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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:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Super Dimension Ltd., Herzelia, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 3/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 3/700 ;
Abstract
A steering configuration for facilitating steering of a catheter or the like provided with a rigid distal device employs a flexible support element to which a rigid device is attached at its distal end. At least one elongated flexible control element is configured such that tension applied to the control element causes flexing of the flexible support element. The control element is directly attached to the rigid device, thereby rendering the rigid device an operative extension of the steering mechanism.