Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.

Scimed Life Systems, Inc.

Boston Scientific Corporation

Leo M Klisch

Thomas J Holman

Terry V Brown

Lixiao Wang

Christopher R Larson

Richard J Olson

Daniel Keith Tomaschko

Richard Dunn

Nie Tang

Joseph M Lyver

Lawrence W Ulanowski

David Griswold

Charles L Euteneuer

Louis G Ellis

Andrew Joseph Dusbabek

Scott M Hanson

Steven Paul Mertens

Vladimir B Tsukernik

Linda R Lorentzen Cornelius

Afsar Ali

Richard A Noddin

Victor Shukhat

August L Powell

John W Humphrey

Steven M Spencer

Jonathan C Sell

Nam H Hoang

Justin Plessel

Scott R Schewe

Jan Weber

James Lee Iii Shippy

A hub assembly and methods of attaching the same to a catheter shaft. The hub assembly includes a strain relief coupled to a hub. The strain relief may be mechanically coupled to the hub. The hub assembly may be manufactured in a non-clean room environment, and subsequently connected to the catheter shaft in a clean room.

Insert molded hub and strain relief

The present invention is directed to distal tip designs for catheter, wherein distal tip material is positioned about an inner shaft. The distal tip material may also be used as a tie layer for thermally bonding two incompatible materials together, such as a waist portion of a balloon to the inner shaft.

Balloon catheter tip design

A method of making a medical device includes positioning a tool within a lumen of an elongated workpiece and discharging electric current across a gap between the tool and the workpiece to remove a portion of the workpiece.

Medical devices and methods of making the same

Catheter distal tip

An apparatus for tacking a multi-lumen tubular assembly together comprises a laser, an optical member and a placement tray for retaining the tubular assembly. A portion of the optical member defines a window that is substantially transparent to laser energy emitted from the laser. The window has a substantially concave shaped surface. The placement tray and the window surface define a processing area for positioning at least a portion of the tubular assembly. The processing area receives the laser energy that is emitted from the laser and passed through the window of the optical member. The tubular assembly is defined by an outer tubular member disposed about at least a portion of at least one inner tubular member. The laser energy transmitted into the processing area is transmitted substantially through the outer tubular member and is substantially absorbed by at least one region of the least one inner tubular member.

Tacking method and apparatus

Apparatus and method for treating medical implants are provided. The apparatus may include a vessel having a treatment chamber with an inside surface, an outside surface, an entrance, a plurality of fluid passages passing from the outside surface to the inside surface, and a compressible fluid supply line coupled to at least one of the fluid passages. In this embodiment, passages may be positioned and sized to create a buffer zone of compressible fluids between the inside surface of the treatment chamber and a medical implant placed therein. The method may include placing a first medical implant into a treatment chamber having inside surfaces, retarding the first medical implant from contacting the inside surfaces of the treatment chamber by injecting compressible fluid into the treatment chamber, injecting a therapeutic into the treatment chamber, and removing the first medical implant.

Medical implant processing chamber

A stent crimper comprising a plurality of crimping members extending between a first support and a second support. The first and optionally the second supports has an opening therethrough sized to allow a stent therethrough. The first and second supports extend from a base. The crimping members are disposed about the circumference of a circle everywhere along the length of the members. Finally, the flexible members extend through a bore in a die. The die is movable in an axial direction along the flexible members.

Radial stent crimper

A stent crimper is formed of at least one crimping member disposed in a reducible diameter loop. The crimping member includes at least one pulling member extending from the loop. The diameter of the loop is reduced by pulling on the pulling member. A stent placed in the loop may be crimped by reducing the diameter of the loop.

Stent crimping system

An apparatus for crimping a stent to a catheter as well as a method for crimping a stent to a catheter are disclosed in several embodiments. The apparatus in its various embodiments involves the application of a uniform radially inward force to a compressible tube in which the stent and catheter are situated.

Stent crimper

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Maple Grove, MN, United States of America

Leo M Klisch