公开(公告)号：US10071243B2

公开(公告)日：2018-09-11

申请号：US13955393

申请日：2013-07-31

Applicant: Medtronic, Inc.

Inventor： Jonathan L. Kuhn ,  Michael P Campbell ,  Vladimir Grubac ,  Kenneth D Rys ,  Richard W Swenson ,  Charles L Wilson

IPC: A61N1/05 ,  A61N1/375 ,  A61N1/372

CPC classification number: A61N1/0573 ,  A61N1/059 ,  A61N1/37205 ,  A61N1/37518 ,  A61N1/3756

Abstract: A tine portion of an implantable medical device includes a hook segment and a distal segment terminated by a tissue-piercing tip, wherein the distal segment extends from a distal end of the hook segment to the tip. The hook segment, which is elastically deformable from a pre-set curvature, for example, defined by a single radius, preferably tapers from a first width thereof, in proximity to a proximal end thereof, to a smaller, second width thereof, in proximity to the distal end thereof, wherein the tip has a width that is greater than the second width of the hook segment. Alternately, the tine portion may include a hook segment that is defined by two radii and a straight section extending therebetween.