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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2011
Filed:
May. 22, 2006
Daniel J. Horn, Shoreview, MN (US);
John J. Chen, Plymouth, MN (US);
Aaron Khieu, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Daniel J. Horn, Shoreview, MN (US);
John J. Chen, Plymouth, MN (US);
Aaron Khieu, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Abstract
Composite fiber reinforced balloons for medical devices are prepared by applying a web of fibers to the exterior of a preformed underlayer balloon which has been pressurized and expanded to a predetermined pressure or above ambient size, encasing the web with a matrix material to form an assembly with the fiber web bonded to the underlayer balloon. The assembly may have an outer layer formed by inserting the assembly into a preformed outer layer balloon. The overlayer balloon can be bonded to the assembly during a heat set step.