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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 1990
Filed:
Feb. 15, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin and Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
604247 ; 604265 ; 604275 ; 604280 ;
Abstract
A medical catheter for intravascular long-term infusion of medication by an implanted or extracorporeal dosage device characterized by the catheter tube being of a single or multi-layer elastomer having a distal end shaped such that the exit opening for the medication is laterally arranged axially offset relative to the distal end of the catheter. The catheter is also coated with an external protective layer composed of a hydrogel.