MEDICAL DEVICE

• US 20110257673A1
• Filed: 10/12/2009
• Published: 10/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Veryan Medical Limited (Otsuka Holdings Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Veryan Medical Limited (Otsuka Holdings Company Limited)
• Inventors: Gilson, Paul, Mullins, Liam, Burke, Martin, Blowick, Ray, Heraty, Kevin
• Granted Patent: US 9,883,961 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/194
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/958 Inflatable balloons for placing stents or stent-grafts
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2002/068 Modifying the blood flow model, e.g. by diffuser or deflector
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2002/3008 radio-opaque, e.g. radio-opaque markers
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2002/30289 helically-coiled
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2230/0091 helically-coiled or spirally-coiled, i.e. having a 2-D spiral cross-section
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2250/0098 radio-opaque, e.g. radio-opaque markers
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/1011 Multiple balloon catheters

Abstract

A medical device includes an expandable element for location in a blood vessel. The expandable element is movable between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration. In the expanded configuration, at least a part of a longitudinal axis of the expandable element is curved in three-dimensional space. The medical device can be stent deployment device which includes an elongate catheter shaft and an inflatable balloon.

Claims

1. A medical device comprising:

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an expandable element for location in a blood vessel,

the expandable element being movable between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration,

in the expanded configuration at least part of the longitudinal axis of the expandable element being curved in three-dimensional space.

2-62. -62. (canceled)