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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:
Dec. 18, 1990
Filed:
Jan. 06, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sulzer Brothers Limited, Winterthur, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
623 16 ;
Abstract
A metal grid is embedded in the contact surface of a plastic implant in order to increase the wear resistance of the plastic implant. The ridge dimensions of the metal grid are chosen so that the elasticity of the plastic implant is not unduly reduced. An additional anchoring surface formed of layers of porous metal may be secured to the embedded grid to provide a surface into which bone tissue may grow in a cementless anchorage.