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US 8,210,084 B2Granted
Stent and method for manufacturing the same
AssigneeStandard Sci-Tech Inc.
InventorSung-Soon An
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing a stent includes forming a first cylindrical mesh structure by bending a first member in a zigzag-shape having peaks and valleys and a plurality of turns wound around an outer circumference of a manufacturing frame and forming a second cylindrical mesh structure by bending a second member in a zigzag-shape having peaks and valleys and a plurality of turns wound around an outer circumference of a manufacturing frame, wherein a bending track the second member crosses a bending track of the first member.
Claims6
A method of manufacturing a stent, comprising:
- forming a first cylindrical mesh structure by bending a first member in a zigzag-shape having peaks and valleys and a plurality of turns wound around an outer circumference of a manufacturing frame;
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- forming a second cylindrical mesh structure by bending a second member in a zigzag-shape having peaks and valleys and a plurality of turns wound around an outer circumference of a manufacturing frame;
- wherein a bending track of the second member crosses about half way between each of the meshes formed by the bending track of the first member;
- wherein the peaks and valleys of different turns of the first member are crossed and interlocked with each other when the peaks and valleys of the different turns of the first member meet each other during the formation of the first cylindrical mesh structure;
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- wherein the peaks and valleys of different turns of the second member are crossed and interlocked with each other when the peaks and valleys of different turns of the second member meet each other during the formation of the second cylindrical mesh structure.
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A method of manufacturing a stent, comprising:
- providing a plurality of pins on a cylindrical surface of a cylindrical manufacturing frame and setting one of a plurality of pins as a starting point;
- winding a first member around the cylindrical manufacturing frame from the starting point to an end of the cylindrical manufacturing frame while being bent in a zigzag-shape to form peaks and valleys with reference to the pins and having a plurality of turns;
- winding the first member around the cylindrical manufacturing frame from the end of the cylindrical manufacturing frame to the starting point while being bent in a zigzag-shape to form peaks and valleys with reference to the pins and having a plurality of turns, the peaks and valley are crossed and interlocked each other when the peaks and valleys meet each other;
- forming a strut by spirally twisting a distal end portion of the first member and a proximal end portion of the first member after the peaks and valleys of the first member are formed;
- winding a second member around the cylindrical manufacturing frame from a starting point to an end of the cylindrical manufacturing frame while being bent in a zigzag-shape to form peaks and valleys with reference to the pins and having a plurality of turns, wherein the starting point of the second member is disposed on a symmetrically opposite location of the starting point of the first member on the surface of the cylindrical manufacturing frame;
- winding the second member around the cylindrical manufacturing frame from the end of the cylindrical manufacturing frame to the starting point while being bent in a zigzag-shape to form peaks and valleys with reference to the pins and having a plurality of turns, wherein the peaks and valleys are crossed and interlocked each other when the peaks and valleys meet each other;
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- forming a strut by spirally twisting a distal end portion of the second member and a proximal end portion of the first member after the peaks and valleys of the first member are formed;
- wherein a bending track of the second member crosses about half way between each of the meshes formed by the bending track of the first member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.