Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sheath for medically expandable balloon
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Application No.: US15875372Application Date: 2018-01-19
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Publication No.: US10668255B2Publication Date: 2020-06-02
- Inventor: John Kantor , Claudio Silvestro , Shashank Raina
- Applicant: Medtronic Vascular, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Rosa
- Assignee: MEDTRONIC VASCULAR, INC.
- Current Assignee: MEDTRONIC VASCULAR, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Rosa
- Agency: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.
- Main IPC: A61M29/00
- IPC: A61M29/00 ; A61M31/00 ; A61M25/10 ; A61B17/88 ; A61F2/95

Abstract:
A medical device includes a catheter, an expandable balloon on the distal portion of the catheter, and a sheath that is configured to enclose and protect the expandable balloon. The sheath extends within a sheath lumen of the catheter and out from the catheter through a distal opening of the sheath lumen. When in a deployed configuration, the sheath extends proximally to enclose at least a portion of the expandable balloon. The sheath may be axially movable within the sheath lumen of the catheter to actuate from the deployed configuration to a retracted configuration. In moving to the retracted configuration, the sheath may expose the outer surface of the expandable balloon.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190224460A1 SHEATH FOR MEDICALLY EXPANDABLE BALLOON Public/Granted day:2019-07-25
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