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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. 10, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Armin Studer, Steinhausen, CH;
Thomas Bollinger, Urdorf, CH;
Assignee:
Sulzer Orthopedics Ltd., Baar, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/44 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/44 ;
Abstract
The basket-like container ( ) contains a reception volume for bone tissue. After the filling in of the bone tissue the container is implanted. The reception volume is located within a wall ( ) which is arranged about an axis ( ). This peripheral wall consists of a grid, a fabric or a mesh. Transversely to the axis the wall enables an X-ray optical seeing through of the unfilled reception volume. The surface component, which is permeable by X-rays, amounts to at least 30%.