Owner Dimicron, Inc.

Inventors Pope, Bill J.; Dixon, Richard H.; Taylor, Jeffery K.; Gardinier, Clayton F.; Medford, Troy; Blackburn, Dean C.; Carvajal, Victorian; Harding, David P.

Agent Fisher Adams Kelly

Pub. Number AU-A-2011237440

PCT Pub. Number WO2011/127321

Priority 12/756,818 08.04.10 US

Filing date 7 April 2011

Wipo publication date 13 October 2011

A61F 2/30 Filters - Joints

A61F 2/32 Filters - for the hip

A61F 2/44 Filters - for the spine, e.g. vertebrae, spinal discs

A61L 27/02 Materials for prostheses or for coating prostheses

A61L 27/06 Materials for prostheses or for coating prostheses

A61L 27/08 Materials for prostheses or for coating prostheses

A61L 27/30 Materials for prostheses or for coating prostheses

B22F 3/10 Manufacture of workpieces or articles from metallic powder characterised by the manner of compacting or sintering - Sintering only

B29C 43/00 Compression moulding, i.e. applying external pressure to flow the moulding material

C04B 35/653 Shaped ceramic products characterised by their composition

C22C 26/00 Alloys containing diamond

C22C 29/10 Alloys based on carbides, oxides, borides, nitrides or silicides, e.g. cermets, or other metal compounds, e. g. oxynitrides, sulfides

A61F 2/00 Filters

A61F 2/34 Filters

A61F 2/36 Filters - Femoral heads

A61F 2/46 Filters - Special tools for implanting artificial joints