Kensey Nash Corporation

Fmc Corporation

Robert L McDade

Timothy Ringeisen

Joseph DeMeo

Patrick E Hearn

Amanda Turner

Patrick E Heam

Timothy A Ringeisen

A high strength porous biphasic polymeric reinforcement material manufactured by a compression and/or sintering process is disclosed. The material results in a network of interconnected collapsed pores, which forces thin overlapping walls and passages to be created. The network provides permeable access for fluid migration throughout the material. The strength and/or permeability are advantageous for medical devices and implants.

Bi-phasic compressed porous reinforcement materials suitable for implant

A device is formed by the process into a bone screw or fastener, wherein the head has a degree of polymer alignment and strength, and wherein the shank has a higher degree of polymer alignment and strength. In practice of the present invention, the polymer slug is pressed into the die cavity by the actuation of ram press, causing the slug to conform to the die cavity. Through this process, the polymer molecular orientation is aligned to different degrees, in different zones of the device.

Oriented polymer implantable device and process for making same

A high strength porous polymeric material manufactured by a compression process is disclosed. The material results in a network of interconnected collapsed pores, which forces thin overlapping walls and passages to be created. The network provides permeable access for fluid migration throughout the material. The strength and/or permeability are advantageous for medical devices and implants.

Compressed porous materials suitable for implant

An improved strap tensioning tool, which is particularly adopted for use with non-metallic strap, in which the free end portion of a strap laced about an article which is to be strapped is gripped between an anvil and a wedge-shaped clamp member while the feed portion of such strap is engaged with a tension-applying means. The clamp member is floating supported for effectively gripping the strap during the initial tensioning thereof, regardless of the strap thickness, and a single operating lever serves to actuate the tensioning-applying means, facilitate tensioning of the strap free end portion after such portion is connected to the tensioned feed portion thereof, effect severance of the applied strap from a supply, and release of the clamp member.

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Downingtown, PA, United States of America

Robert L McDade