Implant loading device and system
AssigneePulmonx Corporation
InventorsRyan Olivera, Hoang Nguyen
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Abstract
Devices, methods, and systems are provided for loading an implantable device into a container. One aspect of the loading system contains a loader element with a loading tunnel that is configured to gradually contract an implantable device into a compressed state of reduced size relative to an expanded state as the implantable device travels through the loading tunnel.
Claims15
A method for loading an implantable device into a container, comprising:
- pulling an implantable device using a puller element through a loading tunnel in a loading element thereby contracting the implantable device into a compressed state of reduced size relative to an expanded state as the implantable device travels through the loading tunnel, wherein the puller element is removably attached to the implantable device via a suture;
- and
- automatically releasing the suture after the implantable device is contracted into the compressed state;
- wherein a rotator disposed on the puller element is removably attached to the suture;
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- wherein automatically releasing the suture after the implantable device is contracted into the compressed state comprises rotation of the rotator thereby causing the suture to detach from the rotator.
A method for loading an implantable device into a container, comprising:
- pulling an implantable device using a puller element through a loading tunnel in a loading element thereby contracting the implantable device into a compressed state of reduced size relative to an expanded state as the implantable device travels through the loading tunnel, wherein the puller element is removably attached to the implantable device via a suture;
- automatically releasing the suture after the implantable device is contracted into the compressed state;
- pushing the implantable device through the loading tunnel and into the delivery catheter using a plunger.
A method for loading an implantable device into a container, comprising:
- pulling an implantable device using a puller element through a loading tunnel in a loading element thereby contracting the implantable device into a compressed state of reduced size relative to an expanded state as the implantable device travels through the loading tunnel, wherein the puller element is removably attached to the implantable device;
- automatically releasing the implantable device after the implantable device is contracted into the compressed state;
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- pushing the implantable device through the loading tunnel and into a delivery catheter using a plunger.
A method for loading an implantable device into a container, comprising:
- pulling an implantable device using a puller element through a loading tunnel in a loading element thereby contracting the implantable device into a compressed state of reduced size relative to an expanded state as the implantable device travels through the loading tunnel, wherein the puller element is removably attached to the implantable device;
- automatically releasing the implantable device after the implantable device is contracted into the compressed state;
- wherein automatically releasing the implantable device after the implantable device is contracted into the compressed state comprises detaching a suture.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.