Abstract: A medical implant, more particularly a stent, having a tubular lattice structure which can be transferred from a radially expanded compressed state to a radially compressed expanded state and has lattice elements that delimit the cells of the lattice structure and have an element surface. In order to enlarge the element surface of each lattice element a polymer nanostructure is distributed over the entire element surface of the lattice element and adheres to it, and an antithrombogenic coating is provided and extends across the lattice element structure surface enlarged by means of the polymer nanostructure.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a stent, in particular for treating carotid artery diseases, including a tubular braided mesh made of wires which are each helically wound about a longitudinal axis of the braided mesh and cross over and under one another. In an idle state, the braided mesh has a proximal cylindrical portion and a distal cylindrical portion which are connected to one another via a transition portion, wherein the proximal cylindrical portion has a different cross-sectional diameter and a different porosity compared to the distal cylindrical portion.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a medical kit for treating vascular diseases, including a tubular or sleeve-type insertion aid, a transport wire having a distal tip, and a stent having a wire mesh which consists of a plurality of wires that, at a proximal stent end define loops and, at a distal stent end, open wire ends. The stent is arranged on the transport wire and together with the transport wire inside the insertion aid. The distal stent end is closer to the distal tip of the transport wire than the proximal stent end.

Abstract: Stent including a mesh of wires having a radiopaque core material and a superelastic shell material and defining loops at a first stent end and open wire ends at a second stent end. The number of wire ends is double the number of loops; and more than 10 vol. %, in particular more than 20 vol. %, more particularly at least 25 vol. %, in particular at least 30 vol. % of each wire is constituted by the core material. The mesh includes (i) 48 wires, each having a wire diameter of 0.038 mm and an outer diameter of 3.65 mm or 4.15 mm or 4.65 mm; (ii) 52 wires each having a wire diameter of 0.042 mm and an outer diameter of 5.17 mm or 5.67 mm or 6.17 mm; or (iii) 64 wires each having a wire diameter of 0.046 mm or 0.05 mm and an outer diameter of 7.18 mm or 8.20 mm.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a medical implant for treating aneurysms, including a support structure, which has a compressible and expansible lattice structure lattice elements that define lattice openings, wherein the lattice structure is covered at least in part with an in particular electrospun membrane of fibres, which membrane includes at least one luminal functional layer and at least one abluminal protective layer, which each have pores, wherein the porosity of the functional layer is less than the porosity of the protective layer. The membrane is so configured that at least the pores of the functional layer open, as a result of a pressure gradient arising between a liquid pressure in an inner through channel of the support structure and a liquid pressure outside the protective layer, so as to increase the throughflow of liquid through the membrane.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an intravascular functional element, in particular an implant, more particularly a Stent, flow diverter, stent graft and intravascular occlusion device, having a radially self-expandable lattice structure which is tubular at least in some regions and which has a wire or a plurality of wires, wherein the wire/at least one of the wires includes a superelastic material, in particular a superelastic material of an alloy with the alloy elements nickel and titanium, wherein a mixed oxide layer is formed on the surface of the wire the wires with a layer thickness of 150 nm to 400 nm, in particular 200 nm to 350 nm, in particular 250 nm to 300 nm.

Abstract: The invention relates to a medical device, in particular a stent, having a radially self-expandable lattice structure (10) which is tubular at least in some sections and which is made of a single wire (11), which is interwoven with itself and which comprises a core material (11a) which is visible under X-ray and a superelastic jacket material (11b) and forms meshes (12) of the lattice structure (10). The invention is characterised in that a plurality of meshes (12) arranged directly adjacently in the circumferential direction of the lattice structure (10) form a mesh ring (13), and the lattice structure (10), in a fully self-expanded state, has an expansion diameter Dexp, the mesh ring (13) having a mesh number n, and the core material (11a) having a core diameter dKern, and the following being true for the core diameter dKern: dKern=f·(Dexp/n), with the following being true for a visibility factor f: 0.05?f?0.08.

Abstract: The invention concerns a medical device, in particular a flow diverter, having a radially self-expandable lattice structure (10) which is tubular at least in some regions and which is composed of a plurality of interwoven individual wires (11) which form meshes (12) of the lattice structure (10), wherein at least some of the individual wires (11) have an X-ray visible core material (11a) and a superelastic mantle material (11b), wherein a plurality of directly adjacent meshes (12) in the circumferential direction of the lattice structure (10) form a mesh ring (13), wherein in a fully self-expanded state, the lattice structure (10) has an expansion diameter Dexp, the mesh ring (13) has a mesh number n, and the core material (11a) has a core diameter dcore, and wherein for the core diameter dcore, the following holds: dcore=f·(Dexp/n) wherein the following holds for a visibility factor f: 0.08?f?0.

