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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2002
John Jianhua Chen, Plymouth, MN (US);
Douglas A. Devens, Jr., St. Paul, MN (US);
Paul James Miller, Vadnais Heights, MN (US);
Edward Parsonage, St. Paul, MN (US);
John Jianhua Chen, Plymouth, MN (US);
Douglas A. Devens, Jr., St. Paul, MN (US);
Paul James Miller, Vadnais Heights, MN (US);
Edward Parsonage, St. Paul, MN (US);
Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Abstract
A medical tubing is disclosed which includes a first material extending between proximal and distal ends of the tubing and which defines a lumen of the tubing. The tubing also includes a second material extending between at least portion of the distance between the proximal and distal ends of the tubing and that is embedded in the first material. The second material is fractured. The first material is flexible and the second material is relatively rigid and brittle and the two materials combined to provide a medical tubing that exhibits strain softening behavior.