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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2005
Barry Heaney, Ballybrit, IE;
Gabriel Sobrino Serrano, Kinvara, IE;
Michael Austin, Newport, IE;
John Motherwell, Kinvara, IE;
Barry Heaney, Ballybrit, IE;
Gabriel Sobrino Serrano, Kinvara, IE;
Michael Austin, Newport, IE;
John Motherwell, Kinvara, IE;
Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Abstract
A stent loading system comprises a contracting aperture device having blades defining a contracting aperture and a fluid supply source. The blades are movable so as to vary the size of the contracting aperture. A stream of fluid is supplied by a fluid supply source and enters the contracting aperture and travels longitudinally through the contracting aperture. The stream of fluid is arranged to transport a stent from the contracting aperture contracting aperture and outside the contracting aperture device.