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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2011
Tsunenori Arai, Yokohama, JP;
Natsumi Shimazaki, Yokohama, JP;
Katsuya Miyagawa, Osaka, JP;
Yuuki Nishimura, Osaka, JP;
Misa Kakinoki, Osaka, JP;
Tsunenori Arai, Yokohama, JP;
Natsumi Shimazaki, Yokohama, JP;
Katsuya Miyagawa, Osaka, JP;
Yuuki Nishimura, Osaka, JP;
Misa Kakinoki, Osaka, JP;
KEIO UNIVERSITY, Tokyo, JP;
NIPRO CORPORATION, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A balloon catheter of novel configuration, which is capable of both efficiently heating a heating element by using a laser light and of ensuring durability by avoiding the laser light directly heating members other than the heating element. Provided is a balloon catheter with a balloon disposed in a distal end section of a shaft and wherein: a tightly wound coil shaped heating element is housed and arranged in the balloon; an optical fiber that irradiates a laser light inside the heating element is disposed; and a supply path that supplies a fluid to inside the balloon through an inside of the heating element and a discharge path that discharges the fluid from inside the balloon through a discharge port positioned on an outside of the heating element are disposed.