Surgery – Instruments – Light application
Reexamination Certificate
2005-11-08
2005-11-08
Peffley, Michael (Department: 3739)
Surgery
Instruments
Light application
C606S015000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06962585
ABSTRACT:
An artery blockage removal system including a hollow plastic tube with IR optical fibers extending longitudinally between its inner and outer walls, the end of the tube having a metal clad tip ring preferably of gold abutting against the end of the IR optical fibers, and the outer surface of the hollow plastic tube having curved arterial guards molded into its outer circumference to hold the inner walls of the artery away from the hollow plastic tube and metal clad tip ring to avoid physical and thermal damage to the inner artery walls, whereby arterial blockage is removed through application of the metal clad tip ring heated by the IR optical fibers and a vacuum applied through the center of the hollow tubing.
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Lester Gerald E.
Peffley Michael
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