Electrochemical protection of conducting circuit in the body of a patient

    公开(公告)号:US10682172B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-16

    申请号:US15379683

    申请日:2016-12-15

    摘要: The preferred embodiment provides apparatus for ablating a vessel by generating heat within a vessel to cause blood clotting to occlude the vessel. The apparatus includes an electrically resistive element at the distal end of the apparatus, the resistive element being uncoated and therefore in bare form. An alternating current supply feeds electrical current through the resistive element to cause heating of the element and surrounding blood or tissue. The alternating current power supply preferably is balanced about a centre point so as to create a net sum of alternating pulses of zero. It has been found that the supply of alternating current to the resistive element reduces or eliminates corrosion of the resistive element in blood as the resistive element is heated. Use of conductive coatings for a sacrificial anode can be avoided.

    LOCKING MEDICAL GUIDE WIRE
    4.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170224964A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-10

    申请号:US15411504

    申请日:2017-01-20

    IPC分类号: A61M25/09

    摘要: A guide wire includes a plurality of segments which can interlock rotatably relative to one another. A locking element extends through a lumen of the segments. When the locking element is in an unlocked condition the segments are able to rotate relative to one another. In this mode, the guide wire is very flexible. The locking element can be tightened to cause the segments to lock in engagement with one another and to fix the guide wire in position. In practice, the guide wire can be fixed in a curved or bent configuration, which enables the guide wire to provide a rigid support for a microcatheter or other element of an introducer assembly. The guide wire therefore can exhibit both extreme flexibility and stiffness.

    DEPLOYMENT MECHANISM FOR IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES
    6.
    发明申请
    DEPLOYMENT MECHANISM FOR IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES 审中-公开
    可植入医疗器械的部署机制

    公开(公告)号:US20170007261A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-01-12

    申请号:US15204262

    申请日:2016-07-07

    IPC分类号: A61B17/12

    摘要: A system for controlling deployment of an implantable medical includes an implantable medical device and a gripper mechanism. One or both of the medical device and the gripper mechanism are made from a shape-memory alloy material having a temperature at which the material will transition from a martensite state to an austenite state. The shape-memory alloy material has a transition temperature that is higher than a normal body temperature and a wide hysteresis band, with a temperature at which the material transitions back into the martensite state being below a normal body temperature. The medical device will expand or change shape upon being heated by a current passing therethrough, but will not transition into its remembered shape until such current is applied.

    摘要翻译: 用于控制可植入医疗的部署的系统包括可植入医疗装置和夹持器机构。 医疗装置和夹持机构中的一个或两个由具有材料将从马氏体状态转变为奥氏体状态的温度的形状记忆合金材料制成。 形状记忆合金材料具有高于正常体温和宽滞后带的转变温度,其中材料转变回马氏体状态的温度低于正常体温。 医疗装置在通过其中流过的电流加热时会膨胀或变形,但不会过渡到其记忆形状,直到施加电流为止。

    Locking medical guide wire
    8.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10434288B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-08

    申请号:US15411504

    申请日:2017-01-20

    IPC分类号: A61B5/00 A61M25/09

    摘要: A guide wire includes a plurality of segments which can interlock rotatably relative to one another. A locking element extends through a lumen of the segments. When the locking element is in an unlocked condition the segments are able to rotate relative to one another. In this mode, the guide wire is very flexible. The locking element can be tightened to cause the segments to lock in engagement with one another and to fix the guide wire in position. In practice, the guide wire can be fixed in a curved or bent configuration, which enables the guide wire to provide a rigid support for a microcatheter or other element of an introducer assembly. The guide wire therefore can exhibit both extreme flexibility and stiffness.