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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:
Nov. 29, 1994
Filed:
Oct. 15, 1993
L Venkata Raman, Framingham, MA (US);
Stephen M Salmon, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
C. R. Bard, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A guidewire is provided having a malleable segment extending beyond a superelastic tip portion of the guidewire. Such a configuration provides a guidewire which is resistant to kinking and plastic deformation in the superelastic portion, but which has a distal segment which can be shaped by a physician immediately prior to use in a surgical procedure. The malleable segment can be attached to the distal end of the superelastic tip portion, or alternatively, can result from a malleable coating on a portion of the superelastic tip, wherein the coating is thick enough to allow the coated portion of the tip to be formed into a desired shape. The malleable segment can be radiopaque to ease fluoroscopic visualization of the guidewire. In addition, the entire guidewire located proximally to the malleable segment can be fabricated from a superelastic alloy to provide resistance to kinking and plastic deformation along virtually the entire length of the guidewire.
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