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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2005
Applicants:
David Ernest Hartley, Subiaco, AU;
Eric L. G. Verhoeven, Glinnen, NL;
Inventors:
David Ernest Hartley, Subiaco, AU;
Eric L. G. Verhoeven, Glinnen, NL;
Assignees:
William A. Cook Australia Pty. Ltd., Queensland, AU;
Cook Medical Technologies LLC, Bloomington, IN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A connection socket () for an end of a stent graft or a side arm () of a stent graft. The connection socket has a first resilient ring () around the arm at its end, a second resilient ring () spaced apart along the arm from the first ring and optionally a zig zag resilient stent () between the first and second rings. Each of the rings is of slightly lesser diameter than the side arm. The zig-zag resilient stent can be a compression stent.