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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 18, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Takashi Matsumoto, Osaka, JP;
Hajime Tsujikawa, Osaka, JP;
Shunichi Hayashi, Nagoya, JP;
Satoru Kondo, Nagoya, JP;
Atsushi Utsumi, Itami, JP;
Tamotsu Kaide, Amagasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 2/500 ; A61M 5/32 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 2/500 ; A61M 5/32 ;
Abstract
A medical tube made of an organic polymer having a mechanical loss tangent of at least 0.5 at body temperature and a modulus of transverse elasticity of 1-1000 MPa at body temperature. The medical tube of the present invention can be easily inserted into the body, and gives less pain and less feeling of physical disorder during indwelling in the body or removal from the body.