US 12,186,507 B2
Balloon for balloon catheter and method for manufacturing balloon catheter
Masahiro Kojima, Settsu (JP); Yoshinori Nakano, Settsu (JP); Yojiro Koga, Settsu (JP); Masato Tsueda, Settsu (JP); and Shintaro Osumi, Settsu (JP)
Assigned to KANEKA CORPORATION, Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 17/615,663
Filed by KANEKA CORPORATION, Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed May 12, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/018980
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 1, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/250611, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 17, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-108432 (JP), filed on Jun. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0218960 A1, Jul. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. A61M 25/10 (2013.01); B29C 49/48 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 25/1002 (2013.01) [A61M 25/104 (2013.01); A61M 2025/1031 (2013.01); A61M 2025/1086 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for manufacturing a balloon catheter, comprising:
a step of inserting a tubular parison made of a resin into an inner cavity of a mold having a first groove formed on an inner wall surface forming a part of the inner cavity;
a step of introducing a fluid into a lumen of the parison to inflate the parison such that a part of the parison enters the first groove; and
a step of removing the parison from the mold before the part of the parison reaches a bottom of the first groove, wherein the parison, to be inserted into the inner cavity of the mold, has a protruding part formed on an outer surface of the parison, the protruding part comprising a tip end portion including an end point in a radial direction of the protruding part, and a base portion that is located between the tip end portion and a balloon body, and
the parison is inflated in the cavity of the mold such that the base portion of the protruding part blocks an entrance of the first groove by coming into contact with an inner wall surface of the first groove, and the tip end portion is prevented from being contacting with the inner wall surface of the first groove.