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Method for providing stiffness enhanced filaments

  • US 9,480,410 B1
  • Filed: 04/15/2013
  • Issued: 11/01/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of providing a stiffness enhancing material to a pliable filament having a distal tip comprising the steps of:

  • providing a mold having a contoured opening dimensioned such that the distal tip with a length of the filament can extend into the contoured opening without contact with the mold;

    filling the contoured opening with a stiffness enhancing material, said material having an initial liquid state;

    immersing the filament into the stiffness enhancing material;

    maintaining the filament in the mold until the stiffness enhancing material achieves a solid state; and

    withdrawing the filament from the mold once the material achieves the solid state, whereby said filament is thereby encased in a stiffness enhancing material, wherein the filament is an electrically conductive wire.

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