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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2014
Applicant:
Smith & Nephew, Inc., Memphis, TN (US);
Inventors:
Carie Fincher Alley, Memphis, TN (US);
Laura J. Gilmour, Memphis, TN (US);
Assignee:
Smith & Nephew, Inc., Memphis, TN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/34 (2006.01); B05D 1/12 (2006.01); A61F 2/30 (2006.01); A61L 27/56 (2006.01); A61L 27/30 (2006.01); A61F 2/38 (2006.01); A61F 2/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/3094 (2013.01); A61L 27/56 (2013.01); A61F 2/389 (2013.01); A61F 2/3859 (2013.01); A61F 2/44 (2013.01); A61F 2002/3092 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30968 (2013.01); A61F 2310/00029 (2013.01); A61F 2310/00089 (2013.01); A61F 2310/00131 (2013.01); A61L 27/306 (2013.01); A61L 2400/18 (2013.01); Y10T 156/10 (2015.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods for providing tissue-interfacing surface layers with increased roughness can be attained by providing a metallic powder to a machined or previously machined tissue-interfacing surface of a porous foam structure. The metallic powder can have sizes and characteristics such that the porous structure can have an increased roughness at the tissue-interfacing machined surface while inhibiting the occlusion of the open pores in the porous metallic foam structure.