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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2008
Uwe Steinhardt, Hirrlingen, DE;
Alex Huber, Kuesnacht, CH;
Albrecht Eiber, Weinstadt, DE;
Heinz Kurz GmbH Medizintechnik, Dusslingen, DE;
Abstract
An auditory ossicle prosthesis, which at one end has a first securing element for mechanical connection to a member of the ossicular chain, which securing element is designed in the form of a loop that encloses the member, is partially open to the outside via a slit-like aperture and engages with a force fit around the member, the slit-like aperture being considerably smaller than the diameter of the member engaged by the loop, wherein, after attachment, the loop bears with a force fit on the engaged member via at least three areas, and that, in the circumferential direction around the engaged member, at least three areas of the loop do not touch the engaged member but instead each extend at a distance from the surface of the latter.