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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2005
James E. Windheuser, Hopkinton, MA (US);
James Yearick, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Oscar Carrillo, Jr., Attleboro, MA (US);
Robert C. Allman, Wakefield, MA (US);
Fernando Alvarez DE Toledo, Concord, MA (US);
Stephen C. Evans, Westford, MA (US);
Norman C. May, Franklin, MA (US);
James E. Windheuser, Hopkinton, MA (US);
James Yearick, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Oscar Carrillo, Jr., Attleboro, MA (US);
Robert C. Allman, Wakefield, MA (US);
Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Concord, MA (US);
Stephen C. Evans, Westford, MA (US);
Norman C. May, Franklin, MA (US);
SciMed Life Systems, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Abstract
An insertion tool for use in inserting a guide wire into a guide wire lumen of a catheter for use in a lumen of an endoscope. The insertion tool includes a main body having a main lumen and a funnel-shaped extension connected to and disposed atop the main body. The funnel-shaped extension having a funnel lumen. The funnel lumen has a top opening and a bottom opening. The funnel lumen tapering from the top opening to the bottom opening. The bottom opening positioned and sized to communicate with the guide wire lumen of the catheter such that, when the catheter is disposed in the main lumen, the guide wire may be easily inserted into the top opening of the funnel lumen and into the guide wire lumen of the catheter.