SUBSTRATE WITH ROTATABLE STRUTS FOR MEDICAL DEVICE

Japanese Patent JP2022121526

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To provide a favorable substrate, etc. for medical apparatuses.SOLUTION: A medical device comprises a substrate 10 forming a major surface 9 defining a plane, including a plurality of first struts 14 along a first direction interconnected with a plurality of second struts 12 extending along a second direction not parallel with the first direction, where widths 11 of the second struts as measured along the major surface are larger than thicknesses of the second struts as measured perpendicular to the major surface such that when the substrate is stretched in the first direction, intermediate sections 15 of the second struts rotate relative to the first struts 14 and the intermediate sections of the second struts bend out of the plane of the major surface. The medical device is operable to extend and/or retract elements suitable for a particular purpose. The elements are extended and/or retracted in response to a stress applied by way of stretching and/or retracting the device, among other methods. The elements may remain extended and/or retracted or may recoil back to an initial position upon the removal of the force.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

PAUL D GASSLER
NATHAN L FRIEDMAN
BRUCE M STEINHAUS
EDWARD H CULLY
JEFFREY B DUNCAN

JP2022100495A

August 19, 2022

June 22, 2022

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Aoki Atsushi
Shinji Mihashi
Satoshi Deno
Atsushi Ebiya
Naonori Koda
Naoki Kobayashi

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