Asahi Intecc Co., Ltd.

Asahi Intell Co. Ltd.

Kazuyuki Shimada

Naohiko Miyata

Masashi Momota

A guide wire for medical purposes having a proximal section and a distal section and formed by inserting all or a portion of a slender and flexible shaft into a coil and fixing the shaft to the coil, wherein the coil is a multiple-wire coil consisting of at least two pieces of wire, at least one of these pieces of wire is made of a material which is opaque against radioactive rays such as X-rays, and a portion of the coil closer to the distal section of the shaft is a single-wire coil consisting of only a composite wire made of the radiopaque material.

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A guide wire for medical purposes having a proximal section and a distal section and formed by inserting all or a portion of a slender and flexible shaft into a coil and fixing the shaft to the coil, wherein the coil is a multiple-wire coil consisting of at least 2 wire rods, at least one of these wire rods is made of a material which is opaque against radioactive rays such as X ray, and a portion of the coil close to the distal section of the shaft is a single-wire coil consisting of only a wire rod made of the radiopaque material.

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Seto, Japan

Kazuyuki Shimada