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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
May. 16, 2013
Applicant:
Lake Region Manufacturing, Inc., Chaska, MN (US);
Inventor:
Henry W. Lupton, Oranmore, IE;
Assignee:
Lake Region Manufacturing, Inc., Chaska, MN (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 25/09 (2006.01); A61B 17/22 (2006.01); A61B 17/221 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 25/09 (2013.01); A61B 17/221 (2013.01); A61M 25/09041 (2013.01); A61B 2017/2215 (2013.01); A61B 2017/22035 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a device and a method for capturing a guidewire being progressed along the lumen of a bodily duct and to direct it into a catheter. In one aspect a catheter-based eccentric cone capture structure is used to engage and direct a guidewire oppositely approaching the capture structure.