Method and apparatus for manufacturing medical support devices
AssigneeIsrael Aircraft Industries Ltd.
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.
Claims9
A method for producing a medical support device capable of insertion into the body, the method comprising the steps of:
- positioning an object having an original physical configuration in the vicinity of an electromagnetic field generator and substantially proximate a forming mandrel, said forming mandrel having a mandrel physical configuration;
- inducing electromagnetic forces in said object which accelerate said object toward said forming mandrel;
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- changing said original physical configuration to a second physical configuration, said second physical configuration being influenced by said mandrel's physical configuration.
A method for producing a medical support device capable of insertion into the body, the method comprising the steps of:
- positioning an object having an original physical configuration in the vicinity of an electromagnetic field generator and substantially proximate a forming mandrel, said forming mandrel having a mandrel physical configuration;
- inducing electromagnetic forces in said object which accelerate the said object towards the said forming mandrel;
- and
- changing the said original physical configuration to a second physical configuration, said second physical configuration being influenced by said mandrels physical configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.