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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2005
Tina Roach, Elk River, MN (US);
Jon Livingston, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Beccie Mccarville, Spring Park, MN (US);
Tina Roach, Elk River, MN (US);
Jon Livingston, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Beccie McCarville, Spring Park, MN (US);
Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Abstract
A crimping system for crimping a stent onto a catheter balloon includes at least one crimping head of moveable contracting members, which define a diameter reduction chamber. The chamber has a length and a longitudinal axis. The chamber has a reduced diameter configuration and a pre-reduction diameter configuration. Each member has a length corresponding to the length of the chamber. In both the reduced diameter configuration and the pre-reduction diameter configuration each member is a given distance from the longitudinal axis, wherein a first region of the length of each member is a greater distance from the longitudinal axis than a second region of the length of each member.