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AssigneeBolton Medical, Inc.
InventorsHumberto Berra, Bryan White, Timothy Lostetter, Scott L. Rush, John C. Canning
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A method of releasing a bare stent of a stent graft includes moving a lumen, to which a proximal apex capture portion of an apex capture device is fixed, the proximal apex capture portion defining a radial restraint, along a major axis between a first position, in which tines of the proximal apex capture portion are mated with slots of a distal apex capture portion and overlie bosses extending radially from a major axis of the apex capture device, and a second position, in which the tines are not mated with the slots and do not overlie the bosses, to thereby release apices of a bare stent from a space defined by the tines, the bosses and the distal apex capture portion.
A method of releasing a bare stent of a stent graft, comprising the steps of moving a control lumen, to which a proximal apex capture portion of an apex capture device is fixed, the proximal apex capture portion defining pilot holes extending along a major axis of the lumen, from a first position, in which tines of the proximal apex capture portion are mated with a distal apex capture portion, and in which barbs extending distally from proximal apices of a bare stent of a stent graft are radially restrained by the pilot holes, and a second position, in which the tines are not mated with the distal apex capture portion, thereby releasing apices of a bare stent from a space defined at least in part by the tines and the distal apex capture portion, and releasing the barbs from radial restraint by the pilot holes.
A system for releasing a bare stent of a stent graft, comprising:
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