# US 2014/0194926 A1 · Umbilical hernia prosthesis > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2014/0194926 A1 - Document ID: US20140194926A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 14/232,390 - Filed: 2012-06-29 - Published: 2014-07-10 - Earliest claimed: 2011-07-13 - Assignees: Sofradim Production - Inventors: Pierre Bailly; Gaëtan Romuald - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140194926A1 ## CPC - A61F 2/0063: {Implantable repair or support meshes, e.g. hernia meshes} - A61B 17/0057: {Implements for plugging an opening in the wall of a hollow or tubular organ, e.g. for sealing a vessel puncture or closing a cardiac septal defect (sutures A61B17/04; closing rectum or urethra near body surface A61F2/0009)} - A61B 17/04: for suturing wounds; Holders or packages for needles or suture materials - A61B 17/06: Needles {; Sutures; Needle-suture combinations}; Holders or packages for needles or suture materials - A61B 2017/00597: {Implements comprising a membrane} - A61B 2017/00623: {Introducing or retrieving devices therefor} - A61B 2017/0496: {for tensioning sutures} - A61F 2210/0014: using shape memory or superelastic materials, e.g. nitinol - A61F 2250/0031: made from both resorbable and non-resorbable prosthetic parts, e.g. adjacent parts - A61F 2250/0097: Visible markings, e.g. indicia - A61F: FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS (dental prosthetics A61C) - A61B: DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (usefulness limited to only animals A61D) ## Abstract The present disclosure relates to a prosthesis comprising: -at least one flexible mesh delimited by a peripheral exterior edge, -at least two tongues extending from one face of the mesh, and -at least one member for reinforcing said mesh, characterized in that said reinforcing member takes the form of a frame fastened to said mesh and substantially adopting the shape of said peripheral exterior edge of the mesh, said frame being set back from said peripheral exterior edge and being provided with two hinge points, the line passing through said two hinge points also passing through the centre of the mesh and thus forming a line or folding the mesh in two. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A prosthesis comprising: at least one flexible mesh delimited by a peripheral exterior edge, at least two tongues extending from one face of the mesh, and at least one reinforcing member which takes the form of a frame fastened to said mesh and substantially adopting the shape of said peripheral exterior edge of the mesh, said frame being set back from said peripheral exterior edge and being provided with two hinge points, a line passing through said two hinge points also passing through the centre of the mesh for folding the mesh in two. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The prosthesis according to claim 1, wherein the frame set back from the peripheral external edge is of serpentine shape forming undulations. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The prosthesis according to claim 2, wherein said frame takes the form of a flat ribbon forming undulations substantially in a plane of said mesh. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The prosthesis according to claim 1, wherein said reinforcing member is produced in bioresorbable material. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The prosthesis according to claim 1, wherein said tongues have a globally rectangular shape and are provided at one of their ends with a widened part by of which said tongues are fixed to said mesh. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The prosthesis according to claim 1, wherein said tongues are a textile. ### Claim 7 (depends on 5) The prosthesis according to claim 5, wherein the widened part being separate from the rest of the tongue, said widened part is produced in gripping textile so that said widened part may be fastened to and/or unfastened from the rest of the tongue at will. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The prosthesis according to claim 1, wherein said two tongues are fixed symmetrically to either side of said folding line. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The prosthesis according to claim 1, wherein said mesh is disc-shaped, said frame being substantially in the form of a circular ring, said tongues are fixed at two diametrically opposite places of said ring, said two places being spaced by 90° from each of said two hinge points. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The prosthesis according to claim 9, wherein the face of the mesh including said two tongues has two additional tongues fixed to the mesh at the location of two hinge points of the ring. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The prosthesis according to claim 1, wherein the face of the mesh opposite that including said tongues is covered by a non-adherent coating. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The prosthesis according to claim 1, wherein the free ends of the tongues are joined together by means of a centering thread. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The prosthesis (200; 210) according to claim 1, wherein at least a portion of the tongues is of a colour different from that of the mesh. ### Claim 14 (depends on 5) The prosthesis according to claim 5, wherein the widened parts of the tongues are of a colour different from that of the mesh. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The prosthesis according to claim 1, wherein said mesh being disc-shaped and said frame being substantially in the form of a circular ring, said prosthesis comprises four of said tongues, the widened parts of which being of a colour different from that of the mesh, said four widened parts being distributed along an interior contour of said ring, symmetrically with respect to said folding line two of said widened parts on one side of said folding line, the other two of said widened parts on the other side of said folding line. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) The prosthesis according to claim 1, wherein all four widened parts are under the form of isosceles triangles of textile, each triangle being fixed to said mesh via its base, all four triangles showing identical elongation and tensile strength properties in the centripetal direction.