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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2007
Rainer Bregulla, Balingen, DE;
Rainer Bregulla, Balingen, DE;
Abbott Laboratories Vascular Enterprises Limited, Dublin, IE;
Abstract
The present invention relates to an endoprosthesis having a web structure that is expandable from a contracted configuration to an expanded configuration and that includes a plurality of longitudinally adjacent web rings. Each of the web rings is defined by web elements disposed circumferentially around a longitudinal axis, which are adjoined one to the other at junction bends. A first junction bend in a first web ring is coupled to a second junction bend in a second web ring by a connector which includes three or more struts of essentially equal length that extend circumferentially in essentially parallel directions. The struts of the connector are adjoined in sequence by coupling segments that, in one embodiment of the invention, are arcuate in shape.