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US 12,005,203 B2Granted
Articulating shaft for a steerable catheter system and fabrication method
AssigneeCreganna Unlimited Company
InventorsDamian Muldoon, Bernard McDermott
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Abstract
An articulating shaft for a steerable catheter system includes a tubular body and a plurality of wire support elements integrally formed from a single piece with the tubular body. The tubular body has a longitudinal central axis and a sealed lumen with a distal opening and a proximal opening. The wire support elements support an actuating wire. Each of the wire support elements has a feed-through opening receiving the actuating wire. A pair of adjacent wire support elements are separated from each other in an axial direction by a slot.
Claims10
An articulating shaft for a steerable catheter system, comprising:
- a tubular body having a longitudinal central axis and a radially sealed lumen with a distal opening and a proximal opening;
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- a plurality of wire support elements integrally formed from a single piece with the tubular body and supporting an actuating wire, each of the wire support elements has a feed-through opening receiving the actuating wire, a pair of adjacent wire support elements of the plurality of wire support elements are separated from each other in an axial direction by a slot, each of the wire support elements has a bracket separated from the tubular body by a void, the feed-through opening is arranged at the bracket and the void is positioned between the feed-through opening and the radially sealed lumen in a radial direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.