Medical tubings made of a polymer material
AssigneeSolvay Advanced Polymers, L.L.C.
InventorsMohammad Jamal EL-HIBRI, Brian BALENO, Nikica MALJKOVIC, Bianca Sadicoff SHEMPER, Jean-Baptiste BONNADIER, Daniel J. IRELAND, Henri N. J. MASSILON
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Abstract
Medical tubing (T), such as a guidewire, a stent, a catheter or a hollow needle, made of a kinked rigid-rod polyarylene exhibiting a outstanding characteristics including high torqueability, high pushability and high flexibility and which can be easily thin-wall extruded under especially harsh conditions.
Claims8
1-10. (canceled)
A tubing comprising at least one kinked rigid-rod polyarylene of which more than 50 wt. % of the recurring units are recurring units (R) of one or more formulae consisting of an optionally substituted arylene group, provided said optionally substituted arylene group is linked by each of its two ends to two other optionally substituted arylene groups via a direct C—C linkage, said recurring units (R) being a mix consisting of:
- between 0 and 75 mole %, based on the total number of moles of the recurring units (R), of rigid rod-forming arylene units (Ra), said rigid rod-forming arylene units (Ra) being optionally substituted by at least one monovalent substituting group, and
- between 25 and 100 mole %, based on the total number of moles of the recurring units (R), of kink-forming arylene units (Rb), said kink-forming arylene units (Rb) being optionally substituted by at least one monovalent substituting group;
- wherein the tubing wall thickness is below 0.10 cm.
17-28. (canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.