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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2019
Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Michael J. Kane, Saint Paul, MN (US);
Kevin Robert Poppe, New Brighton, MN (US);
Stephen J. Burke, Clonmel, IE;
Daniel J. Foster, Lino Lakes, MN (US);
Peter James Keogh, Dublin, IE;
Bradley S. Swehla, Eagan, MN (US);
Christopher Jay Scheff, Elk River, MN (US);
Laura Kathryn Irvine, Woodbury, MN (US);
Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Abstract
A delivery system for an implantable medical device includes an outer shaft defining an outer shaft lumen and an inner shaft translatable within the outer shaft lumen, the inner shaft defining a lumen extending through the inner shaft. An actuation mechanism extends through the lumen and includes a coupler, a force translation rod that extends proximally from the coupler and a plurality of push pull rods that extend distally from the coupler and that releasably couple to the implantable medical device. The force translation rod includes a transition in electromagnetic permeability. The delivery system includes an inductive coil disposed relative to the force translation rod and positioned to detect a change in inductance resulting from the transition in electromagnetic permeability passing through the inductive coil.