Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.a.

Woodwelding Ag

Tetra Alfa Holdings Sa

Sportwelding Gmbh

Spinewelding Ag

Gjosa Sa

L'oreal

Elmar Mock

Jörg Mayer

Mario Lehmann

Laurent Torriani

Andreas Wenger

Andrea Müller

Milica Berra

Stephanie Goebel-Mehl

Marcel Aeschlimann

Hansen A Yuan

Philipp Seiler

Joakim Kvist

Urs Weber

Frank Martin Phillips

Stephanie Mehl

Patricia Poschner

Ulrich Berlemann

Stephen Hochschuler

Victor Perrin

Nicolas Ganshof Van Der Meersch

Marc Schlappach

Caroline Jackson

Thomas Gabella

A suture anchor retaining a suture is fixated in hard tissue, in particular in bone tissue, using any per se known method and is then secured using a securing element including a material having thermoplastic properties, which is liquefied in situ and made to penetrate the hard tissue in which the suture anchor is fixated. The securing element is e.g. a thermoplastic plug or thermoplastic sleeve which is anchored above the suture anchor in a mouth area of the same hard tissue opening. Alternatively the securing element is a thermoplastic pin which is introduced into an inner cavity of the suture anchor, wherein the material having thermoplastic properties is liquefied in this cavity and, in a liquid state is pressed through passages connecting the cavity with outer surfaces of the anchor.

Method and device for fixating a suture anchor with a suture in hard tissue

A graft or prosthetic element suitable, e.g., for replacing a tendon or ligament is fastened in a bone tunnel or blind opening with the aid of a fastener. In a first step, the graft or prosthetic element is press-fitted in the tunnel or opening by forcing the fastener into the opening or by positioning the fastener in the opening and then expanding it, wherein the fastener is in contact with the graft or prosthetic element and with the bone wall of the tunnel or blind opening. In a second step, the fastener is anchored in the bone wall of the tunnel or blind opening with the aid of a liquefiable material which is liquefied in the vicinity of the bone wall where it is in contact with the fastener and by making the liquefied material penetrate into the bone wall.

Method of fastening a tissue or a corresponding prosthetic element in an opening provided in a human or animal bone and fastener suitable for the method

A spine stabilization device having an interbody spacer shaped to be inserted between a vertebral body of an upper vertebra and a vertebral body of a lower vertebra. The device further includes a fixation device to be inserted after placement of the interbody spacer, the fixation device having a support portion securing the interbody spacer against escaping from between the vertebral bodies into a ventral direction. The support portion rests against a portion of an anterior surface of the interbody spacer, and includes an anchor. The anchor has an anchoring material portion that is inserted, in a liquid state, into cancellous bone tissue of at least one of the vertebral bodies of the upper and lower vertebra, to thereby infiltrate the cancellous bone tissue, and to harden thereafter so as to fix the support portion to the vertebral body.

Spine stabilization device, and method and kit for its implantation

A facility used for sanitation, cosmetics, and private or industrial cleaning includes a water supply, an outlet unit, a consumable unit and a control unit. The facility is a low through-flow rate facility. The control unit includes a sensor adapted to measure at least one value, a user interface unit adapted to enter a set-point and a closed loop control unit configured to adapt an operation parameter of the facility in consideration of the set-point.

Supervisory unit washing facility

A method and installation for joining a cover layer to an object in a continuous process. Joining is effected with the aid of a joining material having thermoplastic properties, wherein the joining material is arranged between the cover layer and the object and is liquefied using ultrasonic vibration energy. Before application of the ultrasonic vibration energy, the joining material is preheated in a contactless manner with the aid of electromagnetic induction in the region of the glass transition temperature of the joining material or above this glass transition temperature. The object is in particular a chip board and the cover layer an edge strip to be joined to an edge of the chip board.

Method and installation for joining a cover layer to an object, as well as cover layer suitable for the method

A method for joining a device to an object with the aid of a combination of ultrasonic vibration energy and induction heating, wherein the device includes a portion of a thermoplastic polymer and a susceptor additive wherein this portion is at least partly liquefied or plasticized through the ultrasonic vibration energy in combination with the induction heating and wherein the joining includes establishing a connection between the device and the object which connection is at least one of a positive fit connection, a weld, a press fit connection, and an adhesive connection. The induction heating is applied for rendering the device portion suitable for absorption of ultrasonic vibration energy than other device portions by raising its temperature above the glass transition temperature of the polymer. The ultrasonic vibration energy is used for liquefying or at least plasticizing the thermoplastic polymer of the named device portion.

Method for joining a device to an object with the aid of ultrasonic vibration energy and device and installation suitable for the method

Closure unit on flowable product container

A closure unit has, for additionally securing a new state, a predetermined breaking point (5), which at least partly passes around the pouring opening circumference and connects the pouring part (1) and the closure part (2). In order that the predetermined breaking point (5) is protected against damage and can only be broken by a force directed in the same direction as that necessary for opening the closure unit, on the outside of the closure unit the predetermined breaking point (5) is covered by a protection/support zone (10) and can also be supported on the inside of the closure unit by support zones (11), wherein the predetermined breaking point (6) is made of a different material (A) from the material (B) of the protection/support zone (10).

Closure unit on a container for flowable products

The inventive closure unit has a hinge (4), which pivotally interconnects the pouring part (1) and the closure part (2). The hinge (4) comprises at least one bearing part and a pivot part pivotally mounted on the bearing pan. The closure unit is produced according to a multimaterial injection molding process, in such a way that the beating parts are made from one material and the pivot parts from another. As a result of the good matching of such materials molded on one another the pairs of beating surfaces are also tight, so that the hinge (4) can take over part of the sealing function between the pouring pan (1) and the closure pan (2).

Closure unit for a container having a hinged construction, made of

A closure unit consists substantially of a closure part (2) and a pouring part (3). It has at least two areas of which each one consists of a thermoplastic material, wherein the material of one area differs from the material of a neighboring other area. The closure part (2) has an indicator (8) forming part of the area of one material and extending over the outer surface of the pouring part which in the vicinity of the indicator provides part of an area of a different material. The indicator has a predetermined breaking location (85) or a connection with the pouring part which cannot be reconnected and, on first opening the closure unit it irreversibly brought from a first attitude or position into a second attitude or position.

Hinged closure unit for a container with film breakage for first opening

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Biel/Bienne, Switzerland

Elmar Mock