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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2004
Applicants:
Michael Ehrlinspiel, Weingarten, DE;
Eric Flaxmeier, Karlsbad, DE;
Inventors:
Michael Ehrlinspiel, Weingarten, DE;
Eric Flaxmeier, Karlsbad, DE;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/06 (2006.01); A61F 2/74 (2006.01); A61F 11/00 (2006.01); A61M 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A flexible shaft () to be inserted into a channel of a living body provided with a plurality of adjacently abutting cells (), the walls () of which are formed from wall sections. For this reason the flexible shaft (), which is particularly cost-effective to produce and which demonstrates high flexibility paired with ample stability, is constructed such that in at least one cell () in the cross-section of the wall () a concave wall section () is circumferentially alternated with a corresponding neighboring convex wall section ().