Flexible catheter shaft and method of manufacture

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9999748
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14509187

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The present disclosure provides a strong, flexible catheter shaft for use in a catheter system. The flexible catheter shaft includes a nitinol tube having one or more sets of cuts therein in combination with one or more outer jacket layers. The flexible catheter shaft provides a shaft having sufficient stiffness and kink resistance to allow an operator to advance an electrode basket connected to the flexible catheter shaft through a guide catheter to a target ablation site without causing vessel trauma. The distal tip of the flexible catheter shaft is designed to have sufficient flexibility to reduce any risk of kicking out a guide catheter when tracking the electrode basket around turns in the vasculature of a patient.

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  • ST. JUDE MEDICAL, CARDIOLOGY DIVISION, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Ayer, Janson Lee Maple Grove, US 2 16
Buesseler, Ryan Kenneth Delano, US 13 82
Cajamarca, Tobias Plymouth, US 3 80
Strong, Jeffrey John Coon Rapids, US 3 84
Terwey, Russell D St. Michael, US 26 328
Weir, Bruce Robert Plymouth, US 1 3

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