US 11,918,759 B2
Medical braided tube assembly
Kotaro Tanaka, Tokyo (JP); Takanobu Watanabe, Tokyo (JP); Kimika Kudo, Tokyo (JP); and Takanori Komuro, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to PROTERIAL, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Hitachi Metals, Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 28, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/035,182.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-179828 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0093831 A1, Apr. 1, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 25/00 (2006.01); A61M 39/10 (2006.01); A61M 5/00 (2006.01); A61M 25/10 (2013.01)
CPC A61M 25/005 (2013.01) [A61M 39/10 (2013.01); A61M 5/007 (2013.01); A61M 25/104 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3331 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medical braided tube assembly comprising:
a braided tube comprising a hollow cylindrical inner resin layer, a braided wire including braided strands and being provided over a periphery of the inner resin layer, and an outer resin layer provided to cover the periphery of the inner resin layer and a periphery of the braided wire; and
a connector provided at an end portion of the braided tube,
wherein the connector includes a tube housing section for accommodating the end portion of the braided tube,
wherein the braided tube accommodated in the tube housing section is adhesively fixed by an adhesive,
wherein the adhesive is provided to seal an entire periphery of the braided wire at an end face of the braided tube,
wherein the inner resin layer is an innermost layer of the braided tube,
wherein the connector further comprises a flow path that is configured to come into direct contact with a working fluid when a working fluid is flowing through the braided tube, and
wherein the adhesive constitutes part of the flow path.