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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2022
Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Yuichi Tada, Tokyo, JP;
Mizuho Hirao, Sagamihara, JP;
TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A medical device is disclosed that can help prevent an object existing in a body lumen from clogging a lumen of an elongated member. The medical device including an elongated member having a lumen extending in an axial direction; an insertion member inserted in the lumen of the elongated member on a distal side of the lumen; and a breaking member fixed on an inner surface of the elongated member such that a gap is formed between the insertion member and the breaking member in the lumen of the elongated member on the distal side, and wherein the breaking member exerts a shearing force or a stretching force to the object by rotating relative to the insertion member while the object is between the insertion member and the breaking member.