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US 10,743,882 B2Granted
Delivery and detachment mechanisms for vascular implants
AssigneeCovidien LP
InventorsStephen J. Kleshinski, Karl S. Halden
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Abstract
Vascular delivery systems configured to deliver an implant to a location within a vasculature can include one or more control wires controllable by a user to detach the implant from the delivery system. Control wires can cause a feature of the delivery system to mechanically engage a hub at a proximal end of an implant. Proximal or distal movement of the control wire can allow the feature to disengage from the hub, thereby allowing release of the implant.
Claims18
A vascular delivery system comprising:
- an implant having, at a proximal region, a hub defining a port having an inner cross-sectional dimension;
- a shaft having an interference section comprising a pair of first extensions and a pair of second extensions, the interference section disposed distal to the port, the first extensions having an extended state with an extended cross-sectional dimension and a relaxed state with a relaxed cross-sectional dimension, less than the extended cross-sectional dimension, the extended cross-sectional dimension being larger than the inner cross-sectional dimension;
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- a control wire extending through the shaft and having an engagement portion, between the pair of first extensions and between the pair of second extensions, and being retractable relative to the interference section;
- wherein, upon proximal retraction of the engagement portion proximal to the interference section, the first extensions transition from the extended state to the relaxed state with the first extensions being radially closer to each other than the second extensions are to each other.
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A method of delivering a vascular implant, comprising:
- delivering, to a target location, an implant having a hub at a proximal end of the implant, while (i) a shaft extends through a port of the hub, (ii) an interference section comprising a pair of first extensions and a pair of second extensions is distal to the port with the first extensions in an extended state having an extended cross-sectional dimension greater than an inner cross-sectional dimension of the port, (iii) a control wire extends through the interference section to hold the first extensions in the extended state;
- retracting the control wire proximally until the first extensions transition to a relaxed state with a relaxed cross-sectional dimension, less than the extended cross-sectional dimension, and with the first extensions being radially closer to each other than the second extensions are close to each other;
- retracting the shaft proximally past the port;
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- retracting the control wire proximally past the port.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.