Medical devices with selective titanium oxide coatings

US8771343B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Jan Weber · Maple Grove, US
• Liliana Atanasoska · Edina, US
• James Lee Shippy, III · Maple Grove, US
• Edward E. Parsonage · Windom, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 15, 2007
• Grant date: Jul 8, 2014
• Expiry date: Sep 28, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B05D1/32
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Medical devices, such as endoprostheses, and methods of making the devices are described. In some embodiments, a medical device includes a body of interconnected bands and connectors forming an elongated tubular structure having an inner luminal wall surface and an outer abluminal wall surface and defining a central lumen or passageway. The inner luminal wall surface and side wall surface of the bands and connectors forming transverse passageways through the elongated tubular structure can bear a coating of hydrophilic material and the outer abluminal wall surface of the tubular structure can bear a coating of hydrophobic material.