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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2017
Spiration, Inc., Redmond, WA (US);
Jason T. Panzenbeck, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael S. Smith, Sammamish, WA (US);
Spiration, Inc., Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A needle system includes a needle, a needle handle coupled to a proximal end of the needle and a needle stiffening device. The needle stiffening device includes a first handle portion, a second handle portion, a stylet having a distal end component and a shaft component, a fixing component configured to fix a proximal end of the stylet to the first handle portion, a hollow component configured to slidably receive the shaft component of the stylet and a compression device having a proximal end that makes contact with a distal end of the hollow component and a distal end that makes contact with the distal end component of the stylet. A distal end of the second handle portion makes contact with a proximal end of the hollow component within the first handle portion.