Delivery Device for Delivering a Self-Expanding Stent

• US 20090048656A1
• Filed: 11/07/2006
• Published: 02/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lei Jin, Ning Wen
• Original Assignee: Lei Jin, Ning Wen
• Inventors: Wen, Ning
• Application Number:
  US12/093,197
• Publication Number:
  US 20090048656A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 623/1.120
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/2418 Scaffolds therefor, e.g. support stents
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/2439 Expansion controlled by filaments
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/9517 handle assemblies therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2002/9511 the retaining means being filaments or wires
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2230/0054 V-shaped
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2230/0091 helically-coiled or spirally-coiled, i.e. having a 2-D spiral cross-section

Abstract

The present invention provides a delivery device for self-expanding stent. The delivery device includes pipe head, inner pipe, near end controller, medium pipe, texturing tube, external protection apparatus, at least one locked coil and at least one stayguy. The external protection apparatus is a tearable external protection apparatus or a flexible connects collar hold-down mechanism or a stayguy hold-down mechanism. The present invention has a plenty of following advantages: to locate the stent rotarily, to fix the expanded stent effectively, to reduce the valvular abrasion of artificial cardiac stent, to reduce the abrasion of stayguy, to avoid the dislocation of stayguy and so on.

Claims

1. A delivery device for delivering a self-expanding stent comprising

a pipe head, an inner pipe, a near-end controller, a medium pipe, a texturing tube, an external protection apparatus, at least one locked coil and one stayguy;

said pipe head, inner pipe and near-end controller being interconnected in order and communicated each other;

a sleeve pipe of the medium pipe sliding along the inner pipe;

said texturing tube being installed in an incorporated body of the pipe head, inner pipe and near-end controller;

said external protection system enveloping the outside of the inner and medium pipes;

said locked coil and stayguy thread going through the inner pipe and a near-end controller, which are incorporated together.

2. The delivery device of claim 1, wherein the inner pipes is a long tube structure having at least one pore space for passing various strings and threads through in the inner pipe and at least one lateral opening is installed in the far-end of the inner pipe.

3. The delivery device of claim 2, wherein at least one texturing tube, through which various strings and threads pass, is installed in the inner pipe, each texturing pipe is able to slide with the other and with the inner pipe.

4. The delivery device of claim 2, wherein at least one texturing tube, through which various strings and threads pass, is installed in the inner pipe, the texturing pipes are set to affix with other texturing pipes and inner pipes and cannot slide along each other.

5. The delivery device of claim 2, wherein a braided strengthening net can be installed in the intermediate layer of the inner pipe, a lateral opening of the inner pipe can be located in one of meshes of the braided strengthening net.

9. The delivery device of claim 1, wherein a close segment of the medium pipe connects with a lateral pipe, one stayguy is set up in the medium pipe, the far-end of the stayguy is fixed on a far-end port of the medium pipe, a near-end of the stayguy is drawn out from the lateral pipe of the close segment of the medium pipe, a fixed point of the far-end of the stayguy and the lateral pipe of the close segment of the medium pipe are set up at a same plane, side each port of the near-end of the medium pipe and each port of the lateral pipe have a shrink-ring, which can slide along the inner pipe when it is loosened and be fixed on certain position of the inner pipe when tightened.

11. The delivery device of claim 1, wherein the external protection apparatus is a take-up and hold-down mechanism, which contains at least one locked coil, at least one connect collar linking to the stent, at least one take-up wire used for compressing the stent, a take-up collar is set up on a far-end of the take-up wire, after it is locked at its far-end by the take-up collar, the take-up wire passes through the lateral opening of the inner pipe and wraps between the connect collar on the locked coil, stent and the outboard stent, forming a hold-down mechanism which can be locked or unlocked as the case might be, the near-end of the take-up wire is drawn out of the near-end of the implantation system and is fixed onto the near-end controller of the implantation system temporarily.

12. The delivery device of claim 11, wherein one take-up wire and one connect collar are installed, the connect collar is a closed line eye or a closed flexible connect collar linking to the stent, locked at its far-end cycle by the locked coil, the take-up wire passes through the closed line eye or the closed flexible connect collar on the same section of the stent and rounds the locked coil in the inner pipe to form a semi-cycle of take-up wire, in the end, it circles outside the stent once and wraps to form a hold-down mechanism which can be locked or unlocked as it depends at a certain section of the stent.

13. The delivery device of claim 11, wherein one take-up wire and one connect collar are installed. The connect collar is a closed line eye or a closed flexible connect collar linking to the stent, locked at its far-end cycle by the locked coil, the take-up wire passes through the closed line eye or the closed flexible connect collar on the same section of the stent and rounds the locked coil in the inner pipe to form a semi-cycle of take-up wire. In the end, it circles outside the stent twice in both directions and wraps to form a hold-down mechanism which can be locked or unlocked as it might be at a certain section of the stent.

