GB2340430B - Shape memory plastics articles and methods of processing same - Google Patents

Shape memory plastics articles and methods of processing same

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Publication number
GB2340430B
GB2340430B GB9812224A GB9812224A GB2340430B GB 2340430 B GB2340430 B GB 2340430B GB 9812224 A GB9812224 A GB 9812224A GB 9812224 A GB9812224 A GB 9812224A GB 2340430 B GB2340430 B GB 2340430B
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Prior art keywords
sleeve
tube
sliding over
pressure
article
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GB9812224A
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GB2340430A (en
GB9812224D0 (en
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Jonathan Anthony Lloyd
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Dental Root Filling Products Ltd
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Dental Root Filling Products Ltd
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C61/00—Shaping by liberation of internal stresses; Making preforms having internal stresses; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C61/06—Making preforms having internal stresses, e.g. plastic memory
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61L—METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES
    • A61L31/00—Materials for other surgical articles, e.g. stents, stent-grafts, shunts, surgical drapes, guide wires, materials for adhesion prevention, occluding devices, surgical gloves, tissue fixation devices
    • A61L31/04—Macromolecular materials
    • A61L31/048—Macromolecular materials obtained by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61L—METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS IN GENERAL; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS OR SURGICAL ARTICLES
    • A61L31/00—Materials for other surgical articles, e.g. stents, stent-grafts, shunts, surgical drapes, guide wires, materials for adhesion prevention, occluding devices, surgical gloves, tissue fixation devices
    • A61L31/14—Materials characterised by their function or physical properties, e.g. injectable or lubricating compositions, shape-memory materials, surface modified materials
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C48/00—Extrusion moulding, i.e. expressing the moulding material through a die or nozzle which imparts the desired form; Apparatus therefor
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C48/00—Extrusion moulding, i.e. expressing the moulding material through a die or nozzle which imparts the desired form; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C48/03—Extrusion moulding, i.e. expressing the moulding material through a die or nozzle which imparts the desired form; Apparatus therefor characterised by the shape of the extruded material at extrusion
    • B29C48/07—Flat, e.g. panels
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C48/00—Extrusion moulding, i.e. expressing the moulding material through a die or nozzle which imparts the desired form; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C48/03—Extrusion moulding, i.e. expressing the moulding material through a die or nozzle which imparts the desired form; Apparatus therefor characterised by the shape of the extruded material at extrusion
    • B29C48/09—Articles with cross-sections having partially or fully enclosed cavities, e.g. pipes or channels
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C48/00—Extrusion moulding, i.e. expressing the moulding material through a die or nozzle which imparts the desired form; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C48/03—Extrusion moulding, i.e. expressing the moulding material through a die or nozzle which imparts the desired form; Apparatus therefor characterised by the shape of the extruded material at extrusion
    • B29C48/13—Articles with a cross-section varying in the longitudinal direction, e.g. corrugated pipes
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29L—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASS B29C, RELATING TO PARTICULAR ARTICLES
    • B29L2031/00—Other particular articles
    • B29L2031/753—Medical equipment; Accessories therefor

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  • Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
  • Heart & Thoracic Surgery (AREA)
  • Surgery (AREA)
  • Vascular Medicine (AREA)
  • Epidemiology (AREA)
  • Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
  • Animal Behavior & Ethology (AREA)
  • General Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
  • Public Health (AREA)
  • Veterinary Medicine (AREA)
  • Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
  • Chemical Kinetics & Catalysis (AREA)
  • Materials For Medical Uses (AREA)
  • Compositions Of Macromolecular Compounds (AREA)
  • Dental Preparations (AREA)

Abstract

An article, for example a dental point, formed of a hydrophilic plastics material is capable of undergoing controlled radial expansion (d<SB>1</SB> to d<SB>2</SB>) upon hydration by aqueous media including body fluids without appreciable axial expansion. The hydrophilic plastics material is pre-stressed by application of pressure to its unhydrated form at a temperature in the range 100 to 160{C. It is then cooled to 40{C or less before release of the applied pressure. After cooling, the material may be machined to shape. Alternatively, pre-stressing can be carried out after shaping. Preferably, the pressure is applied by extruding the material through a die which may be maintained at the same temperature as that of the polymeric material. The article may also be used in engineering to develop gaskets for underwater use or as a tube or sleeve for sealing ruptured pipes; in electrical applications as a sleeve for sliding over electrical connectors; in medicine as a tube for sliding over limbs to immobilise broken bones and in vascular therapy as a tube or sleeve for sliding over arteries or for insertion into blood vessels or other body passages and cavities for opening up constrictions.
GB9812224A 1998-06-05 1998-06-05 Shape memory plastics articles and methods of processing same Expired - Lifetime GB2340430B (en)

Priority Applications (1)

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GB9812224A GB2340430B (en) 1998-06-05 1998-06-05 Shape memory plastics articles and methods of processing same

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GB9812224A GB2340430B (en) 1998-06-05 1998-06-05 Shape memory plastics articles and methods of processing same

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GB9812224D0 GB9812224D0 (en) 1998-08-05
GB2340430A GB2340430A (en) 2000-02-23
GB2340430B true GB2340430B (en) 2000-09-06

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Families Citing this family (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE10021605A1 (en) * 2000-05-04 2001-11-08 Upmeyer Hans Juergen Dental filler, especially useful as root canal filler, contains additive(s) which expand when filler hardens
GB0309317D0 (en) 2003-04-24 2003-06-04 Dental Root Filling Products L Composition
GB0415981D0 (en) * 2004-07-16 2004-08-18 Dental Root Filling Products L Composition

Citations (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB1566552A (en) * 1976-09-28 1980-05-08 Highgate D J Swellable polymers
GB2139898A (en) * 1983-05-09 1984-11-21 Donald James Highgate Deformable polymeric compositions

Patent Citations (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB1566552A (en) * 1976-09-28 1980-05-08 Highgate D J Swellable polymers
GB2139898A (en) * 1983-05-09 1984-11-21 Donald James Highgate Deformable polymeric compositions

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