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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. 23, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 18, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Rainer Amann, Klettgau/Riedern a.S., DE;
Erwin Berger, Mattwil, CH;
Assignee:
Schneider (Europe) A.G., Bulach, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
606192 ; 604104 ; 604527 ; 604536 ;
Abstract
A balloon catheter with a tubular catheter shaft having a proximal and a distal end. The elongated dilatation balloon is arranged on the catheter shaft in the vicinity of the distal end. An indispensable covering sleeve is movable along the catheter shaft. The covering sleeve has a first portion with a first inner diameter surrounding the catheter shaft and a second portion with a second inner diameter being pushable over the deflated dilatation balloon. The second inner diameter is larger than said first inner diameter. The covering sleeve provides continuous adjustability of the fuller expandable balloon length.