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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2005
Benjamin Gundale, St. Louis Park, MN (US);
David Broman, Rogers, MN (US);
Todd Rowe, Excelsior, MN (US);
Benjamin Gundale, St. Louis Park, MN (US);
David Broman, Rogers, MN (US);
Todd Rowe, Excelsior, MN (US);
BostonScientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Abstract
A stent delivery system which has a stent, a catheter, and a tether. The catheter has a balloon with at least one fold. The balloon and the stent both have unexpanded configurations with smaller diameters and expanded configurations with greater diameters. The tether defines a length and has a first end connected to the unexpanded stent and a contacting span enwrapped within the fold of the unexpanded balloon. The tether holds the unexpanded stent to the unexpanded balloon and releases the expanded stent from the expanded balloon.