Abstract:
An introducer with a longitudinal slit is disclosed. The slit may enable a practitioner to remove the introducer from an elongate instrument without removing the elongate instrument from a hub or catheter. A hub having a hub taper is also disclosed. The hub taper may be configured to retain the introducer within the hub in some embodiments.
Abstract:
Dilators and sheaths for use in minimally invasive vascular therapy are disclosed. In some embodiments, the dilators include a slot that accesses a guidewire lumen within the dilator. These slots facilitate rapid exchange of one dilator for another. In another embodiment, a dilator is sufficiently stiff to facilitate entry, but also designed to facilitate placement of the dilator along a tortuous path.
Abstract:
A filter, configured to be disposed within a body lumen, that includes one or more filtering zones. The filter may include one or more sets of legs, configured to interact with the body lumen wall in order to stabilize the position of the filter and to create a filtering structure. In some embodiments the filter may be integrally formed form a single tube of material.
Abstract:
The present invention is a carotid sheath that has a proximal portion that is stiffer than the distal portion of the sheath as a result of the proximal portion having a higher durometer of the outer plastic coating of the sheath's proximal portion with a lower durometer for the plastic coating on the more flexible distal portion of the sheath. Another means to increase the flexibility of the sheath's distal portion compared to a stiffer proximal portion is by having a slightly smaller outside diameter for the outer plastic coating of the distal portion of the sheath. A more flexible distal portion of the sheath allows easier access for angiography, angioplasty or stenting when the sheath is used to access the tortuous path encountered when entering the carotid arteries.
Abstract:
A retrieval device with multiple internal lumens and one or more balloons is disclosed. The balloons may be utilized to stabilize the retrieval device during therapy and to prevent migration of the device, or material within a body lumen, during therapy.
Abstract:
A stent or other prosthesis may be formed by coating a single continuous wire scaffold with a polymer coating. The polymer coating may consist of layers of electrospun polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). Electrospun PTFE of certain porosities may permit endothelial cell growth within the prosthesis. The stent may be applicable to stents designed for the central venous system, peripheral vascular stents, abdominal aortic aneurism stents, bronchial stents, esophageal stents, biliary stents, or any other stent.
Abstract:
The timing cycles in a circuit design are identified and cut, such that timing constraint paths in the circuit design are preserved. Timing cycles in the circuit design may be identified by traversing an adjacency list data structure, in which elements of the circuit design are represented as vertices interconnected by edges. Timing constraint paths may be distinguished from false timing paths using a greatest common path heuristic. Timing constraint paths may be marked as "constrained" to prevent these paths from being cut. With the cycles and timing constraint paths identified, cuts may be selected that cut the identified timing cycles, while preserving the timing constraint paths. The cycle cuts allow the circuit design to be correctly processed within a conventional CAD tool design flow.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for the production of high purity silicon including a silicon deposition reactor with a gas distribution plate for injecting gas into the silicon deposition reactor.
Abstract:
Radial artery compression devices are disclosed. Some embodiments comprise an inflatable chamber and a frame. Securement straps, including securement straps comprising a free end threaded through a portion of the frame are also disclosed. Systems and methods for securing and/or positioning a securement device with one hand are also disclosed.
Abstract:
A system, method, or apparatus for generating a blast plan that can receive blast data comprising geological properties of a blast site, blasthole parameters, and available explosive product. A pattern footage can be determined based on a relationship between the face height, the specific energy of the available explosive product, and the geological properties of the bench. The burden and spacing can be determined from the pattern footage.