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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2002
Steven L. Waldhauser, Circle Pines, MN (US);
James R. Skarda, Lake Elmo, MN (US);
Jeffrey B. Geske, Fridley, MN (US);
Gregory P. Shipe, Plymouth, MN (US);
Eduard T. Teisanu, Brooklyn Park, MN (US);
Steven L. Waldhauser, Circle Pines, MN (US);
James R. Skarda, Lake Elmo, MN (US);
Jeffrey B. Geske, Fridley, MN (US);
Gregory P. Shipe, Plymouth, MN (US);
Eduard T. Teisanu, Brooklyn Park, MN (US);
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
A steerable catheter and methods of fabrication including a catheter body formed of a continuous wire braid formed of wires braided over a delivery lumen liner and a pull wire lumen liner distal to a pull wire jacket port, braided around the pull wire jacket port to form a braid port, and over at least a portion of the delivery lumen liner proximal to the pull wire jacket port. A pull wire extends from a pull wire proximal end through the pull wire lumen port and through the pull wire lumen to a pull wire distal end. A band is attached to the pull wire distal end and fitted over a distal segment of the wire braid proximal to the catheter body distal end to fix the pull wire distal end to the catheter body and restrain the wire distal end from flaring away from the delivery lumen liner.