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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2007
Donald Schon, Paradise Valley, AZ (US);
Timothy Schweikert, Levittown, PA (US);
John Stephens, Perkiomenville, PA (US);
Donald Schon, Paradise Valley, AZ (US);
Timothy Schweikert, Levittown, PA (US);
John Stephens, Perkiomenville, PA (US);
Medical Components, Inc., Harleysville, PA (US);
TwinCath, LLC, Paradise Valley, AZ (US);
Abstract
A dilator () for expanding a vessel incision to assist insertion of a catheter thereinto and having a distal end () and a proximal end (). The dilator has two portions () that are assembled together at a hinge () permitting angled-apart proximal ends () of the two portions at the proximal end () to be squeezed together about the hinge which slightly spreads apart the respective distal ends () of the two portions to enlarge the incision into the vessel. A spring () biases apart the proximal ends of the two portions to maintain the two distal ends () together until pried apart as desired to dilate the vessel incision.