14. The delivery device of claim 11, wherein one take-up wire and two connect collars are installed, the two connect collars are placed by a hold-down mechanism of flexible connect collar on the stent, the hold-down mechanism of flexible connect collar circles the stent under radial compression in less than one lap, forming two opposite free cycles as the connect collars. Locked at its far-end cycle by the locked coil, the take-up wire passes through the two free cycles of the hold-down mechanism of the flexible connect collar and rounds the locked coil in the inner pipe to form a semi-cycle of the take-up wire, forming a hold-down mechanism which can be locked or unlocked as it depends at a certain section of the stent.

15. The delivery device of claim 11, wherein one take-up wire and several connect collars are installed, several connect collars are provided by a hold-down mechanism of flexible connect collar on the stent, the hold-down mechanism of flexible connect collar circles the stent under radial compression in less than one lap, forming two opposite free cycles as the connect collars. Locked at its far-end cycle by the locked coil, the take-up wire passes through two opposite free cycles of the hold-down mechanism of the closed line eye or the flexible connect collar at different sections of the stent one after another and carries out lockable and undone circles, forming a continuous multi-sectional hold-down mechanism.

16. The delivery device of claim 11, wherein one take-up wire and several connect collars are installed, several connect collars are provided by a hold-down mechanism of flexible connect collar on the multi-sectional stent, every hold-down mechanism of the flexible connect collar circles the stent under radial compression in less than one lap, forming two opposite free cycles as the connect collars, locked at its far-end cycle by the locked coil, the take-up wire wraps the stent at different lockable and undone sections in one direction and comes back along the same course to warp the lockable and undone stent for the second time, forming a continuous multi-sectional hold-down mechanism. In the process of the winding, the take-up wire rounds the locked coil in the inner pipe to form a semi-cycle of the take-up wire.

17. The delivery device of claim 11, wherein two take-up wires and several connect collars are installed, several connect collars are provided by a hold-down mechanism of the flexible connect collar on the multi-sectional stent, every hold-down mechanism of the flexible connect collar circles the stent under radial compression in less than one lap, forming two opposite free cycles as the connect collars, locked at their far-end cycles by the locked coil, the two take-up wires wrap the stent at different lockable and undone sections in opposite symmetrical directions, forming a continuous multi-sectional hold-down mechanism. In the process of the winding, two take-up wires round the locked coil in the inner pipe, forming two semi-cycles of the take-up wires, respectively.

18. The delivery device of claim 11, wherein two take-up wires and several connect collars are installed, several connect collars are provided by a hold-down mechanism of the flexible connect collar on the multi-sectional stent, every hold-down mechanism of the flexible connect collar circles the stent under radial compression in less than one lap, forming two opposite free cycles as the connect collars, locked at their far-end cycles by the locked coil, the two take-up wires wrap the stent at different sections lockably and unlockably in one of the opposite symmetrical directions and come back along the same course to wrap the stent lockably and unlockably for the second time. In the end, they form a continuous multi-sectional hold-down mechanism. In the process of the winding, two take-up wires round the locked coil in the inner pipe to form semi-cycles of the take-up wire, respectively.

19. The delivery device of the self-expanding stent of claim 14, wherein the hold-down mechanism of the flexible connect collar is a flexible connect collar with two free cycles whose fixed point circles and ties to a cross-point of mesh wires, two free cycles extend bilaterally along the outside superficial circularity of the stent and circle the stent under radial compression in less than one lap to form an opposite condition.

20. The delivery device of the self-expanding stent of claim 14 wherein the hold-down mechanism of the flexible connect collar contains several flexible connect collars, the fixed points of two flexible connect collars among them circle and tie to the same cross-point of the mesh wires, the fixed points of the other flexible connect collars circle and tie to other cross-points of the mesh wires in the same circumference of the above cross-point, the free cycle of every flexible connect collar extends bilaterally along the outside superficial circularity of the stent and circle the stent under radial compression in less than one lap, extending in the same direction, the free cycles are connected one by one in order, extending in two directions, the last two free cycles form an opposite condition.

21. The delivery device of claim 11, wherein the hold-down and take-up mechanism also contains temporary stayguys, locked temporarily at its far-end cycle by the locked coil, the take-up wire passes through a closed line eye on the stent and then circles the surface of the stent under radial compression close to a cycle and comes back to the same closed line eye again, afterwards, it passes through the interlayer between the inner pipe and the medium pipe and is drawn out of the near-end of the implantation system, the temporary stayguy is set between the inner pipe and the medium pipe, the temporary stayguy rounds the take-up wire near the far-end of its cycle to form double lines and holds the take-up wire to the near-end.

22. The delivery device of claim 1, wherein the external protection apparatus is a hold-down mechanism of the flexible connect collar, which contains at least one locked coil, one flexible connect collar linked to the stent and applied to compress the stent, one flexible connect collar passed through the lateral opening of the inner pipe and locked by the temporarily passing locked coil.

