Title:
SELF FORESHORTENING FASTENER
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2005120852
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
Disclosed is a fastener that can be mounted to a bone of a patient and can foreshorten and swell of a desired period of time. The fastener can include a head portion and a body portion extending from the head portion. At least one of the head portion and the body portion has a first width that changes to a second width greater than the first width and collectively the head portion and the body portion have a first length that changes to a second length shorter than the first length upon the head portion and the body portion being exposed to a temperature below a glass transition temperature of a polymeric material forming the head portion and the body portion.
Inventors:
VON OEPEN RANDOLF (US)
Application Number:
PCT/US2005/019936
Publication Date:
August 24, 2006
Filing Date:
June 07, 2005
Export Citation:
Assignee:
DEGIMA GMBH (DE)
VON OEPEN RANDOLF (US)
VON OEPEN RANDOLF (US)
International Classes:
A61B17/56; A61B17/86; B42D3/00; A61B17/00
Foreign References:
| US5827287A | 1998-10-27 | |||
| US6905501B2 | 2005-06-14 | |||
| US6921402B2 | 2005-07-26 | |||
| US6206883B1 | 2001-03-27 | |||
| US5925048A | 1999-07-20 |
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