Metal implant with anchoring surface

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6200346
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09315597

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A surface for a metal implant has a coarse structure of elevations and depressions, with the surface being permeated by a network of protruding ribs which form nodes and interstices or meshes having an interstice width of 2 mm to 0.4 mm, while the depressions represent sections of spherical cavities. The nodes of the ribs can protrude the furthest like mountain peaks, whereas the ribs which connect two nodes each form a lower lying saddle if the spherical cavities penetrate one another slightly. Through coating with an electrochemically resistant protective lacquer, into which holes can be shot at a predetermined spacing without damaging the metal, with a laser for example, a coarsely structured intermediary surface can be economically provided by means of electrochemical erosion which receives a fine structure through sand blasting.

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SULZER ORTHOPAEDIE AGSWISS BAR

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Baege, Roland Wiesendangen, CH 7 113
Cassells, John Maclaren Houghton, GB 7 250
King, Toby StJohn Cambridge, GB 2 26
Large, Timothy Andrew Cambs, GB 52 1901
Miller, Anne Tregoning Cambridge, GB 7 109

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