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Granted Patent B2
US 12,496,431 · App. 17/218,801 · Granted Dec 16, 2025

Medical device delivery member with flexible stretch resistant distal portion

Inventors: Juan Lorenzo (Davie, FL); Tyson Montidoro (Raynham, MA); Daniel Solaun (Miami, FL); David Blumenstyk (Miami, FL)
Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
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Patent No.
US 12,496,431
App. No.
17/218,801
Granted
Dec 16, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A delivery member is provided for delivering and deploying an intravascular medical device. The delivery member includes a flexible distal portion including a wound wire coil surrounded by a flexible sleeve and inhibited from extending lengthwise by a stretch resistant member positioned through a lumen of the coil. The delivery member can include hypotubes positioned on either side (distally and proximally) from the wound wire coil to which the stretch resistant member and the wound wire coil can be attached. The flexible sleeve can be fused to the stretch resistant member between windings of the wire coil.

Claims (28)

1 . A delivery member for delivering an implantable medical device to a target location of a body vessel, the delivery member comprising:

a distal hypotube comprising a distal end shaped to receive the implantable medical device;

a flexible tubular section affixed to a proximal end of the distal hypotube, the flexible tubular section comprising openings therethrough;

a proximal hypotube affixed to a proximal end of the flexible tubular section;

a flexible sleeve covering at least a majority of an outer surface of the flexible tubular section; and

a stretch resistant tube comprising a distal portion affixed to the distal hypotube within a lumen of the distal hypotube, an intermediate portion fused through the openings of the flexible tubular section to the flexible sleeve, and a proximal portion affixed to the proximal hypotube within a lumen of the proximal hypotube.

2 . The delivery member of claim 1 , further comprising:

an engagement system movable to engage and deploy the implantable medical device engaged at the distal end of the distal hypotube, the engagement system comprising:

a loop wire extended through an opening in the implantable medical device thereby engaging the engagement system to the implantable medical device and movable to retract from the opening in the implantable medical device to deploy the implantable medical device, and

a pull wire extended through the lumen of the proximal hypotube, extending through a lumen of the stretch resistant tube, extending through the lumen of the distal hypotube, engaged to the loop wire thereby engaging the engagement system to the implantable medical device, and movable to retract proximally to disengage the loop wire to deploy the implantable medical device.

3 . The delivery member of claim 2 ,

wherein the distal hypotube comprises a compressible portion movable from a compressed condition to an elongated condition, and

wherein the engagement system maintains the compressible portion in the compressed condition when engaged to the implantable medical device.

4 . The delivery member of claim 1 , wherein the flexible tubular section comprises:

a non-radiopaque proximal coil extending from the proximal end of the flexible tubular section;

a non-radiopaque distal coil extending from a distal end of the flexible tubular section; and

a radiopaque central coil extending between the non-radiopaque proximal coil and the non-radiopaque distal coil.

5 . The delivery member of claim 1 , where in the flexible tubular section comprises:

a wire wound to form the flexible tubular section and defining a portion of a lumen of the flexible tubular section, the wire comprising a diameter measuring from about 0.0008 inch to about 0.005 inch.

6 . The delivery member of claim 1 ,

wherein the flexible sleeve comprises a polymer, and

wherein the flexible sleeve comprises additives effective to increase a lubricity of the polymer.

7 . The delivery member of claim 1 , wherein the flexible sleeve is affixed to the proximal hypotube and the distal hypotube.

8 . The delivery member of claim 1 ,

wherein the delivery member comprises a contiguous hypotube comprising the distal hypotube, the flexible tubular section, and the proximal hypotube, and

wherein the flexible tubular section comprises a spiral cut.

9 . The delivery member of claim 1 , wherein the delivery member comprises a length measurable from the proximal end of the flexible tubular section to the distal end of the distal hypotube, and wherein the length measures about 40 cm.

10 . The delivery member of claim 1 , wherein the proximal hypotube comprises a spiral cut portion approximate a distal end of the proximal hypotube.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 31, 2021
From: LORENZO, JUAN; MONTIDORO, TYSON; SOLAUN, DANIEL; BLUMENSTYK, DAVID
To: DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS, INC.
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Continuity (2)
Continuation In Part 16502767 · Jul 3, 2019
Related Publication 20210213252A1 · Jul 15, 2021
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