Deutsche Institute Fur Textil-und Faserforschung

B. Braun Surgical Gmbh

Deutsche Institute Fur Textil-und Faserforschung Stuttgart Stiftung Des Offentlichen Rechts

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Deutsche Institute Fur Textilund Faserforschung Denkendorf

Deutsche Institute Fur Textilund Faserforschung Stuttgart

Ditf Deutsche Institute Fur Textil-und Faserforschung

Itv Denkendorf Produktservice Gmbh

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Deutsch Institute Fur Textil-und Faserforschung Stuttgart (ditf)

Heinrich Planck

Helmut Hierlemann

Erhard Mueller

Martin Dauner

Helmut Goldmann

Erhard Müller

Sven Oberhoffner

Hans-Gerd Schmees

Helmut Weinsdorfer

Thomas Stegmaier

Markus Milwich

Carsten Linti

Diethelm Wallwiener

Axel Siegfried Herrmann

Erich Odermatt

Hansjürgen Horter

Ingo Berndt

Silke König

Burkhard Schlosshauer

Olga Speck

Thomas Speck

Uwe Heitmann

Bernhard Leibl

Christoph Rietmuller

Anette Arnold

Norbert M Meenen

Werner Ege

Albrecht Grieben

Christoph Elser

Wolfgang Joas

Anita Ignatius

Lutz Duerselen

Lutz Claes

Maria Baumann

Hermann Finckh

Jerry Karlsson

Ursula Gutknecht

Christian Uhlig

A hybrid yarn for producing molded parts having a thermoplastic matrix and reinforcing fibers embedded therein. The hybrid yarn includes a core substantially made of staple fibers aligned in a straight line in the longitudinal direction of the hybrid yarn, and a cover made substantially of staple fibers wound helically about the core. The staple fibers forming the core and the staple fibers forming the cover each are made of an intimate mixture of thermoplastic matrix fibers and reinforcing fibers.

Hybrid yarn for producing molded parts

A drawn surgical suture material includes an elongate main body and barbs for anchoring in biological tissues, wherein the barbs are formed by cuts made into the suture material in the undrawn state.

Surgical suture material with barbs cut into it in the undrawn state

A tension-free elastic tape is used for the surgical treatment of female urinary incontinence. The tape has a textile structure that allows ingrowth of the tape into the connective tissue. On its longitudinal edges, the tape has edge threads () that project from the textile structure of the tape and that especially facilitate a good primary anchoring of the tape in the tissue. The edge threads are firmly incorporated in the structure of the tape.

Tension-free elastic tape

The invention relates to a rod-shaped fiber composite material () composed of a matrix () and a circular braid () embedded into the matrix. To increase the stability of the fiber composite material () and also to perform ducting functions for electricity and fluids, the wall of the circular braid is provided with wall chambers () which are separated by a phase boundary from the matrix () of the fiber composite material (). These wall chambers () lead to inner and outer sections of the wall of the circular braid () being spaced apart, which is useful for the stability with regard to flexing and torsional loading in particular. Rod-shaped fiber composite materials () according to the invention can be used for creating stable structural components as well as for producing efficiently protected ducts. The invention further relates to an apparatus and a process which are useful for producing fiber composite material according to the invention.

Rod-shaped fibre composite, and method and device for the production thereof

A garment preferably in the form of a body suit which carries one or more sensors for sensing bodily functions of a wearer of the body suit. The body suit preferably has stretchable sections or belts upon which the sensors are carried such that the sensors are maintained in proper position on the body for reliable detection of the body functions.

Garment with integrated sensor system

Method and arrangement for manufacturing core composite layer workpieces (sandwich structures) from at least one first and at least one second cover sheet () between which a core sheet () including especially short cut fibers () is provided, are disclosed with which a continuous and substantially break free manufacture can be conducted which leads to composite layer structures with reasonable costs. Single manufacturing parameters can specifically be varied with different embodiments so that in a relatively simple manner composite layer structures with desired physical properties can be obtained, for example with respect to their strength, stiffness, flexibility, mechanical and acoustic absorption capabilities, working properties, and so on. Composite layer structures for new applications can be manufactured as well.

