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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2012
Phillip Burwell, Snohomish, WA (US);
James C. Chen, Clyde Hill, WA (US);
Zihong Guo, Bellevue, WA (US);
Steven R. Daly, Sammamish, WA (US);
David B. Shine, Littleton, CO (US);
Gary Lichttenegger, Woodinville, WA (US);
Jennifer K. Matson, Renton, WA (US);
Jean Bishop, Issaquah, WA (US);
Nick Yeo, Horsham, GB;
Hugh Narciso, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Phillip Burwell, Snohomish, WA (US);
James C. Chen, Clyde Hill, WA (US);
Zihong Guo, Bellevue, WA (US);
Steven R. Daly, Sammamish, WA (US);
David B. Shine, Littleton, CO (US);
Gary Lichttenegger, Woodinville, WA (US);
Jennifer K. Matson, Renton, WA (US);
Jean Bishop, Issaquah, WA (US);
Nick Yeo, Horsham, GB;
Hugh Narciso, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Purdue Pharmaceutical Products L.P., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A method of manufacture and medical apparatus that provides an apparatus useful in illuminating at least a portion of a lumen of a body. The apparatus includes an elongated flexible member and a polymer encasement portion encasing a plurality of light emitters. The light emitters may be electrically coupled to one another without the use of wire bonds, and in some embodiments may be coupled without intervening electrical paths or traces. A maximum cross-sectional dimension of the polymer encasement portion may be less than twice a dimension of one of the light emitters. In some embodiments the maximum cross-sectional dimension is less than or equal to the sum of the dimension of one of the light emitters and a marginal dimension by which an outer portion of the polymer encasement portion extends beyond the light emitter. Light emitters may be arranged linearly, helically or in partially overlapping back-to-back relation.