Invention Grant
- Patent Title: One-way valve devices for anchored implantation in a lung
- Patent Title (中): 用于锚定植入肺部的单向阀装置
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Application No.: US12968771Application Date: 2010-12-15
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Publication No.: US08257381B2Publication Date: 2012-09-04
- Inventor: David H. Dillard , Hugo X. Gonzalez , Seung Yi , Lauri J. DeVore , Mia Park , Dean T. Corcoran , Jenni Rimbaugh , Clifton A. Alferness
- Applicant: David H. Dillard , Hugo X. Gonzalez , Seung Yi , Lauri J. DeVore , Mia Park , Dean T. Corcoran , Jenni Rimbaugh , Clifton A. Alferness
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Spiration, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Spiration, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP
- Main IPC: A61M29/00
- IPC: A61M29/00

Abstract:
An intra-bronchial device placed and anchored in an air passageway of a patient to collapse a lung portion associated with the air passageway. The device includes a support structure, an obstructing member carried by the support structure that reduces ventilation to the lung portion by preventing air from being inhaled into the lung portion, and at least one anchor carried by the support structure that anchors the obstruction device within the air passageway. The anchor may engage the air passageway wall by piercing or friction, include a stop dimensioned for limiting the piercing of the air passageway wall, and may be releasable from the air passageway for removal of the intra-bronchial device. The anchors may be carried by a peripheral portion of the support structure, or by a central portion of the support structure. The obstructing member may be a one-way valve.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110079221A1 ONE-WAY VALVE DEVICES FOR ANCHORED IMPLANTATION IN A LUNG Public/Granted day:2011-04-07
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