US 11,938,288 B2
Vascular closure devices and methods
Brian Hauck, Windsor, CA (US); Robert Carter, Petaluma, CA (US); Dion Thurow, Santa Rosa, CA (US); Joseph W. Humphrey, Santa Rosa, CA (US); Robert G. Whirley, Santa Rosa, CA (US); and Thomas Larzon, Lidingö (SE)
Assigned to Arterica Inc., Santa Rosa, CA (US)
Filed by Arterica Inc., Santa Rosa, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 18, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/951,886.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/937,675, filed on Nov. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0145421 A1, May 20, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/04 (2006.01); A61M 25/10 (2013.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 25/10185 (2013.11) [A61B 17/0467 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00367 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0061 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00623 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00663 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0409 (2013.01)] 33 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vascular closure assembly, comprising:
an actuator assembly including:
an elongate housing with an inner lumen extending along the elongate housing to the distal end of the elongate housing, a distal section, and a plurality of anchor deployer lumens, and
a plurality of anchor deployers, each anchor deployer being slidably disposed within a respective deployer lumen of the elongate housing and each anchor deployer including a distal end thereof which is configured to extend and spread from the distal section of the elongate housing and a deployment rod which includes an elongate resilient configuration with an axial length greater than a transverse dimension and a distal end thereof that extends from the distal section of the elongate housing upon distal axial deployment; and
an inner catheter assembly including:
an elongate shaft including a proximal end, a distal end, a distal section, an axial length that is sufficient for the distal section to extend distally beyond the distal end of the elongate housing when disposed in the inner lumen thereof, and an outer surface contour which is configured to be slidably disposed within the inner lumen of the elongate housing,
an inflatable balloon disposed on the distal section of the elongate shaft in an axial position that can extend distally from the distal end of the elongate housing when the elongate shaft is disposed within the inner lumen of the elongate housing, the inflatable balloon including an interior volume in communication with a balloon inflation lumen, the balloon inflation lumen extending along the elongate shaft from an inflation port which is disposed in fluid communication with the interior volume of the inflatable balloon to an inlet port which is disposed on the elongate shaft.