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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:
May. 17, 1994
Filed:
Apr. 08, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Georges Boussignac, 92160 Antony, FR;
Jean-Claude Labrune, 92160 Antony, FR;
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
604 96 ; 604 99 ; 623 12 ; 128-4 ; 606192 ;
Abstract
A catheter for a morphological duct is disclosed, comprising an inflatable sleeve surrounding the distal end of said catheter and connected to the proximal end of said catheter by at least one inflating conduit which can be connected to an inflating device and said inflatable sleeve may take on either a deflated state in which it is applied against said distal end of said catheter, or an inflated state in which it is applied by its external wall against the internal wall of said morphological duct, then forming an annular space between its internal wall and said distal end of said catheter.