Surgery – Truss – Perineal
Patent
1983-04-08
1985-08-27
Pellegrino, Stephen C.
Surgery
Truss
Perineal
128 1R, 128DIG25, 285242, 285DIG22, A61F 500
Patent
active
045371830
ABSTRACT:
A connector device fluidly connects first and second sections of a highly elastic, highly compressible tubing of an implantable device such as an implantable penile prosthesis. The connector device includes a rigid connector component having a longitudinal main body with a fluid passage extending between first and second ends. The outer surface of the connector component includes a center surface section and first and second frusto-conical surfaces disposed at the first and second ends. The frusto-conical surfaces increase in diameter towards the center section, until the frusto-conical surfaces are larger in diameter than the center section. The tubing elastically engages the frusto-conical surfaces and a clamp surrounds the tubing preventing the tubing from "creeping" off the frusto-conical surfaces.
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Mentor Corporation
Pellegrino Stephen C.
Rooney Mark D.
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