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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. 21, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 27, 1997
Joy E. Morris, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Edwin Petrus Mahieu, Murrieta, CA (US);
Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
This invention comprises a guidewire with a tenacious lubricious coating on its surface comprising a finely divided lubricious particulate. The coatings of this invention have a thickness of not more than about 0.00002 inch, a coefficient of friction of not more than about 0.030 and a hardness not less than about 1.0 Mohs. Preferably, the surface coating comprises a monomolecular layer of particulate tungsten disulfide. The guidewire of this invention incorporates an improved distal tip configuration comprising a flexible elongate core member which has at least one tapered section at its distal extremity and a flattened distal portion. The distal portion has two or more flattened regions having cross-sectional areas which decrease in the distal direction. A flexible helical coil is attached to the core member and comprises three or more distinct regions, each having increasing coil spacing in the distal direction. Preferably, the entire length of the guidewire proximal to the helical coil has the lubricious particulate surface coating of the invention.