US 11,850,158 B2
Orthopedic surgical implant device with porous material and fluid channels for cleaning the porous material
Vincent Abel Maurice Simoes, Locmaria Plouzané (FR); Florence Delphine Muriel Maillé, Locmaria Plouzané (FR); and Sergii Poltaretskyi, Plougonvelin (FR)
Assigned to Howmedica Osteonics Corp., Mahwah, NJ (US)
Filed by HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP., Mahwah, NJ (US)
Filed on Apr. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/242,004.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/029,932, filed on May 26, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0369465 A1, Dec. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. A61F 2/40 (2006.01); A61F 2/30 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/4081 (2013.01) [A61F 2/3094 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30011 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30578 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30691 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30985 (2013.01)] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A surgical implant device comprising:
a body comprising a top portion formed of a solid material that is non-porous and a bottom portion formed of a porous material, wherein the porous material is configured to promote bone ingrowth and is porous to a fluid; and
one or more fluid channels formed in the body, wherein at least a portion of the one or more fluid channels pass through the solid material of the top portion of the body and wherein the one or more channels define a fluidic path that exits into the porous material,
wherein the one or more fluid channels include a ring-shaped channel through the body, and
wherein the one or more fluid channels define an inlet to the ring-shaped channel and a plurality of outlets from the ring-shaped channel arranged to deliver the fluid into the porous material at different locations.