Surgery – Truss – Perineal
Patent
1978-11-08
1980-11-25
Trapp, Lawrence W.
Surgery
Truss
Perineal
A61F 500
Patent
active
042352274
ABSTRACT:
An artificial corpus cavernosum device which is designed to be implanted into the impaired penis of a patient for the remedy of his impotence and which comprises an at least one artificial corpus cavernosum penis of elongated tubular pouch made of an artificial thin membrane to be implanted into the penis and for selectively receiving and being filled with a fluid therein for erecting the penis, a container means made of an artificial thin membrane for storing said fluid under the normal condition when the penis is not inflated and hence not erected, the container means being implantable into the scrotum, a slenderized conduit means for connecting said at least one artificial corpus cavernosum penis to said container means in fluid communication with one another, and a check valve interposed in fluid communication with said container means and having a valve member provided with a through-hole(s) for allowing said fluid once forcibly delivered from said container means to pass to said artificial corpus cavernosum penis and to return to said container means again little by little through said through-hole(s).
REFERENCES:
patent: 3853122 (1974-12-01), Strauch
patent: 3954102 (1976-05-01), Buuck
patent: 4009711 (1977-03-01), Uson
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