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(11)    Patent No :    AP 2003   
(21)    Application No :    AP/P/2005/003252   
(22)    Filing Date :    22.09.2003   
(24)    Date of Grant &    18.05.2009   
           
(45)    Publication :

(30)  Priority Data       
(33) Country    (31) Number    (32) Date
US    60/411,989    19.09.2002
US    60/411,994    19.09.2002

(84)    Designated State

GM    GH   KE   LS   MW  MZ   SL   SD   SZ

T Z   UG   ZM   ZW
 

(73) Applicant(s)

REDDY Alla .V. K, 9 Webster Court, Plainsboro, NJ-08536, United States of America

ALLA Madhusudhan Reddy, 9 Webster Court, Plainsboro, NJ-08536,
United States of America

ALLA Raghunatha Reddy, 9 Webster Court, Plainsboro,
NJ- 08536,
(72) Inventors
United States of America

REDDY Alla .V. K, United States of America

ALLA Madhusudhan Reddy, United States of

America

ALLA Raghunatha Reddy, United States of America

et al

(74) Representative

COGHLAN, WELSH & GUEST

ZIMBABWE

(51)    International  Classification   A61F 6/06 (2006.01)

(54)    Title

Female condom

(57)    Abstract

A female condom (100, 200, 300, 700) having a highly elastic resilient pouch (104, 204, 304, 704) that is able to stretch from an original contracted configuration into an elongated configuration and then return to the original contracted configuration. The pouch (104, 204, 304, 704) may be fashioned with regular convolutions (112) that act in a spring-like manner for biasing the

condom (100) into the contracted configuration. Elastic biasing members (124) may be incorporated into the instruction of the condom for providing or augmenting the spring-like action of the condom (100). The condom of the invention may include a contoured V-shaped outer frame (102) which also may have a spring bias incorporated. The outer frame (102) may flex so as to better retain contact with the anatomy of the female when the condom is


(56)    Documents Cited :    US 60 35853 A   US 5 176 152 A