US 11,857,742 B2
Balloon catheter
Zhonghua Li, Tiajin (CN); Tianzhu Li, Tianjin (CN); and Xueying Wang, Tianjin (CN)
Assigned to SINO Medical Sciences Technology Inc., Tianjin (CN)
Filed by SINO Medical Sciences Technology Inc., Tianjin (CN)
Filed on Aug. 26, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/002,920.
Claims priority of application No. 201910800643.7 (CN), filed on Aug. 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0060312 A1, Mar. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 25/10 (2013.01); A61M 25/01 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 25/10 (2013.01) [A61M 2025/0183 (2013.01); A61M 2025/1004 (2013.01); A61M 2025/1075 (2013.01); A61M 2025/1079 (2013.01); A61M 2025/1093 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A balloon catheter, comprising a rapid exchange structure having a balloon catheter body and a hub, wherein the balloon catheter body has a push member, a transition member, a balloon loading member, a balloon, an imaging mark and a tip head, the balloon loading member comprises an outer tube and an inner tube, a distal end of the hub is connected with a proximal end of the push member, a proximal end of the transition member extends from a distal end of the push member, a distal end of the transition member is nested inside a proximal end of the outer tube of the balloon loading member, the balloon loading member loads the balloon, the tip head is provided on a distal end of the balloon, the imaging mark is provided on the balloon loading member, characterized in that the balloon has a wall thickness of 10-14 microns, the balloon has a nominal dilation pressure of 3-4 atm, and the balloon catheter has a rated burst pressure of 10-12 atm, and the balloon can deflect to an angle of 45 degrees in upright state, wherein the balloon is manufactured from an initial tube having an outer diameter of 0.5 mm-1.4 mm, and a wall thickness of 0.20 mm-0.60 mm, and a concentricity of 80%-100%; the manufacture of the balloon involving heating the initial tube to reach a glass transition temperature, inflating the initial tube and stretching the initial tube to shape in a mold; wherein, in the manufacture of the balloon, the initial tube bears a stretching rate of 150%-400% and an inflation ratio of 2.5-4.0.