# US 11,896,484 B2 · Implant loading apparatus > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,896,484 B2 - Document ID: US11896484B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/040,060 - Filed: 2019-01-11 - Published: 2021-01-21 - Granted: 2024-02-13 - Earliest claimed: 2018-03-22 - Assignees: Shanghai Microport Cardioflow Medtech Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Shanghai Microport Cardioflow Medtech Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Feng Huang; Jing Zhao; Guoming Chen; Yu Li - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11896484B2 ## CPC - A61F 2/2427: {Devices for manipulating or deploying heart valves during implantation} - A61F 2/9525: {using a funnel} - A61F: FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS (dental prosthetics A61C) ## Abstract The present application discloses an implant loading apparatus comprising a guider and a guide base. The guider is sleeved on the exterior of the guide base. The guide base comprises a guide column, a connecting section, and a base connected in the axial direction. Fixing sections are provided on either end of the connecting section. The guide base is removably connected to the guider via the fixing sections. The guide base is provided with the two fixing sections that fit the guider to implement twice removable fixing, thus favoring a coaxial operation. A valve stent is neither twisted nor tilted during a compression process, thus increasing loading efficiency, greatly reducing the operation difficulty of a surgery, and allowing the implementation of a single person operation. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An implant loading apparatus, comprising: a guider and a guide base, wherein the guider is sleeved on an exterior of the guide base, the guide base comprises a guide column, a connecting section and a base connected in an axial direction, a fixing section is provided on each end of the connecting section, and the guide base is removably connected to the guider via the fixing section, and wherein the fixing section close to the guide column is a first fixing section, and the fixing section close to the base is a second fixing section; the guider comprises a fixing area and a bayonet is provided on the fixing area, the bayonet in a part of the fixing area is provided with a radially inward bulge, two symmetrical and axially extending gaps are provided on left and right edges of the bayonet, a length of each of the gaps is greater than or equal to a length of the fixing area, and less than a sum of lengths of the connection area and the fixing area, the bayonet is clampable with the first fixing section and the second fixing section respectively, such that the guide base can realize two respective removable connections with the guider, and a main compression area is provided on an inner surface of the guider to compress an implant. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The implant loading apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the number of the bayonet is at least two, and at least two bayonets are symmetrically distributed in a circumferential direction of the guider. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The implant loading apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a connection area is provided between the main compression area and the fixing area, the connection area is cylindrical, and the diameter of the connection area is the same as the diameter of an inlet end of the main compression area. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The implant loading apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the length of the gaps ranges from 1-25 mm. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The implant loading apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an auxiliary compression area through an inner cavity is provided on the guide base, the auxiliary compression area is a funnel-shaped space formed by a rotary body, and the diameters of two end faces of the rotary body are different. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The implant loading apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a groove is provided on the surface of the guide base, the groove is located between the guide column and the fixing section. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The implant loading apparatus according to claim 6, wherein a ratio range of an inner diameter of the groove to the diameter of a tail of the implant is 1:1-2:1, and the width range of the groove is 1-5 mm. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The implant loading apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first fixing section is in the shape of a circular platform, and the diameter of a bottom of the circular platform is slightly larger than the diameter of the connecting section. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The implant loading apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second fixing section is cylindrical, and the diameter of the second fixing section is slightly smaller than the diameter of the connecting section. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The implant loading apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the connecting section is cylindrical, and the diameter of the connecting section is slightly smaller than the diameter of an inlet end of the main compression area. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The implant loading apparatus according to claim 10, wherein an outer surface of the connecting section is provided with a groove track which is axially connected with the first fixing section and the second fixing section and matched with the bayonet, and the number of the groove track is the same as the number of the bayonet. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The implant loading apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the ratio of the height of the guide column to the height of the guider ranges from 0.6:1-2:1.