Patents Assigned to Heraeus Medical GmbH
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Patent number: 10463413Abstract: Storage and mixing systems for pasty two-component polymethyl methacrylate bone cements comprise a tubular cartridge having a cylindrical inner chamber, a cartridge head, which closes one end of the tubular cartridge at the front side, a partition that is disposed axially in the cylindrical inner chamber of the cartridge. The partition divides the cylindrical inner chamber of the cartridge bounded by the cartridge head into two cavities that are spatially separated from one another, wherein a first pasty cement component is present in the first cavity and a second pasty cement component is present in the separate second cavity.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2017Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: HERAEUS MEDICAL GMBHInventors: Sebastian Vogt, Thomas Kluge
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Publication number: 20190314546Abstract: An antibiotic polymethylmethacrylate bone cement that is composed of methylmethacrylate, at least one polymethylmethacrylate or a polymethylmethacrylate-copolymer, at least one polymerisation initiator, such as in radical initiator, at least one polymerisation accelerator, and at least one radiopaquer, whereby the components are present in a powdered component and a liquid monomer component or in two components that are pasty at room temperature. The polymethylmethacrylate bone cement comprises the cyclical lipopeptide, daptomycin, a pharmacologically tolerable salt of daptomycin, a solvate and/or a hydrate containing daptomycin and at least one calcium salt, which preferably comprises at least two different release profiles. The bone cement is useful in one-stage or two-stage septic revision surgery.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Applicant: HERAEUS MEDICAL GMBHInventors: SEBASTIAN VOGT, SUSANN KLIMAS
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Patent number: 10399248Abstract: A spacer mold and method for producing a hip spacer, the spacer mold comprises a base element (1), in which a hollow mold is provided as negative image of one side of a femoral stem of the spacer to be generated, whereby a recess connected to the hollow mold is arranged on the proximal end of the hollow mold in the base element. The spacer mold further comprises a semi-spherical insert (2) comprising a femoral head mold as negative image of one side of a femoral head of the spacer to be generated, whereby the semi-spherical insert (2) is to be arranged in the recess in the base element (1). Further, the spacer mold comprises an adapter insert (3) that is designed as a hollow body that is open on two sides and that is or can be arranged in the recess of the base element (1) between the semi-spherical insert (2) and the hollow mold such that the recess exerts a pressure onto the adapter insert (3) and the semi-spherical insert (2).Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: HERAEUS MEDICAL GMBHInventors: Edgar Wüst, Sebastian Vogt
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Patent number: 10350327Abstract: A methods and mixtures are provided for sterilization of a polymerizable monomer, in which the mixture contains at least the polymerizable monomer, a compound (a), and a compound (b). Compound (a) is selected from the group of compounds (a1), compounds (a2), and compounds (a3), wherein compounds (a1) are represented by general formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4, independent of each other, represent a substituted alkyl residue, a non-substituted alkyl residue, a halogen, a nitro group, or a cyano group; compounds (a2) are selected from the group of dimers of compounds (a1); and compounds (a3) are selected from the group of dialkyldicarbonates. Compound (b) is selected from the group of water and alcohols.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Heraeus Medical GmbHInventor: Sebastian Vogt
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Publication number: 20190183552Abstract: One aspect relates to a device to produce a bone cement paste from a monomer liquid and a cement powder as starting components of the bone cement paste, and to dispense the mixed bone cement paste.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2018Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: Heraeus Medical GmbHInventors: Thomas Kluge, Rainer Strathausen, Sebastian Vogt
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Patent number: 10322207Abstract: An antiseptic composition for use as bone cement, in particular an antiseptic polymethylmethacrylate bone cement. The composition can be cured and comprises a pharmacologically tolerable salt of a monoperoxy dicarboxylic acid, whereby the salt of the monoperoxy dicarboxylic acid can be dissolved from the composition in the presence of water. Preferably, the salt of the monoperoxy dicarboxylic acid in the composition is used in the form of a powder, whereby the powder has a mean particle size of not more than 250 ?m. Preferably, the salt of the monoperoxy dicarboxylic acid, in solution at room temperature, is not degraded within 5 min by the catalase enzyme.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: HERAEUS MEDICAL GMBHInventors: Sebastian Vogt, Lorena Calderón Ortiz
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Patent number: 10307508Abstract: A vacuum mixing system for the mixing of polymethylmethacrylate bone cement comprising at least one cartridge (4) having an evacuatable internal space (5) for the mixing of the bone cement, the internal space (5) of which comprises a cylindrical swept volume, a mixing element (12) that is arranged in the internal space (5) of the cartridge (4) such as to be mobile and can be operated from outside the vacuum mixing system in order to mix the content in the internal space (5) of the cartridge (4), and a dispensing plunger (2) having a cylindrical external circumference whose first base surface borders a base surface of the internal space (5) of the cartridge (4) and which can be or is locked to the cartridge (4) in detachable manner and which, in the detached state, is mobile in the cylindrical region of the internal space (5) of the cartridge (4).Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: HERAEUS MEDICAL GMBHInventor: Sebastian Vogt
