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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2016
Applicant:
Hansa Medical Products, Inc., Carmel, IN (US);
Inventors:
Eric D. Blom, Carmel, IN (US);
Brian Kamradt, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Assignee:
HANSA MEDICAL PRODUCTS, INC., Carmel, IN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/20 (2013.01); A61F 2/203 (2013.01); A61F 2210/009 (2013.01);
Abstract
A device for maintaining a tract through a tissue wall having a proximal side and a distal side. The device includes a body, a retainer adjacent an end of the body which will lie on the distal side in the use orientation, and a flange adjacent an end of the body which will lie on the proximal side in the use orientation. The retainer comprises a ferromagnetic material that responds to a magnetic field to maintain the retainer in an undeployed, insertion orientation.