Patents Examined by Ncoclan T Mai
  • Patent number: 7625519
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a biomedical porous article wherein communicability between the pores in the porous article is ensured and a desired porosity can be easily obtained, the method comprising a plate-like thread cluster formation step in which a plate-like thread cluster is obtained by dispersing many metallic threads made of a biomedical metallic material along a flat surface and entangling them; a compressing step of compressing the plate-like thread cluster into a desired thickness; and a sintering step of sintering the plate-like thread cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignees: NHK Spring Co., Ltd., Kobayashi Pharmaceut Ical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko Chiba, Yoshiki Ono, Masashi Sakamoto, Akira Yamazaki, Yoichi Nishio, Kenichi Omori