Abstract: A wire for use in medical applications. The wire is formed by forming a bundle from a plurality of metallic strands and positioning the bundle within an outer tube. The tube and strands are then drawn down to a predetermined diameter to form a wire for use in medical devices. The wire may be covered with an insulating material.

Abstract: A wire for use in medical applications. The wire is formed by forming a bundle from a plurality of metallic strands and positioning the bundle within an outer tube. The tube and strands are then drawn down to a predetermined diameter to form a wire for use in medical devices. The wire may be covered with an insulating material.

Abstract: A wire for use in medical applications. The wire is formed by forming a bundle from a plurality of metallic strands and positioning the bundle within an outer tube. The tube and strands are then drawn down to a predetermined diameter to form a wire for use in medical devices. The wire may be covered with an insulating material.

Abstract: An electrically conductive titanium dioxide sputter target with an electrical resistivity of less than 5 ?-cm, which contains as an additive at least one doping agent or a mixture of doping agents in an amount of less than 5 mole %. The doping agent or agents are selected from the group including indium oxide, zinc oxide, bismuth oxide, aluminum oxide, gallium oxide, antimony oxide, and zirconium oxide. This treatment renders the titanium dioxide sputter target suitable for use in a direct-current sputtering process without any negative effects on the properties of the coating.

Abstract: A wire for use in medical applications. The wire is formed by forming a bundle from a plurality of drawn filled tubing strands and positioning the bundle within an outer tubing. The tubing and strands are then drawn down to a predetermined diameter to form a wire for use in the medical devices. The wire may be covered with an insulating material.

Abstract: A stimulation electrode is provided having an electrically conducting electrode base member which is partially covered with an electrically insulating ceramic layer. The ceramic layer is formed of an oxide and/or an oxynitride of at least one metal of the group of titanium, niobium. tantalum, zirconium, aluminum and silicon. Various methods are provided for production of the stimulation electrode, including methods in which the ceramic layer is formed in situ by a thermal, chemical or electrochemical oxidation or oxynitridation process. The stimulation electrode may be used as a cardiac pacemaker electrode, a neuro-stimulation electrode, or another human implant.

Abstract: A method is provided for producing electrode structures which have a supply line and a contact surface connected thereto, wherein a planar electrode material is roll bonded onto a planar carrier material and the thickness of the electrode material and carrier material is reduced by rolling. The electrode material is then structured with formation of contact surfaces and supply lines in its surface, and predefined parts of the electrode material are removed. Then, electrode material located on the carrier material is coated with a sealing compound or a foil, and the carrier material is then removed. The structure may be used in medical implants for neuro stimulation and/or muscular stimulation, for example in a cochlear implant, a retina implant, or a cortical electrode.

Abstract: An alloy based on silver is provided, which can be used for reflective layers with a reflection factor of >90% in the visible spectral range of daylight and which exhibits a high resistance to corrosion in sulfur-containing atmospheres. The alloy contains about 0.01 to 5 wt % indium and/or tin and/or antimony and/or bismuth and the remainder silver.

Abstract: A process is described for the manufacture of chlorotris(triphenylphosphine)-rhodium(1) by means of causing a reaction of RhCl3 solution with triphenylphosphin in mixtures of C2–C5 alcohols with water subsequently cooling down and filtering the crystalline precipitate obtained characterized in that the mixture of the reactants is handled in such a way that B is warmed up to 75° C., and C is maintained at 80 to 110° C. The technique leads to improvements in the yield and quality of the crystals obtained.

Abstract: The invention relates to a glass ceramic mass containing at least one oxide ceramic containing barium, titanium and at least one rare earth metal Rek; and at least one glass material containing at least one oxide with boron, at least one oxide with silicon and at least one oxide with at least one bivalent metal Me2+. The glass ceramic mass is characterised in that the glass material contains at least one oxide with bismuth, especially bismuth trioxide. The oxide ceramic is especially a microwave ceramic of formula BaRek2Ti4O12, Rek being neodymium or samarium. The composition of the oxide ceramic remains essentially constant during the sintering of the glass ceramic, enabling the material properties of the glass ceramic mass, such as permittivity (20–80), quality (800–5000) and Tkf (±20 ppm/K) to be specifically predetermined. The glass ceramic mass is characterised by a densification temperature of under 910° C.

