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Process for manufacturing three-dimensional braided covered stent

  • US 5,718,159 A
  • Filed: 04/30/1996
  • Issued: 02/17/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/30/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A process for making a prosthesis, including:

  • providing a plurality of structural strands formed of structural material and having an original nominal shape;

    providing a plurality of compliant textile strands;

    altering the structural strands while they remain separate from the textile strands to impart to each of the structural strands a selected nominal shape in lieu of the original nominal shape; and

    after said altering, three-dimensionally braiding the textile strands and the altered structural strands into a three-dimensional integrated structure in which the structural strands together provide a tubular shape of the integrated structure and the textile strands form a textile sheeting supported by the structural strands and adapted to compliantly conform to changes from said tubular shape due to deformations of the structural strands.

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