Method of making an off-wall spacer cage
AssigneeBoston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
InventorsJoel N. Groff, Scott R. Smith
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Abstract
A method of making a spacer cage is disclosed. The method may include providing a tube having an outer diameter, a first second, a second section and a middle section having a first end connected to the first section and a second end connected to the second section, cutting the middle section to form strut elements of the spacer cage and cutting a plurality of longitudinal slits in the first and second sections to allow radial expansion of the first and second sections, expanding the tube using a mandrel, heat setting the tube while on the mandrel, and subsequent the heat setting, removing the first and second sections from the tube.
Claims7
A method for manufacturing a renal nerve modulation device, the method comprising:
- providing a tubular member;
- cutting the tubular member to define a plurality of strut assemblies connected by one or more expandable end sections;
- wherein each of the strut assemblies include a main strut, a spacer strut, and an electrode strut;
- attaching at least one tube to the tubular member adjacent to at least one of said expandable end sections;
- removing one or more of said expandable end sections from the tubular member to define a cage member;
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- attaching the cage member to a catheter shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.