Stent with angled struts and crowns
AssigneeMedtronic Vascular, Inc.
InventorsSyed Askari, Richard Bliss
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Abstract
A stent in a radially compressed configuration includes a plurality of first outer crowns and a plurality of second outer crowns, each of the first outer crowns and the second outer crowns connected by a strut of a plurality of struts. The plurality of first outer crowns and the plurality of second outer crowns are disposed at a crown angle in the range of about 15 degrees to about 35 degrees, the crown angle being defined by a line extending through a midpoint of a crown of the plurality of first outer crowns or the plurality of second outer crowns through a center of radius of the crown with respect to a line that is parallel to a central longitudinal axis of the stent.
Claims19
A stent including a radially compressed configuration and a radially expanded configuration, the stent in the radially compressed configuration comprising:
- a plurality of first outer crowns and a plurality of second outer crowns, each of the first outer crowns and the second outer crowns connected by a strut of a plurality of struts, wherein the plurality of first outer crowns and the plurality of second outer crowns are disposed at a crown angle in the range of about 15 degrees to about 35 degrees, the crown angle being defined by a line extending through a midpoint of a crown of the plurality of first outer crowns or the plurality of second outer crowns through a center of radius of the crown with respect to a line that is parallel to a central longitudinal axis of the stent.
A stent including a radially compressed configuration and the radially expanded configuration, the stent in the radially compressed configuration comprising:
- a plurality of first outer crowns and second outer crowns, each of the first outer crowns and second outer crowns connected by a strut of a plurality of struts, wherein the plurality of first outer crowns includes angled first outer crowns and parallel first outer crowns and the plurality of second outer crowns includes angled second outer crowns and parallel second outer crowns,
- wherein the angled first outer crowns and the angled second outer crowns are disposed at a crown angle in the range of about 15 degrees to about 35 degrees, the crown angle being defined by a line extending through a midpoint of a crown of the angled first outer crowns or the angled second outer crowns through a center of radius of the crown with respect to a line that is parallel to a central longitudinal axis of the stent, and
- wherein the parallel first outer crowns and the parallel second outer crowns are disposed parallel to the central longitudinal axis of the stent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.