Patents Assigned to Toho Titanium Co.
  • Patent number: 5167502
    Abstract: An endosseous implant having a mesh pore structure including at least an embedding portion to be embedded in a living bone tissue, the embedding portion containing any one of a single sheet of platelike body itself and a desired shape of body obtained by working the platelike body, the platelike body comprising any one of a single metal mesh sheet and a laminate of a plurality of metal mesh sheets formed into one body by mechanical bonding or by sintering, the laminate having a multiplicity of mesh pores passing through the embedding portion, whereby the embedding portion provides a mesh pore structure adapted to permit into the mesh pores the ingrowth and penetration of a fibrous tissue alone out of three kinds of bone, osteoid, and fibrous tissues or not less than two tissues inclusive of the fibrous tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1992
    Assignees: Haruyuki Kawahara, Toho Titanium Co.
    Inventors: Haruyuki Kawahara, Katsumi Tanaka, Yasuyuki Ashiura, Motonobu Yoshimura