Metal working – Means to assemble or disassemble – Tube – sleeve or ferrule
Patent
1997-11-03
1999-07-13
Gorski, Joseph M.
Metal working
Means to assemble or disassemble
Tube, sleeve or ferrule
29151, 29516, 606 1, 606108, 606198, 623 1, B23P 1100
Patent
active
059209755
ABSTRACT:
A stent crimping tool for firmly and uniformly crimping a stent onto a catheter. The stent crimping tool is constructed from a base having two vertically extending spaced apart supports and a coiled tension spring affixed at one end to a shaft and at the opposite end to one of the vertical supports. When a stent is loaded onto the balloon portion of a catheter, and the stent-catheter assembly is inserted into an axial space within the coiled spring, the user can rotate the shaft to twist the coiled spring thereby constricting it, and in turn the constriction of the coiled spring uniformly crimps the stent onto the balloon catheter.
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Advanced Cardiovascular Systems Inc.
Gorski Joseph M.
Preta John
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