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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:
Mar. 26, 1991
Filed:
Mar. 13, 1989
Samuel Shiber, Woburn, MA (US);
Surgical Systems & Instruments, Inc., Mundelen, IL (US);
Abstract
An atherectomy system for cutting an obstruction in a patient's vessel, comprising a flexible guide-wire insertable into the vessel, a flexible rotary-catheter being rotatably disposed and insertable into the vessel, over the flexible guide-wire, a cutting means for cutting the obstruction, at a distal end of the flexible rotaty-catheter, coupling means at the proximal end of the flexible rotary-catheter for engaging a drive means and at least one torque limiting clutch interposed between the drive means and the cutting means, limiting the torque transmitted distally.
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