Guidewire tip construction
USRE37148E · kind E · reissue
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| Filing date | May 29, 1996 |
| Grant date | Apr 24, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 29, 2016 |
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- Technology area (CPC —)General
Abstract
A guidewire for use in guiding a catheter has a tip construction that includes a core wire within a helical coil. The core wire has a distal tip segment that is tapered and is further impressed with a pair of opposed flattened surfaces extending along the taper, the surfaces lying at an angle to each other and defining a progressively flattened tip having increased width in a distal direction to define a duck-bill configuration. The tip construction provides improved column strength at the tip to resist guidewire prolapse while providing excellent torsional and flexibility characteristics.
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