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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:
Oct. 22, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nipro Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 2/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 2/900 ;
Abstract
A balloon catheter comprises a shaft , a ball-shaped balloon twisted in the form of a screw and mounted on the head of the shaft , and a two-way stop cock connected through connection tube with hub on the proximal end of the shaft . Injection opening for physiological saline is arranged on the proximal end of the two-way stopcock in order to inflate the balloon. The balloon catheter in the present invention, of which the balloon is of a small diameter during deflation and for which a thinner sheath introducer can be used, can readily occlude a blood vessel.