Woven fabric with carbon nanotube strands
AssigneeCook Medical Technologies LLC
InventorsJames M. Carlson, Shyam S. V. Kuppurathanam
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Abstract
A woven fabric for an implantable medical device includes a plurality of carbon nanotube strands interwoven with a plurality of textile strands, where each carbon nanotube strand comprises a plurality of carbon nanotubes. An implantable medical device comprises a component and a fabric secured to the component, where the fabric includes a plurality of woven carbon nanotube strands, and each of the carbon nanotube strands comprises a plurality of carbon nanotubes.
Claims18
A woven fabric for an implantable medical device, the woven fabric comprising a plurality of carbon nanotube strands interwoven with a plurality of textile strands, wherein each of the carbon nanotube strands comprises a plurality of carbon nanotubes and has a denier of from about 0.1 to about 50, and wherein the carbon nanotube strands comprise less than about 50% of a total number of strands of the woven fabric.
An implantable medical device comprising:
- a component;
- a fabric secured to the component, the fabric comprising a plurality of textile strands interwoven with a plurality of woven carbon nanotube strands, wherein each of the carbon nanotube strands comprises a plurality of carbon nanotubes and has a denier of from about 0.1 to about 50, and wherein the carbon nanotube strands comprise less than about 50% of a total number of strands of the woven fabric.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.