System for detaching an occlusive device within a body using a solderless, electrolytically severable joint

US6056761A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Target Therapeutics, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Son Gia · San Jose, US
• Hong Doan · Santa Clara, US
• Pete Phong Pham · Fremont, US
• Ivan Sepetka · Los Altos, US
• U. Hiram Chee · Santa Cruz, US
• Michael J. Mariant · San Jose, US
• David J. Kupiecki · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 4, 1996
• Grant date: May 2, 2000
• Expiry date: Nov 4, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

A solderless sacrificial link between a detachable member which is placed at and is intended to remain at a desired site within the mammalian body and the core wire used to introduce the detachable member. The detachable member device may be one used to create emboli in the vascular system or may be of any other type deliverable into the human body and detached into an ionic aqueous environment, either for later removal or permanent placement.