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US 10,470,935 B2Granted
Skin closure systems and devices of improved flexibility and stretchability for bendable joints
AssigneeEthicon, Inc.
InventorsJulian Quintero, Kevin S. Weadock, Leo B. Kriksunov, Robert J. Tannhauser
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Abstract
A system or device for skin closure comprises an elastic flat flexible tape elongated along a longitudinal axis and having a lower side and an opposing upper side, said tape having a pressure sensitive adhesive on at least a portion of the lower side, said tape having a plurality of openings arranged side-by-side with spaces between said openings oriented across the longitudinal axis.
Claims17
A system for skin closure, comprising
- a) an elastic flat flexible tape elongated along a longitudinal axis and having a lower side, an opposing upper side and a width;
- said tape having a pressure sensitive adhesive on at least a portion of the lower side;
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- said tape having a plurality of openings having a length and an openings width and arranged side-by-side and across said longitudinal axis with spaces between said openings oriented across the longitudinal axis and wherein said length of the openings is at least 60% of the width of the tape and wherein the openings width is at least 5% of the length of the openings;
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- b) a polymerizable adhesive,
- wherein application of the polymerizable adhesive onto the openings renders said device substantially not stretchable in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis to keep a wound or an incision closed and skin area around the wound or incision in apposed arrangement, but stretchable in the direction along the longitudinal axis.
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