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US 12,318,568 B2Granted
Medical coiled tubing
AssigneeCodan US Corporation
InventorThomas F. Knight
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are sterilized medical coiled tubing and process for producing the same. One process comprises: helically winding a length of medical tubing along a mandrel such that adjacent turns of the medical tubing are in contact with each other at tubing contact points; applying a UV adhesive to the tubing contact points to produce a medical coiled tubing; curing the tubing by applying UV light to the tubing contact points; and removing the medical tubing from the mandrel after the solvent has dried.
Claims6
A method, comprising:
- helically winding a length of medical tubing along a mandrel such that adjacent turns of the medical tubing are in contact with each other at tubing contact points;
- applying a UV adhesive to the tubing contact points to produce a medical coiled tubing by
- dipping a comb comprising a plurality of parallel pins into a container of the UV adhesive such that the UV adhesive adheres to the pins, wherein the parallel pins have the same spacing as adjacent turns of the medical tubing,
- disposing each of the pins between respective turns of the medical tubing where the turns of the medical tubing contact each other, and
- removing the pins from the turns of the medical tubing;
- and
- curing the tubing by applying UV light to the tubing contact points.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.