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Flexible guide with safety tip

  • US 5,067,489 A
  • Filed: 10/26/1990
  • Issued: 11/26/1991
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/16/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A guide wire comprising an elongated flexible metal core, an elongated, helically wound wire coil having a forward end and providing the guide wire with a flexible tip, the core having a forward portion of reduced diameter extending forwardly within the tip and terminating forwardly in an enlarged diameter portion integrally formed with the core and defining a plug carried adjacent the forward end of the coil, the plug having a diameter approximately equal to the inner diameter of the coil at its forward end and substantially filling the inner lumen of the coil adjacent its forward end, and a bonding agent bonding the plug to the coil.

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