Flexible Distal-End Assembly with Double-Sided Electrode Array and Irrigation
AssigneeBiosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
InventorsAssaf GOVARI, Christopher Thomas BEECKLER, Andres Claudio ALTMANN
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Abstract
A medical probe includes a shaft and an expandable flexible distal-end assembly. The shaft is configured for insertion into a cavity of organ of a patient. The expandable flexible distal-end assembly, which is fitted at a distal-end of the shaft, includes a flat flexible backing sheet, including irrigation channels, and two flexible substrates having respective arrays of electrodes disposed thereon, the substrates attached one on either side of the backing sheet.
Claims20
A manufacturing method of a medical probe, the method comprising:
- preparing a flat flexible backing sheet, comprising irrigation channels;
- fabricating two flexible substrates having respective arrays of electrodes disposed thereon;
- attaching the two flexible substrates to the flat flexible backing sheet with one on either side to form an expandable flexible distal-end assembly;
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- fitting the expandable flexible distal-end assembly at a distal-end of a shaft for insertion into a cavity of organ of a patient.
A medical probe, comprising:
- a shaft for insertion into a cavity of an organ of a patient;
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- an expandable flexible distal-end assembly, which is fitted at a distal-end of the shaft and comprises:
- a flat flexible backing sheet, comprising an irrigation channel extending at least partially through the flat flexible backing sheet;
- and
- a flexible substrate disposed on a first side of the flat flexible backing sheet and comprising:
- an electrode disposed thereon;
- and
- a fluid passage extending therethrough perpendicular to the irrigation channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.