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Patent number: 10307496Abstract: Sterilization method according to which an aqueous polysaccharide solution is stored in the presence of a lactone and a buffer system for a period of at least 24 hours, and a sterile polysaccharide solution produced in this way.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: HERAEUS MEDICAL GMBHInventors: Sebastian Vogt, Thomas Kluge
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Patent number: 10307195Abstract: Devices and methods mix a bone cement and comprise at least one cartridge, wherein the cartridge comprises in its interior a cylindrical mixing chamber, a discharge piston movable in the cylindrical mixing chamber in the longitudinal direction and sealable against the walls of the mixing chamber, a mixing device for thoroughly mixing the content of the mixing chamber, which is arranged in the interior of the mixing chamber. The mixing device is operable externally via a mixing rod and the mixing rod is guided through a passage in the discharge piston such that it can be rotated and displaced in the longitudinal direction by the discharge piston. The cartridge comprises a discharge opening opposite the discharge piston, wherein, in the mixing chamber, a first component is contained between the discharge piston and the discharge opening, wherein a monomer fluid as a second component is introducable through the discharge opening into the mixing chamber.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: HERAEUS MEDICAL GMBHInventor: Sebastian Vogt
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Patent number: 10300222Abstract: A medical spraying device and method for irrigating a wound, in particular lavage system, having a liquid reservoir for a medical irrigation liquid or a connection for such a liquid reservoir, and a compressed gas reservoir. The compressed gas reservoir is connected or connectable via a pressure line to the liquid reservoir, such that the irrigation liquid can be pushed by the gas pressure of the compressed gas reservoir acting on the irrigation liquid through a nozzle in order to produce a spray cone. A pressure reduction valve is arranged in the pressure line and limits the gas pressure acting in the liquid reservoir on the irrigation liquid. The device and method produce a spray cone of a medical irrigation liquid in which a gas pressure is limited using a pressure reduction valve, wherein the gas pressure limited by the pressure reduction valve is conveyed through a pressure line to a liquid reservoir of the medical irrigation liquid.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2014Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: HERAEUS MEDICAL GMBHInventor: Sebastian Vogt
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Patent number: 10293078Abstract: A polymerizable polymethylmethacrylate bone cement, in which the initial viscosity of the cement dough can be controlled. The polymerizable bone cement composition comprises a monomer for radical polymerization, a powdered polymethylmethacrylate-co-polymer soluble in the monomer or a mixture comprising polymethylmethacrylate-co-polymers, a polymerization initiator, and a radiopaquer, wherein the powdered polymethylmethacrylate-co-polymer comprises at least one particulate polymethylmethacrylate-co-polymer having a molar mass of more than or equal to 200,000 g/mol, and the polymethylmethacrylate-co-polymer is obtainable by polymerization of a mixture of 90.0% or more by weight methylmethacrylate and 10.0% or less by weight of one or more comonomers, wherein the weight ratio of component A comprising the polymethylmethacrylate-co-polymer, radiopaquer, and polymerization initiator, and component B comprising a monomer for radical polymerization, stabilizer, and polymerization accelerator, is approximately 2.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2016Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: HERAEUS MEDICAL GMBHInventors: Sebastian Vogt, Thomas Kluge
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Patent number: 10286369Abstract: A storage and mixing system for pasty two-component polymethyl methacrylate bone cements comprises a tubular cartridge with a cylindrical interior, a cartridge head that closes one end of the tubular cartridge, a partition wall axially disposed in the cylindrical interior and dividing the cylindrical interior into two spatially separate cavities, the first cavity including a first pasty cement component and the second cavity including a second pasty cement component, two delivery plungers disposed movably in the two cavities and connected via a connecting means, wherein a wedge or cone having a cutting edge on the front side thereof facing the cartridge head is disposed on the connecting means, such that said cutting edge cuts open the partition wall when the delivery pistons are advanced towards the cartridge head and the wedge or cone presses the cut open parts of the partition wall towards the inner wall of the cartridge.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2017Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: HERAEUS MEDICAL GMBHInventors: Sebastian Vogt, Thomas Kluge
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Patent number: 10286370Abstract: A storage and mixing system, for pasty two-component polymethyl methacrylate bone cements, comprises a cartridge with a cylindrical interior, a cartridge head that closes an end of said cartridge, a partition wall axially disposed in the cylindrical interior of the cartridge, wherein said partition wall is connected to the circumferential surface of the cylindrical interior of the cartridge and divides the cylindrical interior of the cartridge delimited by the cartridge head into two spatially separate cavities. The first cavity includes a first pasty cement component and the separate second cavity includes a second pasty cement component, two delivery plungers close the two cavities on the side of the cavities opposite the cartridge head.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2017Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: HERAEUS MEDICAL GMBHInventors: Sebastian Vogt, Thomas Kluge
