Patent ID: 7901415

Claim:
Tension-free elastic tape for the surgical treatment of female urinary incontinence, comprising: the tape having a textile structure in the form of a knitted fabric, wherein the textile structure enables the ingrowth of the connective tissue, whereby the textile structure of the tape is comprised of a first thread pattern of base threads, whereby the tape has longitudinal edges, whereby threads running along the edges of the tape in a direction parallel to a longitudinal direction of the tape form edge threads, and the edge threads form loops that project laterally in a plane of the tape beyond the edge of the tape without open ends from the longitudinal edges of the thread pattern of base threads, the loops having loop openings of about 0.02 to 1.0 mm 2 at the longitudinal edges of the tape for a primary anchoring of the tape in the tissue and whereby the edge threads are directly and firmly incorporated in the structure of the first thread pattern of said base threads.