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US 2021/0213241 A1Published application
Micro-cutting systems for forming cuts in products and micro-fabricated devices made thereby
OwnerJeff Christian, Ryan Christian +4inventors
InventorsJeff Christian, Ryan Christian, James A. Gasbarro, Scott K. Boehmke, John Lippert, Edward J. Snyder
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Abstract
Polymer catheters and guidewires for use in intravascular surgery, and more particularly polymer catheters and guidewires micro-machined with a micro-cutting machine to provide sufficient flexibility to travel through a patient's vasculature while retaining sufficient torquability to transmit torque from a proximal end to the distal end of the catheter or guidewire, and methods of producing the same.
Claims1
An intravascular device, comprising:
- an elongated member having a proximal portion and a distal portion, wherein the distal portion includes
- an outer surface,
- an inner surface, and
- a plurality of fenestrations formed therein, the fenestrations having a depth extending between the outer surface and the inner surface, and the fenestrations defining a plurality of radially extending beams and axially extending beams;
- and
- an elastomeric filling material encapsulating the distal portion and filling the full depth of the fenestrations between the outer surface and the inner surface of the elongated member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.