53 results about "Cobalt-chrome" patented technology

Polyaxial and uni-planar bone screw assemblies include a multi-threaded shank body having an integral upper portion receivable in a one piece receiver, the receiver having an upper channel for receiving a longitudinal connecting member and a lower cavity cooperating with a lower opening. A compression insert and open retaining ring located in the receiver may be made of cobalt-chrome and the compression insert may provide a diametric interference fit with the receiver. Receivers or inserts may include resilient arm portions. The open ring cooperates with the shank to provide for pop- or snap-on assembly of the shank with the receiver either prior to or after implantation of the shank into a vertebra.

A bone anchor comprises a screw having a threaded shank portion and a head portion, and a housing assembly. At least the threaded shank portion is formed from a titanium or titanium alloy and at least a portion of the housing is formed from a stronger material such as cobalt chrome. The housing assembly has a passageway extending therethrough and a proximal end and a distal end. A saddle is defined within the proximal end of the housing assembly and is configured to retain a portion of a rod therein. The distal end of the housing assembly is configured for securely engaging the head portion of the screw such that the screw is at least one of rotatable and pivotable with respect to the housing.

A dual mobility femoral head construct has a secure acetabular shell received within an acetabular recess formed in a pelvis. An implantable prosthetic device is implantable after a failure of an originally installed articular head insert of an acetabular cup assembly. A hemispherical liner is formed from a cast cobalt-chromium alloy for thinness and elasticity. At least three spacers are annularly displaced about an outer diameter of the hemispherical liner to define a uniform cement thickness with the secure acetabular shell. Web shaped depressions are formed circumferentially in the outer diameter of the hemispherical liner to receive cement to resist lever out forces and to secure the cement bond with the secure acetabular shell. A replacement articular head insert is then received for dual mobility rotational movement in an inner diameter of the hemispherical liner. A femoral head implant is received for articulating movement in the articular head insert.

The present invention includes a radiopaque stent comprising a cylindrical main body. The tubular main body comprises a cobalt chromium alloy that comprises cobalt, chromium and one or more radiopaque materials.

A bone fracture fixation system comprising a metallic bone plate having a first composition comprising titanium or a titanium alloy and an opening for receiving a metallic fastener that has a second composition comprising titanium, a titanium alloy, or a stainless steel, and is sized to be received in the opening, and a cold-sprayed metallic coating either within the opening or on the metallic fastener is provided. The cold-sprayed metallic coating comprises a biocompatible metallic material having a third composition different than the first and second compositions. When the metallic fastener is inserted into the opening to stabilize a bone fracture, the cold-sprayed metallic coating may substantially prevent bonding or one or more types of corrosion between the metallic fastener and the metallic bone plate. In another embodiment, the cold-sprayed metallic coating comprises at least one of a cobalt-chrome alloy, gold, a gold alloy, silver or a silver alloy.

The invention relates to cobalt-chromium alloy powder and a preparation method and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of material increase manufacturing in the department of dentistry. The cobalt-chromium alloy powder special for material increase manufacturing in the department of dentistry is provided. The cobalt-chromium alloy powder comprises, by weight, 24%-27% of Cr, 6%-9% of Mo, 2%-4% of Cu, 1%-2% of Mn, 0-0.05% of O, 0-0.02% of N and the balance Co. According to the cobalt-chromium alloy powder, the specific ingredients and matching are adopted, so that the alloy density is decreased, and the low-weight purpose of final products is realized; the toxicity caused by beryllium, cadmium and nickel in final cobalt-chromium alloy in the department of dentistry is completely removed while the usability is guaranteed, and biocompatibility of the cobalt-chromium alloy is greatly enhanced; and moreover, the powder prepared through the preparation method has the advantages of being good in degree of sphericity, small in number of hollow sphere particles, good in mobility and the like, thereby being capable of completely meeting the requirement for the powder by metal material increase manufacturing.

The invention relates the stove enamel support cobalt chromium alloy containing rare earth La used for teeth. The method uses the electrolysis Co, metal Cr, metal Mo, metal La, metal W, electrolysis Mn, and crystal Si as raw materials, getting the cast ingot by melting them in electric induction furnace. The chemical compositions are following: Cr 15.0-30.0wt%,Mo 4.0-9.0wt%, La 0.03-0.30wt%, Mn 0-2.0wt%, Si 0-3.0wt%, W 0-10.0wt%,C 0-0.2wt% and Co. The alloy can be made with the casting machine, stove enamel furnace, and porcelain. The alloy binding ability is improved because of the rare earth La. The test indicates: alloy bonding strength is 75MPa, strength for extension (ªÊb ) is 800MPa, yield strength (ªÊ0.2) is 680MPa, elongation (ª€5) is 18%, diamond pyramid hardness (HV) is 300-400, coefficient of thermal expansion (ª‡RT-500Deg.C) is 13.4-14.5ª–m/m/Deg.C, and casting shrinkage is 1.8-2.1%. The binding ring and bar, which are cast by cobalt chromium alloy, has the advantages of high intensity and good rebound elasticity. The invention is the ideal material.

