Distal Capture Device for a Self-Expanding Stent
AssigneeDePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
InventorsRobert R. Slazas, Juan A. Lorenzo
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Abstract
A delivery system including a distal capture device that has a sleeve with a passageway defined axially therethrough and one or more elastically deformable sections. Each of the one or more elastically deformable sections has a free terminating end and an opposite end mounted to the distal end of the sleeve. The elastically deformable sections transition between: (i) a fully expanded state in which the elastically deformable section is distally biased in a direction away from the sleeve; and (ii) a retracted state in which the free terminating end of each of the elastically deformable sections is proximally deflected backwards over itself in a direction toward the proximal end of the sleeve.
Claims17
A delivery system comprising:
- a distal capture device comprising:
- a sleeve having a proximal end, an opposite distal end and a passageway defined axially therethrough;
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- at least one elastically deformable section, each of the at least one elastically deformable section has a free terminating end and an opposite end mounted to the distal end of the sleeve;
- wherein the at least one elastically deformable section transitions between:
- (i) a fully expanded state in which the at least one elastically deformable section is distally biased in a direction away from the sleeve;
- and (ii) a retracted state in which the free terminating end of each of the at least one elastically deformable section is proximally deflected backwards over itself in a direction toward the proximal end of the sleeve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.