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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. 31, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 2/500 ; A61M 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 2/500 ; A61M 5/00 ;
Abstract
A catheter of the present invention is used for angiography and has a tube body (catheter tube) having a lumen, a front end opening communicating with the lumen, and a side aperture communicating with the lumen. The side aperture is obliquely formed from the inner peripheral surface of the tube body to the peripheral surface thereof, namely, from the inner side of the tube body to the outer side thereof such that the side aperture is directed toward the front side of the tube body.