Medical-device hook and medical device
AssigneeHoya Corporation
InventorNoriyuki SUGITA
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Abstract
Provided is a medical-device hook to be attached to a medical device including a tubular portion to be inserted into a body lumen, the medical-device hook including: an inset opening allowing the tubular portion to be inset into the inset opening; and a surrounding portion around the inset opening, the surrounding portion being configured to deform elastically to come in close contact with the tubular portion inset in the inset opening such that the tubular portion is held due to frictional resistance on a closely contacted portion between the surrounding portion around the inset opening and the tubular portion.
Claims12
A medical-device hook to be attached to a medical device including a tubular portion to be inserted into a body lumen, the medical-device hook comprising:
- an inset opening allowing the tubular portion to be inset into the inset opening;
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- a surrounding portion around the inset opening, the surrounding portion being configured to deform elastically to come in close contact with the tubular portion inset in the inset opening such that the tubular portion is held due to frictional resistance on a closely contacted portion between the surrounding portion around the inset opening and the tubular portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.