Arrangement and methods for the manufacture of composite layer structures

The invention relates to a tension-free elastic tape that is used for the surgical treatment of female urinary incontinence. The inventive tape has a textile structure that allows ingrowth of the tape into the connective tissue. On its longitudinal edges, the tape has edge threads () that project from the textile structure of the tape and that especially facilitate a good primary anchoring of the tape in the tissue. The edge threads are firmly incorporated in the structure of the tape.

The invention relates to a tubular implant, in particular a stent, in the form of a round braid composed of threads of biocompatible material extending in oppositely directed helices and crossing over each other, thread areas located at the tube ends being free from thread ends, and threads present there being guided back into the braid structure.

Tubular implant

A system for winding a cross-wound bobbin has a rotatably supported tube holder that is intended to receive a tube. The yarn guide element that serves the purpose of shogging the yarn moves in the direction parallel to the axis of rotation of the tube and is made to execute the oscillating reciprocating motion with the aid of a work cylinder. The work cylinder has the advantage that for braking the kinetic energy at the turning point of the yarn guide element, no additional external energy must be applied. It suffices for the applicable cylindrical chamber to be blocked off. Moreover, the gas compressed in the process can be used to accelerate the piston in the opposite direction. The stored braking energy also can be used simultaneously as acceleration energy. Since in the creation of a cross-wound bobbin many thousand such changes of direction occur, the energy savings are substantial.

Bobbin winding system

In a cross-wound bobbin (), the helical lines along which the yarn () is wound have a different inclination in adjacent layers. The winding ratios are selected such that the quantity drawn off is greater if the unwinding point is moving from the unwinding end to the bottom end, compared to the quantity drawn off if the unwinding point is moving from the bottom end to the unwinding end.

Cross-wound bobbin

A biologically resorbable nerve guide rail with a microporous guide tube of polymers of hydroxycarboxylic acids, where the porosity allows a metabolism through the tube wall, but prevents the passage of cells, and optionally several monofilaments of polymers of hydroxycarboxylic acids located in the guide tube, is characterized in that the inner surface of the tube and/or the surface of the monofilaments have an orientation aid for longitudinally oriented colonization with Schwann's cells.

Bioresorbable nerve guide rail

A suture material for surgery comprises one or more filaments and is formed with a coating, which is characterized in that the coating at least partly comprises a bioresorbable polymer, which is essentially formed from a random terpolymer with a completely amorphous structure.

Suture material for surgery, processes for its production and the use thereof

A medical, bioresorbable implant, particularly for cruciate ligament augmentation, is constructed as a composite structure in textile construction from at least two biocompatible polymer materials, which differ in their chemical composition and/or polymer structure and which are degradable, the implant having a predetermined initial tensile stiffness and a different degradation behaviour of the polymers and/or the textile construction is selected in such a way that the tensile stiffness decreases during degradation.

Medical, bioresorbable implant, process for its production and the use thereof

A flat hernia implant with a flexible fabric formed from at least two textile fabric structures constructed substantially independently of one another and firmly interconnected over the entire surface area of the hernia implant so as to form a composite structure, is made available for use in surgery.

Hernia implant, method for its manufacture and use in surgery

The invention relates to a coating material for medical treatment, particularly a wound contact material, of resorbable, synthetic material, which is formed from a terpolymer based on lactide, trimethylene carbonate and &egr;-caprolactone with a maximum lactide content of 85 wt. %, trimethylene carbonate in the range 5 to 20 wt. % and &egr;-caprolactone in the range 5 to 20 wt. %, a method for its manufacture and its use.

Resorbable, synthetic, medical coating material, method for its manufacture and its use in medicine

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Heinrich Planck