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US 11,027,094 B2Granted
Tubular body and catheter having tubular body
AssigneeAsahi Intecc Co., Ltd.
InventorTakeshi Kizuka
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Abstract
A catheter having excellent flexibility in order to follow a guidewire, and that is not easily kinked even when the catheter is bent strongly. The catheter includes a catheter shaft having a hollow resin body and a coil body within the hollow resin body. The coil body is formed of a spirally wound wire, which is slidable with respect to the hollow resin body.
Claims6
A tube comprising:
- a hollow coil body formed of a spirally wound resin-coated wire, the resin-coated wire comprising a wire and a resin coating covering the wire, wherein:
- adjacent turns of the resin-coated wire are fixed at contact portions between adjacent portions of the resin coating, and
- the wire is slidable with respect to the resin coating.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.