US 2003/0143350 A1 · Angioplasty super balloon fabrication with composite materials

Abstract

The balloon catheter comprises a plastic tubing, a balloon fused to one end portion of said tubing, and the balloon being made of a polymer and one of a carbon nano-tube material, a nano-clay material or a nano-ceramic fiber material.

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Dependent claims

A nano-composite reinforced polymer including a polymer and one of carbon nano-tubes, a nano clay or nano-ceramic fibers formed into a super balloon for medical applications.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/046,452Filed 14 Jan 2002

Published

31 Jul 2003

Term ends

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Classification21 codes

A61L 29/12
Materials for catheters, medical tubing, cannulae, or endoscopes or for coating catheters: composite materials, i.e. containing one material…
A61F 2/958
Instruments specially adapted for placement or removal of stents or stent-grafts: inflatable balloons for placing stents or stent-grafts
A61L 29/126
Composite materials, i.e. containing one material dispersed in a matrix of the same or different material: having a macromolecular matrix
A61M 25/10
Catheters; Hollow probes: balloon catheters

Abstract

Claims15

Dependent claims

A nano-composite reinforced polymer including a polymer and one of carbon nano-tubes, a nano clay or nano-ceramic fibers formed into a super balloon for medical applications.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Angioplasty super balloon fabrication with composite materials

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Abstract

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Angioplasty super balloon fabrication with composite materials

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