Method of making a catheter balloon using a heated mandrel
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Apr 1, 2004
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Sep 30, 2002
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Sep 30, 2002
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A method of making a catheter balloon or other tubular medical device or component, in which polymeric material is positioned on a mandrel, and the mandrel is heated by induction or conduction to heat the polymeric material. In one embodiment, the polymeric material is a tube heated on the mandrel to stabilize the polymeric tube. In another embodiment, a sheet of polymeric material is wrapped on the mandrel and heated thereon to fuse sections of the wrapped sheet together, to form a polymeric tube. After heating on the mandrel in accordance with the invention, the polymeric tube may be further processed before or after being removed from the mandrel, to complete the formation of the tubular medical device or medical device tubular component.
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