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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2014
Applicant:
Asahi Intecc Co., Ltd., Nagoya-shi, Aichi, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
ASAHI INTECC CO., LTD., Nagoya-shi, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61M 25/00 (2006.01); A61M 25/09 (2006.01); B21F 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 25/09016 (2013.01); A61M 25/09 (2013.01); A61M 2025/09075 (2013.01); A61M 2025/09083 (2013.01); A61M 2025/09108 (2013.01); A61M 2025/09133 (2013.01); A61M 2025/09191 (2013.01); B21F 7/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A shaft suppresses a permanent set, or plastic deformation, even when inserted into an extremely winding blood vessel. A guidewire incorporates the above shaft. The shaft is twisted along its longitudinal axis and has a cross section forming a substantially rectangular shape extending in a first direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The cross section has at least one arcuate recess.