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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 1989
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Christian Mansat, Balma, FR;
Assignees:
Sulzer Brothers Limited, Winterthur, CH;
Protek AG, Berne, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
623 13 ;
Abstract
The crucial ligament replacement is formed with two cords to define the anterior crucial ligament and posterior crucial ligament. The cords interpenetrate each other within sections of relatively great flexibility and relatively large longitudinal stretchability so that mutual movement between the two cords at the crossing point is reduced to a minimum where an attrition are greatly reduced at the crossing point.