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US 2014/0227558 A1Published application
Catheter wire and method of manufacturing the same
AssigneeHitachi Cable, Ltd.
InventorsTakanobu WATANABE, Detian HUANG
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Abstract
A catheter wire includes a wire core including a semi-rigid stainless steel, and a conductor layer covering an outer periphery of the wire core. A method of manufacturing a catheter wire includes drawing a stainless steel in an axial direction so as to form a wire core with a predetermined diameter, annealing the drawn stainless steel so as to change the stainless steel into a semi-rigid stainless steel, and forming a conductor layer on an outer periphery of the semi-rigid stainless steel.
Claims9
A catheter wire, comprising:
- a wire core comprising a semi-rigid stainless steel;
- and
- a conductor layer covering an outer periphery of the wire core.
A method of manufacturing a catheter wire, comprising:
- drawing a stainless steel in an axial direction so as to form a wire core with a predetermined diameter;
- annealing the drawn stainless steel so as to change the stainless steel into a semi-rigid stainless steel;
- and
- forming a conductor layer on an outer periphery of the semi-rigid stainless steel.
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