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US 7,351,196 B2Granted
Incontinence strip for treating urinary incontinence
AssigneeAesculap AG
InventorsHelmut Goldmann, Erich K. Odermatt, Christine Weis, Werner Woelfle, Hansjoerg Melchior, Wolfgang Abele
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Abstract
The invention relates to a an incontinence strap (66) for treating urinary incontinence, in particular, urinary incontinence in females, that is configured such that it is flexible.
Claims42
An incontinence strap for treating urinary incontinence having two ends,
- wherein the incontinence strap is configured such that the incontinence strap is porous and flexible and arranged in a sheath,
- wherein each of the two ends of the strap have at least one attachment device,
- wherein the incontinence strap is reinforced in the vicinity of the at least one attachment device with a reinforcement, the reinforcement being formed by thermal bonding to the sheath thereby forming a ply,
- wherein another material is thermally bonded to the incontinence strap forming another ply,
- wherein the ends of the incontinence strap are encased in a casing which serves as a reinforcing material which in turn is encased in the sheath,
- wherein the casing has a lower melting point than the incontinence strap and acts as a thermoplastic bond joining the sheath to the incontinence strap in the vicinity of the attachment devices and acts as a filler for filling pores of the incontinence strap, and
- wherein the attachment devices have punched through holes.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.