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Patent number: 10258399Abstract: Paste application system having a two-component cartridge with two axially shiftable feed plungers; one hollow cylinder with an open front face and an at least partially closed front face, an axially mobile first plunger situated therein with two pestles attached to it; another hollow cylinder that contains a manually shiftable second plunger; and a liquid container, whereby the second hollow cylinder is connected or connectable to the liquid container in liquid-permeable manner by a first conduit means and a first non-return valve, and the first hollow cylinder is connected or connectable to the second hollow cylinder in liquid-permeable manner by a second conduit means and a second non-return valve; whereby the two-component cartridge and the first hollow cylinder, arranged axially adjacent, with the axially mobile pestles are arranged in a pressure container; and the paste application system contains a hollow space and liquid is present in said space.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2015Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: HERAEUS MEDICAL GMBHInventors: Sebastian Vogt, Clemens Greiner
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Patent number: 10166057Abstract: Storage and mixing systems and methods for pasty multicomponent polymethylmethacrylate bone cements, the systems and methods comprise a first tubular cartridge with a first cylindrical internal space containing a first starting component, a first dispensing plunger, a second tubular cartridge that is arranged within the first tubular cartridge. The external wall of the second cartridge touches against the internal wall of the first cartridge and is attached to the internal wall of the first cartridge, whereby the second cartridge contains a second starting component and has a second dispensing plunger arranged in it, whereby a pressing device with a clamping edge for compressing the second cartridge that can be propelled axially in the internal space of the first cartridge is arranged, as seen from the cartridge head, behind the first dispensing plunger and the second dispensing plunger.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2017Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: HERAEUS MEDICAL GMBHInventors: Sebastian Vogt, Thomas Kluge
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Publication number: 20180360515Abstract: One aspect relates to a device for producing a bone cement paste from a monomer liquid and a cement powder and for delivering the bone cement paste, the device having a cartridge with a cylindrical interior, the interior of the cartridge being closed at the front side apart from a delivery opening for discharging the bone cement paste from the interior. A delivery plunger is arranged in the interior of the cartridge and mounted so as to be pushable in the direction of the delivery opening. The cement powder is arranged in the interior of the cartridge between the delivery opening and the delivery plunger. A closure closes the delivery opening and is mounted so as to be movable relative to the delivery opening. A line element is arranged at the front side of the delivery opening and includes a closure receptacle for receiving at least part of the closure.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: Heraeus Medical GmbHInventors: Sebastian Vogt, Thomas Kluge
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Patent number: 10143979Abstract: A device mixes bone cement and stores parent components of the bone cement. The device has a cartridge comprising an interior, that is closed on one side by a movable delivery plunger, a receptacle comprising side walls for receiving a monomer liquid container that are closed at least in some regions. The receptacle has at least one deformable closed side wall, a screen and/or a filter arranged below the receptacle so that the contents of the opened monomer liquid container flow through the screen and/or the filter. The device further has a connecting line through which the monomer liquid is to be routed into the interior of the cartridge, a hollow cylinder which is connected to the connecting line and which is connected to the receptacle by way of a fluid connection so that the hollow cylinder is arranged in a fluid line between the receptacle and the interior of the cartridge.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: HERAEUS MEDICAL GMBHInventors: Sebastian Vogt, Thomas Kluge
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Patent number: 10143773Abstract: A malleable, biodegradable hemostatic agent is provided that can be used for mechanical sealing of bleeding bone tissue, as well as a method for forming a malleable, biodegradable hemostatic agent of this type, and a medical implant having a coating that includes a malleable, biodegradable hemostatic agent of this type. The malleable, biodegradable hemostatic agent contains (a) at least one saturated glycerol-1,2,3-tri-fatty acid ester having a melting temperature above 37° C., (b) at least one filling agent present in particulate form, at least in part, and having a melting temperature above 37° C., and (c) at least one compound having a melting temperature not above 37° C. and a solubility at a temperature of 25° C. of less than 50 grams per liter of water.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Heraeus Medical GmbHInventor: Sebastian Vogt
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Publication number: 20180333176Abstract: One aspect relates to a device for producing a bone cement paste from a monomer liquid and a cement powder as parent components of the bone cement paste and for delivering the mixed bone cement paste. The device has a cartridge with a cylindrical interior. The interior of the cartridge is closed at a front side apart from a delivery opening for discharging the bone cement paste. In the interior of the cartridge a delivery plunger is arranged which is pushable in the direction of the delivery opening. The cement powder is arranged in the interior of the cartridge between the delivery opening and the delivery plunger. A hollow cylinder is arranged at a front side of the delivery plunger facing the delivery opening. The hollow cylinder is open at its front face facing the delivery opening and extends from the front side of the delivery plunger at least 3 mm into the interior of the cartridge.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2018Publication date: November 22, 2018Applicant: Heraeus Medical GmbHInventors: Sebastian Vogt, Thomas Kluge, Rainer Strathausen
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Patent number: D849267Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2016Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: HERAEUS MEDICAL GMBHInventor: Hermann Josef Rokitta