract not available for EP0630432 Abstract of corresponding document: WO9318214 A method of forming porous articles with a varying pore distribution by extrusion from a billet with varying...
5869156 Porous products manufactured from polytetrafluoroethylene treated with a perfluoroether fluid and method of manufacturing such products  
Porous materials suitable for a variety of uses including waterproof/breathable fabrics, air filters, liquid filters, liquid/liquid separation membranes, vascular grafts, mechanical seals, etc....
5861033 Method of making controlled porosity expanded polytetrafluoroethylene products and fabrication  
A method of forming porous articles with a varying pore distribution by extrusion from a billet with a varying lubricant distribution. A single-polymer polytetrafluoroethylene is extruded and then...
5858505 Macroscopically perforated porous polytetrafluoroethylene materials  
A macroscopically perforated porous expanded polytetrafluoroethylene sheet material having a microstructure of nodes interconnected by fibrils wherein the perforations have a minimum diameter of...
5824046 Covered stent  
A composite intraluminal device is deployable within a body vessel. The composite device includes an elongate radially expandable tubular stent having an interior luminal surface and an opposed...
5800512 PTFE vascular graft  
An implantable microporous ePTFE tubular vascular graft exhibits long term patency, superior radial tensile strength and suture hole elongation resistance. The graft includes a first ePTFE tube and...
5733308 Surgical pledget dispensing system  
A surgical pledget dispensing system wherein a pledget is affixed to at least one other object whereby the pledget is tearably releasable from the at least one other object. Preferably a...
5692530 Braided dental floss  
A braided dental floss having increased tensile strength, reduced likelihood of fraying and improved cleaning comprising multiple braided threads of nylon, polyester, polyethylene, PFA, PTFE,...
5645915 High strength porous PTFE sheet material  
A high strength, porous PTFE sheet material having high strength in all directions within the plane of the sheet material. The sheet material has, within the plane of the sheet, a higher minimum...
5641566 High strength porous PTFE sheet material  
A high strength, porous PTFE sheet material having high strength in all directions within the plane of the sheet material. The sheet material has, within the plane of the sheet, a higher minimum...
5614284 Laminated patch tissue repair sheet material  
A sheet of implantable patch tissue repair material having the form of a layer of porous polytetrafluoroethylene sheet material laminated to a layer of mesh-type sheet material having a...
5609624 Reinforced vascular graft and method of making same  
A microporous reinforced expanded PTFE vascular graft in which the reinforcing structure is substantially identical in porosity to the body of the graft. The graft is characterized by a microporous...
5607478 Yarn wrapped PTFE tubular prosthesis  
An implantable microporous ePTFE tubular vascular graft exhibits long-term patency, superior radial tensile strength, reduction in tear propagation, and increases in suture retention strength and...
5552100 Method for manufacturing porous fluoropolymer films  
A method for preparing thin fluoropolymer (PTFE) films, said method generally having the steps of: a) providing an unsintered fluoropolymer film; b) pre-sintering expansion of the film; c)...
5510176 Polytetrafluoroethylene porous film  
The polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) porous film of the invention is characterized in that the film is formed from a PTFE resin molding powder obtained by suspension polymerization and has a porosity...
EP0515387B1 A PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURE OF LOW DENSITY POLYTETROFLUOROETHYLENE INSULATED CABLE  
Abstract not available for EP0515387 Abstract of corresponding document: US4999146 An improved process for manufacturing low density polytetrofluoroethylene insulated cable using a paste type...
5433996 Laminated patch tissue repair sheet material  
A sheet of implantable patch tissue repair material comprising a layer of porous polytetrafluoroethylene sheet material laminated to a layer of mesh-type sheet material having a multiplicity of...
5433909 Method of making controlled porosity expanded polytetrafluoroethylene products  
A method of forming porous articles with a varying pore distribution by extrusion from a billet with a varying lubricant distribution. A single-polymer polytetrafluoroethylene is extruded and then...
5358678 Polytetrafluoroethylene porous film and process for preparing the same  
A polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) porous film is formed from a PTFE resin molding powder obtained by suspension polymerization. The film has a porosity of 40 to 80% and a removal ratio of uniform...
5262234 Polyetrafluoroethylene fiber containing conductive filler  
A fiber of expanded porous polytetrafluoroethylene in which an amount of a conductive particulate filler is incorporated imparting a measure of conductivity to the fiber is disclosed. The fiber may...
5209251 Dental floss  
A dental floss is produced from expanded polytetrafluoroethylene that has been coated with a friction enhancing coating such as a microcrystalline wax to increase the friction coefficient of the...
EP0515387A1 A PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURE OF LOW DENSITY POLYTETROFLUOROETHYLENE INSULATED CABLE.  
Abstract not available for EP0515387 Abstract of corresponding document: US4999146 An improved process for manufacturing low density polytetrofluoroethylene insulated cable using a paste type...
4863792 Multi-layer laminates of microporous films  
Multi-layer, microporous polyolefin sheet materials are provided. The sheet materials comprise at least two microporous polyolefin layers, the layers being autogenously bonded and having...
Matches 1 - 50 out of 54 1 2 >