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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:
Jul. 02, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 13, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
623 16 ; 433011 ; 606 76 ;
Abstract
A ceramic device providing an environment for the promotion and formation of new bone. The ceramic device is made of a sinter of calcium phosphate compound, containing a plurality of perfect spherical pores whose diameter ranges from 10-450 .mu.m to provide a suitable environment for the formation of new bone. A plurality of micro pores is included whose diameter ranges from 0.01-0.5 .mu.m which surrounds the perfect spherical pores to interconnect the perfect spherical pores with an outer surface of the ceramic device with the micro pores interconnecting with each other.