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Component for delivering and locking a medical device to a guide wire

  • US 7,892,251 B1
  • Filed: 11/12/2003
  • Issued: 02/22/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2003
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A system for locking a component along a guide wire, comprising:

  • a guide wire having a flexible body member disposed thereon;

    a locking component having a body member including means for temporarily compressing at least a portion of the flexible body member of the guide wire to allow the compressed portion of the flexible body member to be placed in a recess formed in the body member, the compressed portion of the flexible body member being adapted to decompress within the recess to lock the formerly compressed portion of the flexible body member within the recess; and

    a medical device which is deliverable over the guide wire and coupled to the locking component, wherein the flexible body member disposed on the guide wire is a coil spring.

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