Systems and Methods for Making Medical Devices

• US 20080004689A1
• Filed: 01/18/2007
• Published: 01/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Inventors: Scheinost, Jeff, Breen, Daniel, Jahnke, Linda
• Application Number:
  US11/624,435
• Publication Number:
  US 20080004689A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 623/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/39 Markers, e.g. radio-opaque or breast lesions markers
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/82 Devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents stent-grafts for tubular structures of the body other than blood vessels A61F2/04; stent-grafts for blood vessels A61F2/07; instruments specially adapted for placement or removal of stents or stent-grafts A61F2/95; for closing wounds, or holding wounds closed A61B17/04 - A61B17/115; dilators A61M29/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/9522 Means for mounting a stent or stent-graft onto or into a placement instrument
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/958 Inflatable balloons for placing stents or stent-grafts
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2250/0098 radio-opaque, e.g. radio-opaque markers
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 27/10 inserting fittings into hoses
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/50 for simulation or modelling of medical disorders

Abstract

Systems and methods for making medical devices are disclosed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

changing a dimension of a medical component or a medical device; and

collecting a parameter associated with the medical component or the medical device as a function of time.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the medical device comprises an endoprosthesis.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the medical device comprises a stent.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the endoprosthesis comprises a drug.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein changing the dimension comprises radially reducing the endoprosthesis.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the parameter is selected from the group consisting of a force applied to the endoprosthesis, a dimension of the endoprosthesis, and a change in a dimension of the endoprosthesis.

7. The method of claim 2, further comprising comparing the collected parameter to a selected parameter.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising validating the medical device based on a selected criterion.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the medical component comprises a marker.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein changing the dimension comprises radially reducing the marker.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the parameter is selected from the group consisting of a force applied to the marker, a dimension of the marker, and a change in a dimension of the marker.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising comparing the collected parameter to a selected parameter.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising validating the medical component based on a selected criterion.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the medical device comprises a medical balloon.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein changing the dimension comprises folding the balloon from a first configuration to a second configuration.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the parameter is selected from the group consisting of a force applied to the balloon, a dimension of the balloon, and a change in a dimension of the balloon.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising comparing the collected parameter to a selected parameter.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising validating the medical device based on a selected criterion.

19. A system, comprising:

a first apparatus capable of changing a dimension of a medical component or a medical device, and

a second apparatus operably interfaced with the first apparatus, the second apparatus being capable of collecting a parameter associated with the medical component or the medical device as a function of time.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the first apparatus comprises a stent crimper.

21. The system of claim 19, wherein the medical device comprises an endoprosthesis.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein the endoprosthesis comprises a drug.

23. The system of claim 19, wherein the parameter is selected from the group consisting of a force applied to the endoprosthesis, a dimension of the endoprosthesis, and a change in a dimension of the endoprosthesis.

24. The system of claim 19, wherein the medical component comprises a radiopaque marker.

25. The system of claim 24, wherein the parameter is selected from the group consisting of a force applied to the marker, a dimension of the marker, and a change in a dimension of the marker.

26. The system of claim 19, wherein the first apparatus comprises a balloon folding apparatus.

27. The system of claim 19, wherein the medical device comprises a medical balloon.

28. The system of claim 27, wherein the parameter is selected from the group consisting of a force applied to the balloon, a dimension of the balloon, and a change in a dimension of the balloon.