Device for fixing a tube member

Details Device for fixing a tube member Device for fixing a tube member

2007-04-24

2007-04-24

Lucchesi, Nicholas (Department: 3763)

Surgery

Means for introducing or removing material from body for...

Treating material introduced into or removed from body...

C604S103060, C604S096010

Reexamination Certificate

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10381410

ABSTRACT:
A device for fixing a tube member in a cavity of a patient. The device includes a body that surrounds the tube member and has a casing that at least partly forms an inner space. The body is expandable by supplying a fluid to the inner space in such a way that the fluid in the inner space has a working pressure. Furthermore, the body has, in a non-expanded state, a relatively small outer extent, which permits the introduction into said cavity, and in an expanded state, a relatively large outer extend, which permits fixing in said cavity by abutment with a contact pressure against a tubular wall of the cavity. In order to ensure a tight abutment against the wall of the cavity, the body has such a geometrical shape that the contact pressure is substantially constant independent of variations of the working pressure within a normal working range.

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