Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.

Celenia Gutierrez

Yung Ming Chen

Jeff H Smith

Yung-Ming Chen

Nathan Harold

Andrew Tochterman

Ian Coulson

Ryan E Guerriero

A collet shaped to minimize the contact area of a stent end with a surface of the collet. The collet has an end surface for contacting a stent end that includes a raised or projecting portion and a flat or relatively flat portion. The projecting, portion has at least three segments radiating from a center to the edge of the surface.

Stent support devices

A sleeve is positioned over a radially-expandable rod assembly and a stent is positioned over the sleeve. A mandrel is inserted into the rod assembly to thereby press the sleeve against the inner surface of the stent and expand the stent. A coating (such as a solvent, a polymer and/or a therapeutic substance) is then applied to the outer (abluminal) surfaces of the stent, by spraying, for example. The sleeve advantageously prevents the coating material from being applied to inner (luminal) surfaces of the stent and also allows the coating material to be efficiently applied to the abluminal surfaces.

Coating abluminal surfaces of stents and other implantable medical devices

Various embodiments of methods and devices for coating stents are described herein.

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Celenia Gutierrez