Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha

Satoru Kanuka

Shigeki Numata

Akihiko Umeno

Katsuhiro Shirakawa

Yutaka Tano

Noriyuki Tamai

Tomokane Kurosawa

Toshihiko Asao

Chikei Shinohara

A protector which is used to cover a distal portion of a guide wire protruding from a distal opening of a tube body includes a first half body and a second half body which are movable between an open state and a closed state. Each of the first half body and the second half body includes a guide wire sandwiching and holding portion which mutually sandwich and hold the distal portion of the guide wire cooperatively in the closed state of the protector. Each of the first half body and the second half body also includes a tube body sandwiching and holding portion which mutually sandwich and hold the tube body cooperatively in the closed state of the protector.

Protector

A medical guide wire includes a core wire having a distal portion, and a cover portion formed of a resin for covering at least the distal portion of the core wire, and is provided with a distal shape portion having a curved portion, wherein the distal portion of the core wire includes a tapered portion continuously varied in outside diameter, and a distal flexible portion provided on the distal side of the tapered portion, and the wire diameter variation rate at the tapered portion is 40 to 55%.

Medical guide wire

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Fujinomiya, Japan

Satoru Kanuka