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Calcium phosphate porous sintered body and production thereof
Assignee: Coorstek KK
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Filing: 2000-04-13
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Granted: 2002-01-22
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Expires: 2020-04-13
Abstract
Abstract A calcium phosphate porous sintered body which comprises spherical pores communicating with one another substantially throughout the body with a porosity of 55% or more and 90% or less, and has an average diameter of the inter-pore communicating parts of 50 mum or more, a pore diameter of 150 mum or more, and a three-point bending strength of 5 MPa or more, and a method for producing the same.
Inventors
- 👤 Kohichi Imura
- 👤 Hideo Uemoto
- 👤 Akimichi Hojo
- 👤 Junzo Tanaka
- 👤 Masanori Kikuchi
- 👤 Yasushi Suetsugu
- 👤 Hiraku Yamazaki
- 👤 Masami Kinoshita
- 👤 Nobuaki Minowa
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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2026-11-08 22:35
CPC Classifications
C; C04; C04B; C04B35/00; C04B35/01; C04B35/447; A; A61; A61L; A61L27/00; A61L27/02; A61L27/12; A61L27/50; A61L27/56; C04B38/00; C04B38/06; C04B38/0615; C04B38/062; C04B2111/00; C04B2111/00474; C04B2111/00612
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 16
Claim 1
Independent Claim
69 words
A calcium phosphate porous sintered body having a porous structure which comprises roughly spherical pores communicating with one another substantially throughout the body with a porosity of 55% or more and 90% or less, and has an average diameter of the inter-pore communicating parts of 50 μm or more in average, a pore diameter of 150 μm or more, and a three-point bending strength of 5 MPa or more.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
69 words
A calcium phosphate porous sintered body having a porous structure which comprises roughly spherical pores communicating with one another substantially throughout the body with a porosity of 55% or more and 90% or less, and has an average diameter of the inter-pore communicating parts of 50 μm or more in average, a pore diameter of 150 μm or more, and a three-point bending strength of 5 MPa or more.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
66 words
A calcium phosphate porous sintered body according to claim 1 wherein the skeleton part of the calcium phosphate porous sintered body consists of a substantially densed calcium phosphate sintered body, its surface part has fine irregularities or a layer consisting of the calcium phosphate porous sintered body, and the specific surface area of the calcium phosphate porous sintered body is 0.1 m 2 /g or more.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
100 words
A calcium phosphate porous sintered body according to claim 1 wherein the calcium phosphate porous sintered body is mainly composed of at least one of compounds of the calcium phosphate group consisting of CaHPO 1 , Ca 3 (PO 4 ) 2 , Ca 5 (PO 4 ) 3 OH, Ca 4 O(PO 4 ) 2 , Ca 10 (PO 4 ) 6 (OH) 2 , CaP 4 O 11 , Ca(PO 3 ) 2 , Ca 2 P 2 O 7 , Ca(H 2 PO 4 ) 2 , and Ca(H 2 PO 4 ) 2 .H 2 O.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
95 words
A calcium phosphate porous sintered body according to claim 3 wherein the component Ca is partially substituted by at least one selected from Sr, Ba, Mg, Fe, Al, Y, La, Na, K, Ag, Pd, Zn, Pb, Cd, H and other rare earth metals, the component (PO 4 ) is partially substituted by at least one selected from VO 4 , BO 3 , SO 4 , CO 3 , and SiO 4 , and the component (OH) is partially substituted by at least one selected from F, Cl, O, CO 3 , I and Br.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
43 words
A calcium phosphate porous sintered body according to claim 1 wherein the calcium phosphate porous sintered body consists of a calcium phosphate which is any of crystalline, homogeneous solid solution, substitutional solid solution or interstitial solid solution, and can include a non-stoichiometric defect.
Claim 7
Independent Claim
104 words
A method for producing a calcium phosphate porous sintered body which comprises steps of preparing a slurry by dispersing and/or dissolving calcium phosphate powder and an organic polymer material which is hardenable by cross-linking polymerization in a solvent; adding a foaming agent to the slurry and foaming it to a prescribed volume by stirring and/or gas introduction to lay the slurry in a foamed state; adding a cross-linking agent and/or a cross-linking initiator to the foamed slurry followed by mixing, introducing the resulting mixture to a die, and hardening it by cross-linking polymerization to form a compact; and drying the compact followed by sintering.
