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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 24, 2010
Kimihiko Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Hirotoshi Fuse, Tokyo, JP;
Takakazu Tomizawa, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiyuki Sugawara, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshio Fukamatsu, Tokyo, JP;
Eiji Kaneko, Tokyo, JP;
Kimihiko Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Hirotoshi Fuse, Tokyo, JP;
Takakazu Tomizawa, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiyuki Sugawara, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshio Fukamatsu, Tokyo, JP;
Eiji Kaneko, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To provide a balloon catheter and an apparatus and method for manufacturing the balloon catheter, whereby the degree of welding can be appropriately adjusted and the balloon catheter can be formed so as to have a desired surface profile suitable for various uses including medical use. With a shaftinserted through a catheter tubeinserted into an end portionof a balloon and also with a pressure tubefitted around a welding section where the end portionof the balloonis lapped over the catheter tube, the shaftis heated by emitting laser light from a laser radiation unitto the welding section while the shaftis rotated by a chuck, to weld the welding section.