Tube for medical device, and medical device
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorKiyoshi TAKAO
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Abstract
A tube for a medical device includes an inner layer tube formed from an elastomer or a resin having flexibility and having a non-parallel groove with respect to an axial direction formed on an outer circumferential surface of the inner layer tube; an outer layer formed from an elastomer resin softer than a base material of the inner layer tube and configured to fill the groove while covering an outer circumference of the inner layer tube; and a braid formed from metal wires and only arranged in locations other than the groove in the outer layer, wherein the outer layer is divided to at least two layers, the innermost layer is a layer filling the groove of the inner layer tube, and the braid is arranged only in the layers other than the innermost layer.
Claims5
A tube for a medical device, comprising:
- an inner layer tube formed from an elastomer or a resin having flexibility and having a non-parallel groove with respect to an axial direction formed on an outer circumferential surface of the inner layer tube;
- an outer layer formed from an elastomer resin softer than a base material of the inner layer tube and configured to fill the groove while covering an outer circumference of the inner layer tube;
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- a braid formed from metal wires and only arranged in locations other than the groove in the outer layer,
- wherein the outer layer is divided to at least two layers,
- the innermost layer is a layer filling the groove of the inner layer tube, and
- the braid is arranged only in the layers other than the innermost layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.