US6053941A
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Stent with an end of greater diameter than its main body
Assignee: Angiomed GmbH and Co Medizentechnik KG
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Filing: 1998-02-09
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Granted: 2000-04-25
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Expires: 2018-02-09
Abstract
Abstract For the better anchoring of a stent in its use area within a vessel, in the case of a stent expandable from a radially contracted introduction state into a radially expanded position state and having a body with material areas in the form of ribs and gaps in the form of free spaces between the ribs, in the radially expanded state at least one front end of the stent has a greater radial extension than the remaining main stent body with the material areas of the body being relatively thin and without material crossing points as in knitted and braided structures.
Inventors
- 👤 Josef Lindenberg
- 👤 Wolfram Schnepp-Pesch
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-23 15:55
CPC Classifications
A; A61; A61F; A61F2/00; A61F2/82; A61F2/86; A61F2/90; A61F2/91; A61F2/915; A61F2002/91533; A61F2002/91541; A61F2002/9155; A61F2002/91558; A61F2230/00; A61F2230/0002; A61F2230/0028; A61F2230/0054
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 12
Claim 1
Independent Claim
197 words
A method of dilating and keeping open a vessel comprising: providing a stent having a body extending along a longitudinal axis of said stent, said body comprising material areas in the form of ribs and gaps in the form of free spaces between the ribs, said body having a radially contracted state for introduction of the stent into a vessel; introducing the stent into a vessel; and radially expanding the stent to dilate and keep open the vessel; wherein said step of providing includes forming said stent body such that said material areas are relatively thin and without material crossing points as in knitted and braided structures which give rise to a greater material thickness, and wherein said step of radially expanding includes expanding the stent to a radially expanded state having at least one end of opposite ends of the body along the longitudinal axis of the stent which has a greater diameter than the remaining body of the stent between said opposite ends with the ribs in the vicinity of said at least one end extending radially outwardly progressively in a direction along said longitudinal axis to said at least one end of the stent.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
197 words
A method of dilating and keeping open a vessel comprising: providing a stent having a body extending along a longitudinal axis of said stent, said body comprising material areas in the form of ribs and gaps in the form of free spaces between the ribs, said body having a radially contracted state for introduction of the stent into a vessel; introducing the stent into a vessel; and radially expanding the stent to dilate and keep open the vessel; wherein said step of providing includes forming said stent body such that said material areas are relatively thin and without material crossing points as in knitted and braided structures which give rise to a greater material thickness, and wherein said step of radially expanding includes expanding the stent to a radially expanded state having at least one end of opposite ends of the body along the longitudinal axis of the stent which has a greater diameter than the remaining body of the stent between said opposite ends with the ribs in the vicinity of said at least one end extending radially outwardly progressively in a direction along said longitudinal axis to said at least one end of the stent.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
33 words
The method according to claim 1, wherein said step of radially expanding is not solely due to elastic properties of the stent and introduction of the stent into the vessel under radial tension.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
47 words
The method according to claim 2, wherein said stent is constructed of a memory metal such that said stent, at a relatively low temperature can assume said radially contracted state for introduction into a vessel, and at a relatively higher temperature in said stent is radially expanded.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
27 words
The method according to claim 3, wherein said stent self expands to said radially expanded state at said relatively higher temperature in said step of radially expanding.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
26 words
The method according to claim 1, wherein said step of providing a stent includes forming said stent body such that said material areas are single layered.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
21 words
The method according to claim 5, wherein said material areas have the same thickness, within a tolerance range of 0.001 mm.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
18 words
The method according to claim 5, wherein said material areas are formed from a single sheet of metal.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
61 words
The method according to claim 5, wherein said step of providing includes cutting slots in a flat metal sheet to form said gaps, bending said flat sheet to a cylindrical contour with marginal edges of said sheet adjacent one another, and welding the adjacent marginal edges of the sheet together to form said stent body with said material areas and gaps.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
32 words
The method according to claim 1, wherein said ribs are extended further axially at said at least one end than within said remaining main body of the stent between said opposite ends.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
180 words
Stent for dilating and keeping open a vessel, said stent comprising a body extending along a longitudinal axis of said stent, which body, in a radially contracted state, permits the stent to be introduced into a vessel and thereafter radially expanded to a radially expanded state in the vessel, wherein said body of the stent in the radially expanded state of the body having at least one end of the opposite ends of the body along the longitudinal axis of the stent which has a greater diameter than the main body of the stent intermediate said opposite ends, wherein said body has material areas in the form of ribs and gaps in the form of free spaces between the ribs, and wherein said material areas are relatively thin and without material crossing points as in knitted and braided structures which give rise to a greater material thickness, and wherein the ribs in the vicinity of said at least one end extend radially outwardly progressively in a direction along said longitudinal axis to said at least one end of the stent.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
180 words
Stent for dilating and keeping open a vessel, said stent comprising a body extending along a longitudinal axis of said stent, which body, in a radially contracted state, permits the stent to be introduced into a vessel and thereafter radially expanded to a radially expanded state in the vessel, wherein said body of the stent in the radially expanded state of the body having at least one end of the opposite ends of the body along the longitudinal axis of the stent which has a greater diameter than the main body of the stent intermediate said opposite ends, wherein said body has material areas in the form of ribs and gaps in the form of free spaces between the ribs, and wherein said material areas are relatively thin and without material crossing points as in knitted and braided structures which give rise to a greater material thickness, and wherein the ribs in the vicinity of said at least one end extend radially outwardly progressively in a direction along said longitudinal axis to said at least one end of the stent.
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