Process for assembling a protective sheath on a drug-coated balloon catheter
AssigneeBIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG
InventorFabian Risch
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Abstract
A process for arranging a protective sheath on a drug-coated balloon catheter in a machine. The protective sheath is transported via a transport system into a holding device. A drug coated area of the balloon catheter from contact with the machine. The protective sheath is arranged on a drug-coated area of the balloon catheter by machine relative motion between the balloon catheter and the protective sheath. The protecting can be placing at least one first and one second flexible film between the balloon catheter and a guide of the machine during the relative motion or can be holding the balloon catheter at a position on the catheter away from the drug-coated area during the relative motion.
Claims17
A process for arranging a protective sheath on a drug-coated balloon catheter in a machine, the protective sheath having a wall circling in a peripheral direction and surrounding an interior of the protective sheath, the process comprising:
- transporting the protective sheath via a transport system into a holding device;
- protecting a drug coated area of the balloon catheter from contact with the machine;
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- arranging the protective sheath on a drug-coated area of the balloon catheter by machine relative motion between the balloon catheter and the protective sheath, wherein said protecting comprises one of placing at least one first and one second flexible film between the balloon catheter and a guide of the machine during the relative motion.
A process for arranging a protective sheath on a drug-coated balloon catheter in a machine, the protective sheath having a wall circling in a peripheral direction and surrounding an interior of the protective sheath, the process comprising:
- transporting the protective sheath via a transport system into a holding device;
- protecting a drug coated area of the balloon catheter from contact with the machine;
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- arranging the protective sheath on drug-coated area of the balloon catheter by machine relative motion between the balloon catheter and the protective sheath, wherein said protecting comprises one of placing at least one first and one second flexible film between the balloon catheter and a guide of the machine during the relative motion, or holding the balloon catheter at a position on the catheter away from the drug-coated area during the relative motion, wherein the balloon catheter has a proximal end and an opposite distal end section, the drug-coated area being arranged at the distal end section, wherein said arranging comprises one of inserting the balloon catheter into the interior of the protective sheath with a proximal end of the balloon catheter first and arranging the protective sheath starting from the proximal end of the balloon catheter.
A process for arranging a protective sheath on a drug-coated balloon catheter in a machine, the protective sheath having a wall circling in a peripheral direction and surrounding an interior of the protective sheath, the process comprising:
- transporting the protective sheath via a transport system into a holding device;
- protecting a drug coated area of the balloon catheter from contact with the machine;
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- arranging the protective sheath on a drug-coated area of the balloon catheter by machine relative motion between the balloon catheter and the protective sheath, wherein said protecting comprises one of placing at least one first and one second flexible film between the balloon catheter and a guide of the machine during the relative motion, or holding the balloon catheter at a position on the catheter away from the drug-coated area during the relative motion, wherein as the protective sheath is arranged on the drug-coated area, the protective sheath is rotated with respect to the balloon catheter about a longitudinal axis of the protective sheath or the balloon catheter is rotated with respect to the protective sheath about the longitudinal axis.
A process for arranging a protective sheath on a drug-coated balloon catheter in a machine, the protective sheath having a wall circling in a peripheral direction and surrounding an interior of the protective sheath, the process comprising:
- transporting the protective sheath via a transport system into a holding device;
- gripping one of the protective sheath and the balloon catheter with a movable machine part while protecting a drug coated area of the balloon catheter from contact with the machine part;
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- moving the movable machine part to insert the balloon catheter into the protective sheath, wherein the movable machine part moves the balloon catheter via a protective film pressed between the movable machine part and the balloon catheter or the movable machine part moves the protective sheath by reaching behind an end of the protective sheath and pressing against the end of the protective sheath to push the protective sheath onto the drug-coated area of the balloon catheter.
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