US 12,268,602 B2
Telescoping capsule assembly for transcatheter valve repair and methods
Ryan J. Bienvenu, Santa Rosa, CA (US); Grant A. Menon, Santa Rosa, CA (US); Fatemeh Fatemi Far, Santa Rosa, CA (US); and Sabrina Hua, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US)
Filed by Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US)
Filed on Mar. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/698,177.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/183,107, filed on May 3, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0346951 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. A61F 2/24 (2006.01); A61F 2/48 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/2436 (2013.01) [A61F 2/2418 (2013.01); A61F 2/484 (2021.08)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cardiac implant delivery device comprising:
a catheter assembly including a catheter having a distal end; and
a capsule assembly secured to the distal end, the capsule assembly configured to sheathe the cardiac implant, the capsule assembly including a distal capsule and a proximal capsule, the distal capsule positioned distally with respect to the proximal capsule;
wherein the capsule assembly includes a loaded arrangement, a partially deployed arrangement, and a deployed arrangement,
wherein in the loaded arrangement, a distal end of the proximal capsule is adjacent a proximal end of the distal capsule,
wherein in the partially deployed arrangement, the distal capsule and the proximal capsule are both translated distally as compared to the loaded arrangement, and
wherein in the deployed arrangement, the proximal capsule is translated distally with respect to the distal capsule as compared to the partially deployed arrangement.