Process of making a guide wire for a catheter
US5897819A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 30, 1997 |
| Grant date | Apr 27, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 30, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T428/2976
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
In a guide wire is for a catheter, a core wire prepared by twisting a plurality of thin threads in which a leading end of the core wire is diametrically reduced to be a thinnest tip. A resin layer is coated on an outer surface of the core wire. The thinnest tip is treated by tightly uniting together a twisted ends of the thinnest threads.
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