Medical instruments and devices and parts thereof using shape memory alloys

Fabrication of metal medical instruments and devices from a shape memory alloy which provides greater flexibility in design and avoids the need for substantial cold working of the alloy which is required in other methods. The new process provides a ductile alloy for ease of forming and a unique heat...

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Hauptverfasser:	MOORLEGHEM WILFRIED VAN, SCHETKY L. MCDONALD, SERNEELS ANJA
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ALLOYS APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR ORAL OR DENTAL HYGIENE BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS CHANGING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF NON-FERROUS METALS ANDNON-FERROUS ALLOYS CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, ORSURGICAL ARTICLES CHEMISTRY DENTISTRY DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROMTHE BODY DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS DIAGNOSIS DISINFECTION, STERILISATION, OR DEODORISATION OF AIR FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS FIRST-AID KITS FOMENTATION HUMAN NECESSITIES HYGIENE IDENTIFICATION MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICALARTICLES MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE METALLURGY METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS INGENERAL ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES PROSTHESES SURGERY TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS
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Zusammenfassung:	Fabrication of metal medical instruments and devices from a shape memory alloy which provides greater flexibility in design and avoids the need for substantial cold working of the alloy which is required in other methods. The new process provides a ductile alloy for ease of forming and a unique heat treatment which renders the fabricated orthodontic and medical components highly elastic, with a high resistance to kinking and with good corrosion resistance. In addition, this new process produces orthodontic and medical components useful over the temperature range of from -20 to +40 degrees C.