Method and apparatus for manufacturing medical support devices
OwnerAbraham Baum, Elisha Hoch +4inventors
InventorsAbraham Baum, Elisha Hoch, Israel Schnitzer, Lior Kacir, Felix Rabinovich, Ilia Reuben
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Abstract
Method for producing a medical support device from an object, using an electromagnetic field generator, whereby the method comprises of the steps of placing a formation mandrel against the object, close to a predetermined formation area, and applying the electromagnetic field to the formation area, thereby forming the object. The produced object can be made from a tubular segment, a folded sheet of material or a plurality of wires joined together.
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Method for producing a medical support device from at least one object, using an electromagnetic field generator, the method comprising the steps of:
- placing a forming mandrel against said at least one object in the vicinity of a predetermined formation area;
- and
- applying at least one electromagnetic field on said formation area, thereby forming the shape of said at least one object.
Method for producing a medical support device from a tubular object, the tubular object being hollow, the method comprising the steps of:
- placing a predetermined mandrel against each of a plurality of formation areas;
- and
- applying at least one electromagnetic field on each said formation areas, thereby forming said tubular object at each said formation areas.
Medical support device comprising a tubular object, said tubular object including a plurality of openings, wherein at least selected ones of said openings were electromagnetically formed.
Medical support device comprising a sheet of conductive material, said sheet of conductive material being folded so as to provide a tubular object, where one edge of said sheet of conductive material overlaps another edge of said sheet of conductive material, thereby defining an overlapping section, wherein said overlapping edges are joined by means of electromagnetic forming.
Medical support device comprising a sheet of conductive material, said sheet of conductive material comprising a plurality of openings, said openings being formed by electromagnetic forming, said sheet of conductive material being folded so as to provide a tubular object, where one edge of said sheet of conductive material overlaps another edge of said sheet of conductive material, thereby defining an overlapping section.
Method for producing a medical support device from a sheet of formable material, the method comprising the steps of:
- placing a predetermined mandrel against a plurality of formation areas;
- and
- applying at least one electromagnetic field on each said formation areas, thereby forming said sheet at each said formation areas.
Method for producing a medical support device comprising the steps of:
- placing a plurality of wires wherein at least a section of each said wires overlaps a section of at least another of said wires, each said overlapping section defining an intersection area;
- and
- applying at least one electromagnetic field on the overlapping wires of each said intersection area, thereby joining each said wires at said intersection area.
Medical support device comprising a plurality of wires, each said wires intersecting with at least another of said wires, thereby defining a plurality of intersection points, thereby forming a mesh, said mesh having the shape of a cylinder
- wherein at least selected ones of said intersecting wires are joined to the wires intersecting therewith, by means of electromagnetic forming process.
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