# US 2016/0015949 A1 · Apparatus and method for deployment of a bronchial obstruction device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2016/0015949 A1 - Document ID: US20160015949A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 14/665,221 - Filed: 2015-03-23 - Published: 2016-01-21 - Earliest claimed: 2001-10-25 - Assignees: Spiration, Inc. - Applicants: Spiration, Inc. - Inventors: Jenni Rimbaugh; Lauri J. DeVore - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20160015949A1 ## CPC - A61M 29/02: Dilators made of swellable material {(balloon catheters for angioplasty A61M25/104)} - A61B 17/12022: {Occluding by internal devices, e.g. balloons or releasable wires (plugging an opening in the wall of an organ A61B17/0057; occluders for the cervical canal A61F6/146; vas deferens occluders A61F6/20)} - A61B 17/12104: {in an air passage} - A61B 17/12172: {having a pre-set deployed three-dimensional shape (methods of manufacturing A61B2017/00526)} - A61B 17/24: for use in the oral cavity, larynx, bronchial passages or nose (for medical inspection of cavities or tubes in the body A61B1/00); Tongue scrapers - A61B 2017/1205: {Introduction devices} - A61B 2017/242: {for bronchial passages} - A61B 2090/037: {with a frangible part, e.g. by reduced diameter} - A61F 2002/043: {Bronchi} - A61M 2029/025: {characterised by the guiding element} - A61M: DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY (introducing media into or onto the bodies of animals A61D7/00; means for inserting tampons A61F13/26; devices for administering food or medicines orally A61J; containers for collecting, storing or administering blood or medical fluids A61J1/05); DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY (surgery A61B; chemical aspects of surgical articles A61L); DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR {(Electrotherapy, e.g. producing anaesthesia by the use of alternating or intermittent currents A61N1/36021)} - A61B: DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (usefulness limited to only animals A61D) - A61F: FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS (dental prosthetics A61C) ## Abstract An apparatus and method deploy a self-expandable bronchial obstruction device in an air passageway. The apparatus includes a catheter configured to be passed down the trachea. The apparatus further includes a capsule for housing the self-expandable bronchial obstruction device in a sterile environment. The capsule is configured to be advanced down the catheter. The capsule further includes a tubular extension. The capsule has a breakable seam so as to release the bronchial obstruction device in the air passageway upon a proximal force being exerted upon the bronchial obstruction device. The method includes guiding a conduit down a trachea into the air passageway. The method further includes advancing a capsule having a bronchial device therein down an internal lumen of the conduit into the air passageway. The method further includes releasing the bronchial device from the capsule. The method further includes deploying the bronchial device into the air passageway. ## Claims ### Claim 1 (canceled) ### Claim 2 An apparatus for deploying a bronchial device in an air passageway, the apparatus comprising: a conduit configured to be passed down a trachea, the conduit comprising an internal lumen, an axially-movable push rod within the internal lumen, a housing that defines a sealed capsule that is moveable relative to the conduit, the sealed capsule substantially sealingly enclosing and separating the bronchial device from an environment external to the capsule, the bronchial device positioned within the housing, and the housing being further arranged to be advanced down the internal lumen of the conduit placed into the air passageway and, upon an application of a proximal force by the axially-movable push rod upon the housing, to release the bronchial device for deployment in the air passageway such that the bronchial device is not in physical contact with the housing or the conduit once deployed. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the housing further comprises an openable feature through which the bronchial device is released. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the openable feature is opened by being broken. ### Claim 5 (depends on 2) The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the housing comprises a break-away portion through which the axially-movable push rod extends to contact the bronchial device. ### Claim 6 (depends on 2) The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the sealed capsule comprises an openable feature at one end and a break-away feature at a second end. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The apparatus of claim 6 wherein the push rod can break through the break-away feature to urge the bronchial device through the openable feature. ### Claim 8 (depends on 2) The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the push rod extends within a lumen defined within a tubular extension attached to the housing. ### Claim 9 (depends on 2) The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the housing is further arranged to protect the environment external to the housing from the bronchial device. ### Claim 10 (depends on 2) The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the housing includes a flexible material for collapsing within an internal lumen of a deployment conduit. ### Claim 11 A system for deploying a bronchial device in an air passageway, the system comprising: a conduit configured to be passed down a trachea, into a bronchus communicating with the trachea and into the air passageway communicating with a lung portion, the conduit comprising an internal lumen; an axially-movable pusher within the internal lumen; a housing arranged to encapsulate and separate the bronchial device from an environment external to the housing, the bronchial device positioned within the housing, the housing being further arranged to be advanced down an internal lumen of the conduit placed into the air passageway and to release the bronchial device, upon the application of a proximal force by the axially-movable pusher, for deployment in the air passageway such that the bronchial device is not in physical contact with the housing or the conduit once deployed; and the housing comprising a proximally extending tubular extension that is separated from the bronchial device by a wall. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11, wherein the housing further comprises an openable end through which the bronchial device is released. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The system of claim 12, wherein the wall is breakable to place an inside of the housing into communication with a lumen defined by the tubular extension. ### Claim 14 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11, wherein the housing comprises a break-away portion arranged upon breakage to release the bronchial device.