23. The delivery device of claim 22, wherein the flexible connect collar contains fixed ends and free ends, the fixed point circles and ties to the arched inflexion or the closed line eye or the cross-point of the mesh wires of the stent, the free point extends inside or outside the stent and composes the single free cycle or double free cycle.

24. The delivery device of claim 22, wherein the flexible connect collar is a single closed wire loop, which passes through the arched inflexion or the closed line eye or the cross-point of the mesh wires of the stent. It can slide but cannot break away.

25. The delivery device of claim 22, wherein the hold-down mechanism of the flexible connect collar contains several flexible connect collars with a single free cycle, the flexible connect collars are distributed circularly on the same section inside or outside the stent, the adjacent flexible connect collars under the radial compressed stent are connected one by one in order and circle the stent once, the last free cycle of the flexible connect collar passes through the lateral opening of the inner pipe and is locked by the temporarily passing locked coil.

26. The delivery device of claim 22, wherein the hold-down mechanism of the flexible connect collar contains only one flexible connect collar with a single free cycle, the flexible connect collar under the radial compressed stent circles outside the stent once, passes through the lateral opening of the inner pipe, and then is locked by the temporarily passing locked coil.

27. The delivery device of claim 22, wherein the hold-down mechanism of the flexible connect collar contains only one flexible connect collar with a double free cycle, the two free cycles of the flexible connect collar circle the radial compressed stent in opposite directions half cycle, respectively, they pass through the same lateral opening of the inner pipe and are locked by the temporarily passing locked coil.

28. The delivery device of claim 22, wherein the hold-down mechanism of the flexible connect collar contains several flexible connect collars with a single free cycle, the flexible connect collars are distributed helically outside the stent, the adjacent flexible connect collars under the radial compression of the stent are connected one by one in order and circle the stent at least once, the last free cycle of the flexible connect collar passes through the lateral opening of the inner pipe and is locked by the temporarily passing locked coil.

29. The delivery device of claim 22, wherein the hold-down mechanism of the flexible connect collar contains one flexible connect collar with a double free cycle and several flexible connect collars with a single free cycle, the flexible connect collars are distributed helically outside the stent, one flexible connect collar with a double free cycle is set up in the middle of the stent, two free cycles of the flexible connect collar extend in opposite directions under the radial compression of the stent and are connected with the adjacent flexible connect collar with a single free cycle one by one in order at least once, the last two free cycles extending in opposite directions of the flexible connect collar pass through the far lateral opening and the proximal opening of the inner pipe respectively and are locked by the temporarily passing locked coil.

30. The delivery device of claim 22, wherein the hold-down mechanism of the flexible connect collar also contains temporary stayguys which make up of the implantation system, the flexible connect collar applied to compress the stent is a single closed wire loop, one port passes through the arched inflexion or the closed line eye or the cross-point of the mesh wires of the stent, another one passes through the lateral opening of the stent and the inner pipe to enter the inner pipe, or enters between the inner pipe and the medium pipe and is locked by the temporarily passing locked coil, the middle one is pulled by the temporary stayguys.

31. The delivery device of claim 30, wherein the closed wire loop is passed by a stayguy and can be pulled to the near-end, a cycle is set up at the far-end of the stayguy and is locked by the temporarily passing locked coil of the inner pipe or the locked coil between the inner pipe and the medium pipe.

32. The delivery device of claim 1, wherein at least one lateral texturing tube is installed, beginning from the outside of the medium section to the distal segment of the inner pipe, the lateral texturing tube is connected with the distal segment of the inner pipe, extending to the medium segment of the inner pipe along the proximal direction of the inner pipe, the lateral texturing tube can also extend to the close segment of the inner pipe or near-end controller, located between the far lateral opening and the proximal opening of the inner pipe, the far-end of the lateral texturing tube bends outward to form a certain angle between the direction of the port and the direction of the lateral opening of the inner pipe.

35. The delivery device of claim 1, wherein the locked coil passes through the inner pipe, its far-end passes through the cycle of one or more stayguys and locks one or more stayguys, its near-end is connected with the sliding-jig in the branch pipe of the locked coil of the near-end controller.

36. The delivery device of claim 1, wherein the stayguy passes through the pore space of the inner pipe, its far-end has a cycle of stayguy and its near-end is drawn out of the branch pipe of the stayguy of the near-end controller, its distal segment is drawn out of the lateral opening of the inner pipe, forming the outside segment of the stayguy, the outside segment of the stayguy circles the net stent once, enters the same lateral opening of the inner pipe and then is locked through its far-end cycle of the stayguy by the locked coil.

37. The delivery device of claim 36, wherein the outside segment of the stayguy passes through the opening of the deformable unit or the arched inflexion or the closed line eye and the flexible connect collar to form a lasso when it circles the stent.

39. The delivery device of claim 1, wherein the temporary recovering wire is applied to assist the stayguy and comes back to the near-end controller when the device is assembled.

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