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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 9901955 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2016

Balloon coating method

Applicant:

Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yasuo Kurosaki, Kanagawa, JP;

Hiroshi Goto, Kanagawa, JP;

Eisuke Furuichi, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Cachet I Sellman

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B05D 1/26 (2006.01); A61M 25/10 (2013.01); B05C 5/02 (2006.01); B05C 13/02 (2006.01); B05D 7/04 (2006.01); B05D 1/00 (2006.01); A61L 29/16 (2006.01); A61L 29/08 (2006.01); B05B 13/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B05D 1/26 (2013.01); A61L 29/08 (2013.01); A61L 29/16 (2013.01); A61M 25/10 (2013.01); A61M 25/1029 (2013.01); B05C 5/02 (2013.01); B05C 5/0208 (2013.01); B05C 5/0216 (2013.01); B05C 13/025 (2013.01); B05D 1/002 (2013.01); B05D 7/04 (2013.01); A61L 2300/416 (2013.01); A61L 2420/02 (2013.01); A61M 2025/1031 (2013.01); B05B 13/0442 (2013.01);
Abstract

A balloon coating method is disclosed, which includes an application step in which, where a flexible dispensing tube for supplying a coating solution containing the water-insoluble drug and a solvent is formed at its end portion with an opening portion for discharging the coating solution therethrough and when the opening portion-formed end portion side of the dispensing tube is kept in contact with the outer surface of the balloon in such a manner as to be oriented in a direction opposite to a rotating direction of the balloon while the balloon is rotated about an axis of the balloon, the coating solution is discharged through the opening portion and applied to the outer surface of the balloon while the dispensing tube is moved relative to the balloon in an axial direction X of the balloon.

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