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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2017
Svelte Medical Systems, Inc., New Providence, NJ (US);
Fernando DiCaprio, St. Paul, MN (US);
Svelte Medical Systems, Inc., New Providence, NJ (US);
Abstract
A balloon delivery catheter apparatus including a catheter tubing defining a lumen therethrough, a balloon disposed near a distal end of the catheter tubing and moving between deflated and inflated states, and a core wire having a proximal end attached to the catheter tubing inside the lumen and extending distally away and substantially co-axially with the catheter tubing through the balloon to a distal free end. Proximal and distal balloon control bands are concentrically arranged around respective proximal and distal end portions of the balloon. A coil disposed around the core wire has a proximal end attached to at least one of the distal end portion of the balloon and the distal balloon control band.