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Automated manufacturing device and method for biomaterial fusion

  • US 20070003653A1
  • Filed: 02/15/2005
  • Published: 01/04/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2002
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A device adapted to manufacture a sutureless bioprosthetic stent graft, comprising:

  • a mandrel having a selected diameter and adapted to have positioned thereon a stent graft having a biomaterial sheath; and

    an energy irradiation controller, including;

    an energy irradiator, a mapper operative to generate a three-dimensional target site map of a target site, a patternizer operative to synchronize an irradiating pattern with the three-dimensional target site map, and an energy director configured to substantially automatically direct energy from an energy irradiator to the target site in accordance with the irradiating pattern to weld together the biomaterial sheath.

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