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US 2001/0025169 A1Published application
Indwelling catheter
OwnerTatsuo Kaneshigeinventor
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Abstract
An indwelling catheter comprising a flexible malecot tube having a plurality of slits elongating toward the longitudinal direction in the vicinity of the tip of the catheter, a flexible core wire movable in the axial direction along the malecot tube with its tip fixed to the tip of the malecot tube, a cylindrical connector fixed to the root side of the malecot tube and permitting the root of the core wire to protrude out of the end portion of the malecot tube, and a stopper provided on the connector to constrain arbitrary movement of the core wire.
Claims9
An indwelling catheter comprising:
- a flexible malecot tube having a plurality of slits elongating toward the longitudinal direction in the vicinity of the tip of the catheter;
- a flexible core wire disposed movablly in the axial direction along the malecot tube with its tip fixed to the tip of the malecot tube;
- a cylindrical connector fixed to the root side of the malecot tube and permitting the root of the core wire to protrude out of the end portion of the malecot tube;
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- a stopper provided on the connector to constrain arbitrary movement of the core wire.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.