Abstract: A stimulation electrode has an electrode surface at least partially covered with a coating of titanium nitride, the titanium nitride having on its side remote from the electrode surface a larger surface than the region of the electrode surface covered by the titanium nitride. The titanium nitride is covered with at least one oxidation protection layer on its surface remote from the electrode surface. The stimulation electrode is useful, for example, in cardiac pacemakers, neuro-stimulation devices and other human implants.

Abstract: A medical implant or device which is at least partially fabricated from a metal alloy consisting essentially of (a) 98.85-99.15 weight percent Niobium, (b) 0.85-1.15% weight percent Zirconium.

Abstract: A bonding wire spool case, and a method of handling a spool using the spool case, with a structure capable of effectively preventing the durability and the holding of the spool from being deteriorated due to the repeated coupling and decoupling operations of the spool with respect to the spool holder while preventing the bonding wire from being contaminated and damaged due to the carelessness of the worker. The bonding wire spool case includes a base having a bottom portion, a sidewall protruding from the bottom portion in a body at four sides thereof while internally forming a spool receipt portion, and a holder entrance formed at one or more sides of the sidewall to pass a spool holder. A spool wound with a bonding wire thereon is mounted to the spool receipt portion in the horizontal direction such that the central axis of the spool is maintained to be parallel to the bottom portion of the base.

Abstract: A method is provided for producing electrode structures which have a supply line and a contact surface connected thereto, wherein a planar electrode material is roll bonded onto a planar carrier material and the thickness of the electrode material and carrier material is reduced by rolling. The electrode material is then structured with formation of contact surfaces and supply lines in its surface, and predefined parts of the electrode material are removed. Then, electrode material located on the carrier material is coated with a sealing compound or a foil, and the carrier material is then removed. The structure may be used in medical implants for neuro stimulation and/or muscular stimulation, for example in a cochlear implant, a retina implant, or a cortical electrode.

Abstract: An alloy based on silver is provided, which can be used for reflective layers with a reflection factor of >90% in the visible spectral range of daylight and which exhibits a high resistance to corrosion in sulfur-containing atmospheres. The alloy contains about 0.01 to 5 wt % indium and/or tin and/or antimony and/or bismuth and the remainder silver.

Abstract: A hydrogen permeation membrane including a niobium alloy with 5-25 wt. % of at least one element from the group consisting of palladium, ruthenium, rhenium, platinum, gold, and rhodium.

Abstract: A tube target for cathode sputtering installations, and a process for producing a cylindrical hollow body for such a tube target and its use. The problem of providing a simple and low-cost process for producing a cylindrical hollow body for a tube target and of providing a cylindrical hollow body with a uniform, fine-grained structure is solved by the cylindrical hollow body being produced by centrifugal casting of a melt.

Abstract: Alloys and reflector layers are provided which are based on silver and which contain at least three different chemical elements. The alloys and reflector layers are used for reflective layers with a reflection factor of over 90% in the visible spectral range of daylight and exhibit a high resistance to atmospheric corrosion relative to chlorine and sulfur.

Abstract: A process for producing platinum alkenyl polysiloxane complex compounds, especially platinum divinyltetramethyldisiloxane, by reacting a haloplatinum compound with at least one alkenyl polysiloxane in the initial presence of platinum in the form of a platinum complex compound as an autocatalyst and in the initial presence of at least one base in an organic solvent or mixture of organic solvents that can be oxidized by the haloplatinum compound.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a medical device or implant made at least in part of a high strength, low modulus metal alloy comprising Niobium, Tantalum, and at least one element selected from the group consisting of Zirconium, Tungsten, and Molybdenum. The medical devices according to the present invention provide superior characteristics with regard to bio-compatibility, radio-opacity and MRI compatibility.