Sumitomo Cement Co., Ltd.

Shigehide Takagi

Shigeru Yamauchi

Keijiro Shigeru

Norio Yokota

Takashi Oku

Hideo Yano

Kiyoshi Shinjou

Syohei Sato

Tsutomu Shishikura

Toshihiro Nishi

Yoshifumi Kuboto

An artificial living body composite material comprising an artificial bone portion formed to a desired shape and size, and an inclusion membrane comprising an organic polymer material as a main constituent; optionally the artificial bone portion being composed of a base member and a coating layer.

Artificial living body composite material

A sintered alumina article having an excellent flexural strength comprises numerous sintered plate crystalline corundum particles each having cleavage surface planes and accumulated on and bonded to each other in a manner such that the cleavage surface planes of the accumulated plate crystalline particles are substantially in parallel to each other and can be produced by forming the plate crystalline corundum particles into a predetermined shape so that the plate crystalline particles are accumulated in the above-mentioned manner; and by sintering the resultant precursory article at 1500.degree. C. or more under the ambient atmospheric pressure.

Sintered alumina article with high flexural strength and process for

A porous ceramic material composed of a sintered porous body of a calcium phosphate compound is described. A multiplicity of capillary void paths having a diameter of 1 to 30 .mu.m and a multiplicity of pores having a diameter of 1 to 600 .mu.m are formed in the sintered porous body. At least part of the pores are connected to the exterior space of the sintered porous body through at least a part of the capillary voids. The porous ceramic material is valuable as a medical material, e.g., a substitute or prosthesis for bone or dental root, and also an electronic material and a genetic engineering material. When the porous ceramic material is embedded in a bone defect of human or animals, osteolytic cells, osteoblasts, erythrocytes and body fluid are selectively allowed to intrude through the porous ceramic material while almost no intrusion of osteoclasts and collagen fibers is allowed. Accordingly, the porous ceramic material can be utilized for inducing new-born bone, controlling resorption of bone with age, remedying bone defects.

Porous ceramic material and processes for preparing same

A hardened cement material having enhanced flexural strength, heat resistance, and water resistance prepared from a cement composition comprising 100 parts by weight of a hydraulic cement material containing .gamma.-dicalcium silicate (.gamma.-C.sub.2 S) preferably in an amount of 1% by weight or more and 1 to 20 parts by weight of a water-dispersible polymeric material, and mixed with 5 to 25 parts by weight of water, by a molding procedure and by a heat-hardening procedure at a temperature of from 40.degree. C. to 180.degree. C. while controlling the relative humidity to 20% to 70% and/or applying a pressure of 5 to 15 atmospheres.

Gamma-dicalcium silicate-containing cement composition

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Narashino, Japan

Shigehide Takagi