The invention relates to an intracranial sirolimus medicament-release blood vessel stent. The blood vessel stent has an integral net tubular structure which is formed by a cobalt-chromium alloy L605 tube through laser engraving and cutting and electrochemical polishing treatment; the net tubular structure comprises a plurality of support rods with sine waveform unit structures and connecting rods connected among the support rods; and the blood vessel stent is integrally coated with a sirolimus medicament-release layer. A preparation method for the blood vessel stent comprises the following steps: preparing the cobalt-chromium alloy L605 tube into the blood vessel stent of the net tubular structure through laser engraving and cutting and electrochemical polishing treatment; pre-treating the surface of the blood vessel stent of the net tubular structure; preparing sirolimus medicament coating solution; compositely spraying the sirolimus medicament solution to the surface of the blood vessel stent; and drying the sirolimus medicament-release blood vessel stent. The blood vessel stent has low nominal pressure, can effectively inhibit the neointimal formation of the blood vessel and the proliferation and migration of smooth muscle cells (SMC), and also can effectively solve the problem of intracranial arterial blood vessel restenosis.

The invention discloses a preparation method of an antibacterial cobalt chromium alloy porcelain artificial tooth. Cobalt chromium alloy consists of Cr, Mo, W, Mn, Nb, Si, Ag, Cu, Ce and Co. The preparation method comprises the following steps: (1) manufacturing a lost foam pattern, then coating a coating on the surface, putting into a sand box after the coating is dried, filling sand and compacting, and putting into a pouring table with a vibration device; (2) putting ingot metal, intermediate alloy and other raw materials into an induction furnace for melting according to the mixture ratio, testing and adjusting ingredients after solution is uniform, then adjusting the pouring temperature, ensuring that the pouring temperature is about 30-40 DEG C higher than that of an alloy melting point and preparing to pour; (3) starting the vibration device, so that the vibration frequency is about 140-160 Hz, and the amplitude of vibration is about 4-6 mm and then pouring the solution in the step (2); and (4) sand-blasting, ultrasonic cleaning and conventional porcelain-baking after cooling and cleaning. The prepared artificial tooth has the advantages of excellent performance and good antibacterial effect.

Disclosed herein are medical devices, such as stents, coated with calcium phosphate and processes for making the same. The stent can comprise a cobalt chromium alloy that has been treated to improve surface adhesion to the calcium phosphate and/or improve surface finish properties. A pharmaceutically active agent can be present in the calcium phosphate coating.

A biocompatible metallic implant apparatus shaped to fit a natural contour of a shoulder joint, the implant having a cobalt-chrome convex outer surface, a porous concave inner surface and blades on the inner surface for insertion into bone. A locking screw through the implant adheres the implant to the shoulder joint.

A method of fabricating a medical implant component. The method may comprise producing a substrate from a first material in which the substrate has a bearing portion, and spraying particles of a second material by use of a thermal type spraying process onto at least the bearing portion of the substrate. The second material may be formed from a biocompatible material and a carbide source, in which the carbide source is 6.17% or more of the second material by weight. The biocompatible material may be cobalt chrome and the carbide source may be graphite. The thermal type spraying process may be a plasma spraying process or a high velocity oxygen fuel spraying process.

The invention discloses a method for preparing a high-hardness diamond film on the surface of medical cobalt-chrome-molybdenum (CoCrMo) alloy. The method comprises the following steps of: performing sputter-cleaning on polished and cleaned CoCrMo alloy by using hydrogen (H2) gas; depositing a silicon (Si) film transition layer on the surface of the CoCrMo alloy by taking silicane (SiH4) and hydrogen (H2) as a gas source by the conventional radio frequency plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition; and preparing a diamond like carbon (DLC) film on the Si film transition layer by taking methane (CH4) and hydrogen (H2) as a gas source by the conventional radio frequency plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition. Film bases prepared by the method are combined in a saw-toothed mode, good combination performance is represented between the film bases, and the defect of low boundary bearing capacity caused by low combination performance is overcome; meanwhile, the sp3C bond content of prepared DLC film is high, the DLC film with high hardness can be obtained and the wear resistance of the DLC film is effectively improved. In addition, the method has the advantages of simple process and low cost and has great application potential in the technical field of surface modification of a biomaterial.

