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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2007
Ramon Arana, Temecula, CA (US);
Daniel Brown, Temecula, CA (US);
Curt A. Novak, Corona, CA (US);
Justin K. Mann, Murrieta, CA (US);
John A. Simpson, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Bruce M. Wilson, Temecula, CA (US);
Leonard D. Barbod, San Diego, CA (US);
Ramon Arana, Temecula, CA (US);
Daniel Brown, Temecula, CA (US);
Curt A. Novak, Corona, CA (US);
Justin K. Mann, Murrieta, CA (US);
John A. Simpson, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Bruce M. Wilson, Temecula, CA (US);
Leonard D. Barbod, San Diego, CA (US);
Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A catheter having shaft segments which are joined together by a strong bond providing a low profile shaft section with a flexibility transition and/or a compositional transition. A balloon catheter embodying features of the invention has a distal tip member and a coupling band member surrounding a junction of an inner tubular member of the shaft, and has a gradual change in bending stiffness along a distal end section of the shaft which extends distally from a location within the balloon interior. Another catheter embodying features of the invention has shaft segments joined together by a diagonal seam.