Abstract: A modular arrangement system for arranging medical devices, in particular infusion pumps, and a device having a housing which forms the modular arrangement system. The system has at least two arrangement modules which can be mechanically connected to one another. A first arrangement module has a first housing part with a first coupling structure arranged on at least two diametrically opposed sides. A second arrangement module has a second housing part adapted to be mounted on, below or laterally to the first housing part. The second housing part has a bar rotatably or slidably mounted in the second housing part for locking the two housing parts. The bar is designed in such a way that, by a singular actuation, it engages into the first coupling structure on at least two diametrically opposite sides of the first housing part, preferably simultaneously in an undercutting manner.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for producing a baked good. The device comprises an accommodating unit, which is designed to accommodate a capsule, wherein the capsule comprises ingredients for producing a baked good. Furthermore, the device comprises a baking unit, which is designed to bake a dough, and an output unit for outputting a baked good baked in the baking unit. In addition, the device comprises a control unit, which is designed to cause dough, which comprises the ingredients from a capsule inserted into the accommodating unit, to be baked in the baking unit. The control unit is also designed to cause the baked good baked from the dough to be output by means of the output unit.

Abstract: A washing item receptacle for a flat washing item in a dishwasher, in particular in a domestic dishwasher, includes a base and a support element for supporting the flat washing item. The support element is configured for pivoting between a rest position arranged in a plane of the base and a support position which projects from the plane of the base, and for pivoting from the rest position into the support position by the weight of the flat washing item.

Abstract: A household appliance includes a plurality of walls which delimit a treatment compartment. At least one of the walls, e.g. a rear wall of the treatment compartment, is configured predominantly or entirely with a luminous surface element. The luminous surface element can be sized to occupy at least 50% of a surface of the at least one wall and formed by a plate-shaped or panel-type element.

Abstract: A washing item receptacle for a flat washing item in a dishwasher, in particular in a domestic dishwasher, includes a base and a support element for supporting the flat washing item. The support element is configured for pivoting between a rest position arranged in a plane of the base and a support position which projects from the plane of the base, and for pivoting from the rest position into the support position by the weight of the flat washing item.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for producing a baked good. The device comprises an accommodating unit, which is designed to accommodate a capsule, wherein the capsule comprises ingredients for producing a baked good. Furthermore, the device comprises a baking unit, which is designed to bake a dough, and an output unit for outputting a baked good baked in the baking unit. In addition, the device comprises a control unit, which is designed to cause dough, which comprises the ingredients from a capsule inserted into the accommodating unit, to be baked in the baking unit. The control unit is also designed to cause the baked good baked from the dough to be output by means of the output unit.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a food printer, and also to a food printer having a mounting apparatus which is designed to mount the food printer in a treatment compartment of a domestic appliance, in particular in a cooking compartment of a domestic oven and/or in a refrigeration compartment of a domestic refrigerator, and the invention relates to a domestic appliance, in particular a domestic oven and/or a domestic refrigerator, having an electrical interface which is designed to electrically connect a food printer of this kind to the domestic appliance, in particular to the domestic oven and/or to the domestic refrigerator, and/or to actuate said food printer.

Abstract: A domestic refrigeration device includes an interior space in which a partial volume is formed as a separate storage region into which food products can be placed, and a wetting apparatus with which a fluid can be introduced into the storage region independently of the rest of the interior space. The wetting apparatus has a tank containing the fluid to be atomized and an atomizer unit connected to the tank for conducting the fluid. The tank can be moved relative to the atomizer unit in order to be filled with the fluid.

Abstract: A domestic refrigeration appliance includes an interior in which a partial volume is constructed as a separated storage area in which food can be placed, and a humidifying device with which a fluid can be introduced in the storage area independently of the rest of the interior. The humidifying device includes a tank having the fluid to be atomized and an atomizing unit which is connected to the tank for fluid conduction. The storage area has a drawer and at least the tank of the humidifying device is disposed outside of and next to the drawer without an overlap in the width direction of the domestic appliance and at the same height level as the drawer at least in some regions.

Abstract: A household appliance includes a plurality of walls which delimit a treatment compartment. At least one of the walls, e.g. a rear wall of the treatment compartment, is configured predominantly or entirely with a luminous surface element. The luminous surface element can be sized to occupy at least 50% of a surface of the at least one wall and formed by a plate-shaped or panel-type element.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacture of an intravascular functional element that can be introduced into a hollow organ and that comprises at least one wire (10) of an alloy having nickel and titanium as alloying elements, with the following steps: preparation of a metal body of the wire (10) with a metallic surface, then formation of a first oxide layer on the metallic surface of the metal body, then performance of a heat treatment of the wire (10) in a nitrogen-containing salt bath for thermal formation of a second mixed oxide layer on the first oxide layer, wherein the total layer thickness is 15 nm to 100 nm and the mixed oxide layer contains TiO2 and at least one nitride, especially titanium oxynitride and/or titanium nitride.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device comprising a substrate based essentially on nitinol and, arranged thereon at least partially, a covering or a coating based on at least one polyphosphazene derivative having the general formula (I), a process for its production, and the use of the device as an artificial implant, vascular or nonvascular stent, catheter, thrombolectomy or embolectomy catheter, fragmentation spindle or catheter, filter, vascular connector, hernia patch, oral, dental or throat implant or urether.