The invention provides a method for preparing spherized cobalt-chromium-molybdenum alloy powder for micron-level additive material manufacturing. The adopted raw material is irregular cobalt-chromium-molybdenum alloy powder prepared through water atomization, and the micron-level spherical cobalt-chromium-molybdenum alloy powder with the irregular shape, the high nodularity larger than or equal to90%, the high sphericity degree and the high stacking density can be obtained through adjusted experiment parameter spheroidizing, and the spherical cobalt-chromium-molybdenum alloy powder can be directly used for additive material manufacturing due to good mobility.

Disclosed is a sputtering target and its application to the recording material of hard disks wherein the sputtering target comprises cobalt-platinum (CoPt), cobalt-chrome-platinum (CoCrPt) or cobalt-chrome-platinum-boron (CoCrPtB) and a combination of oxides. A recording material is formed by the sputtering target through the sputtering process as a high areal recording density hard disk, which essentially has silica oxide (SiO₂) and Cr₂O₃, wherein the amount of silica oxide (SiO₂) ranges from 4 to 8 atomic % and the amount of chromium oxide (Cr₂O₃) ranges from 0.8 atomic % to 5 atomic %. The present invention is characterized by Cr₂O₃ as an oxygen supplier during sputtering process to donate oxygen to the oxygen defects. The sputtering target containing the combination of oxides is used to form a recording material applied as a recording layer of magnetic recording medium of hard disks, resulting in enhancement of the areal recording density of medium storage.

The invention discloses a method for processing and preparing a medical small-diameter thin-wall cobalt-chromium pipe. The method comprises the following steps: 1, preparing a cobalt-chromium alloy ingot by adopting a vacuum induction melting method, and carrying out cogging and forging so as to obtain a cobalt-chromium ingot bar; 2, after cutting off the cobalt-chromium alloy bar according to a fixed length, carrying out excircle turning and drill hole machining in sequence so as to obtain a cobalt-chromium pipe blank; 3, carrying out incircle grinding on the cobalt-chromium pipe blank, and then carrying out multi-pass cold rotary forging; and 4, carrying out multi-pass drawing on the cobalt-chromium pipe blank subjected to multi-pass cold rotary forging, so as to obtain the cobalt-chromium pipe. According to the method disclosed by the invention, the conventional rolling process is replaced by cold rotary forging, so that the processing plasticity of the cobalt-chromium alloy pipe blank can be improved, the processing hardening phenomenon can be reduced, and the processing and forming can be facilitated; then, the quantity of annealing passes during processing can be reduced andthe processing efficiency can be improved; meanwhile, the surface quality of the cobalt-chromium pipe can be improved, and then the size of the cobalt-chromium pipe can be further reduced; and accordingly, the small-diameter thin-wall cobalt-chromium pipe for medical purposes can be acquired.

A method of fabricating a material having a high concentration of a carbide constituent. The method may comprise adding a carbide source to a biocompatible material in which a weight of the carbide source is at least approximately 10% of the total weight, heating the carbide source and the biocompatible material to a predetermined temperature to melt the biocompatible material and allow the carbide source to go into solution to form a molten homogeneous solution, and impinging the molten homogeneous solution with a high pressure fluid to form spray atomized powder having carbide particles. The size of a particle of carbide in the atomized powder may be approximately 900 nanometers or less. The biocompatible material may be cobalt chrome, the carbide source may be graphite, and the fluid may be a gas or a liquid.

The invention discloses a method for 3D printing of a rapidly renewable cobalt-chromium alloy coated tooth. Laser scanning is adopted to assist manufacturing of an individual false tooth model, by using a 3D printing technique, zirconium dioxide powder is mixed with a small amount of graphene and carbon nanotube powder to make a false tooth main body, cobalt-chromium alloy powder is mixed with a small amount of the graphene and the carbon nanotube powder to make a false tooth base which is small and large gradually, and coating treatment is carried out on the false tooth base. The problems that a pure metal material is not attractive in appearance, a pure ceramic material is too crispy and long in recovery period after implanting can be overcome, people can feel that a false tooth and gingiva grow together, and an individual false tooth which is high in precision, good in wearing resistance, good in acid-alkali resistance, high in mechanical strength and good in biocompatibility can befinally manufactured.