Claim 8
Independent Claim
104 words
A method for producing a calcium phosphate porous sintered body which comprises steps of preparing a slurry by dispersing and/or dissolving calcium phosphate powder and an organic polymer material which is hardenable by cross-linking polymerization in a solvent; adding a foaming agent to the slurry and foaming it to a prescribed volume by stirring and/or gas introduction to lay the slurry in a foamed state; adding a cross-linking agent and/or a cross-linking initiator to the foamed slurry followed by mixing, introducing the resulting mixture to a die, and hardening it by cross-linking polymerization to form a compact; and drying the compact followed by sintering.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
73 words
A method for producing a calcium phosphate porous sintered body according to claim 6 wherein the organic material hardenable by cross-linking polymerization is a linear, branch or block polymer containing amino group of polyacrylamide, polyethylene imine or polypropylene imine, and the cross-linking agent is an epoxidized compound having two or more epoxy groups of sorbitol polyglycydyl ether, polyglycerol polyglycydyl ether, pentaerythritol polyglycydyl ether, diglycerol polyglycydyl ether, glycerol polyglycydyl ether or polymethylolpropane polyglycydyl ether.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
44 words
A method for producing a calcium phosphate porous sintered body according to claim 6 wherein the surface of the skeleton part of the calcium phosphate porous sintered body is etched with an acid to provide fine irregularities on the surface of the skeleton part.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
50 words
A method for producing a calcium phosphate porous sintered body according to claim 8 wherein the etching step with the acid consists of the step of carrying the acid into the pores of the calcium phosphate porous sintered body set within an acid passage so as to block the passage.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
76 words
The method for producing a calcium phosphate porous sintered body according to claim 6 further comprising adhering a slurry containing a calcium phosphate powder to the surface of the skeleton part consisting of a substantially densed calcium phosphate sintered body of the calcium phosphate porous sintered body, drying and sintering to provide a layer of the substantially densed calcium phosphate sintered body on the surface of the skeleton part of the calcium phosphate porous sintered body.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
74 words
The method for producing a calcium phosphate porous sintered body according to claim 6 further comprising adhering a slurry containing a calcium phosphate powder to the surface of the skeleton part consisting of a substantially densed calcium phosphate sintered body of the calcium phosphate porous sintered body, drying and sintering to provide a layer of the calcium phosphate sintered body on the surface of the skeleton part of the calcium phosphate porous sintered body.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
102 words
A method for producing a calcium phosphate porous sintered body according to claim 6 wherein the calcium phosphate powder is mainly composed of at least one of compounds of the calcium phosphate group consisting of CaHPO 4 , Ca 3 (PO 4 ) 2 , Ca 5 (PO 4 ) 3 OH, Ca 4 O(PO 4 ) 2 , Ca 10 (PO 4 ) 6 (OH) 2 , CaP 4 O 11 , Ca(PO 3 ) 2 , Ca(H 2 PO 4 ) 2 , Ca 2 P 2 O 7 , and Ca(H 2 PO 4 ) 2 .H 2 O.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
99 words
A method for producing a calcium phosphate porous sintered body according to claim 12 wherein the component Ca is partially substituted by at least one selected from Sr, Ba, Mg, Fe, Al, Y, La, Na, K, Ag, Pd, Zn, Pb, Cd, H and other rare earth metals, the component (PO 4 ) is partially substituted by at least one selected from VO 4 , BO 3 , SO 4 , CO 3 , and SiO 4 , and the component (OH) is partially substituted by at least one selected from F, Cl, O, CO 3 , I, and Br.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
45 words
A method for producing a calcium phosphate porous sintered body according to claim 6 wherein the calcium phosphate powder consists of a calcium phosphate, which is any of crystalline, homogeneous solid solution, substitutional solid solution and interstitial solid solution, and can include a non-stoichiometric defect.
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