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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:
Aug. 31, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 17, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gary S Falwell, Manchester, NH (US);
Sarkis Karakozian, Belmont, MA (US);
Assignee:
C.R. Bard, Inc., Murry Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
604 95 ; 600146 ;
Abstract
A steerable catheter control mechanism for manipulating a pair of catheter control wires comprises a slider mechanism coupled to the proximal ends of the control wires and displaceable along a linear path to place a selected one of said wires in tension without placing the other of said wires in compression.
Published as:
CA2283243A1; WO9841276A1; US5944690A; EP1019138A1; JP2001516257A; EP1019138B1; DE69831497D1; ES2247686T3; DE69831497T2;