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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 1997
Filed:
Jul. 15, 1992
Keith D'Alessio, Madison, CT (US);
Donald S Kaplan, Weston, CT (US);
Ross R Muth, Brookfield, CT (US);
John Kennedy, Stratford, CT (US);
United States Surgical Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A completely bioabsorbable reinforced composite material for use in medical implants and a method for making same. The composite material comprises a hybrid yarn of intimately co-mingled reinforcement fibers of a crystalline polymer and matrix fibers of a polymer having a glass transition temperature below the melting point of the crystalline polymer. The hybrid yarn is heated under pressure to a processing temperature between the glass transition temperature of the matrix fibers and the melting point of the crystalline polymer to form a continuous matrix with reinforcing fibers of crystalline polymer. The composite material may be formed by a two step consolidation process.