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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2017
Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Junichi Kobayashi, Cupertino, CA (US);
Tomonori Hatta, Cupertino, CA (US);
Taiga Nakano, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A medical device is disclosed for collecting substances inside a body lumen. The medical device includes an elongated shaft portion; a filter portion that has multiple gaps, that is formed in a net shape, that is deformable to be in an expanded state where the filter portion has a basket shape so as to form a concave portion, and that is deformable from the expanded state to be in a contracted state where an opening end portion of the concave portion is contracted; and a support portion that is formed to include a gap larger than gaps of the filter portion and that includes an interlock portion interlocked with the opening end portion of the filter portion and a support side connection portion connected to the shaft portion.