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US 2006/0230592 A1Published application
Loading stent with compressed air
AssigneeBoston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
InventorsBarry Heaney, Gabriel Serrano, Michael Austin, John Motherwell
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Abstract
A stent loading system comprises a contracting aperture device having blades defining a contracting aperture and a fluid supply source. The blades are movable so as to vary the size of the contracting aperture. A stream of fluid is supplied by a fluid supply source and enters the contracting aperture and travels longitudinally through the contracting aperture. The stream of fluid is arranged to transport a stent from the contracting aperture contracting aperture and outside the contracting aperture device.
Claims22
A stent loading system comprising:
- a contracting aperture device having blades defining a contracting aperture, the blades being movable so as to vary the size of the contracting aperture;
- a fluid supply source, a stream of fluid supplied by the fluid supply source and entering the contracting aperture traveling longitudinally through the length of the aperture, the stream of fluid arranged to transport a stent through the contracting aperture and outside the contracting aperture device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.