US 11,992,234 B2
Guidewire manipulator
Yehuda Algawi, Binyamina (IL); Assaf Govari, Haifa (IL); and Ilya Sitnitsky, Nahariya (IL)
Assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd., Yokneam (IL)
Filed by Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd., Yokneam (IL)
Filed on Jun. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/343,925.
Application 17/343,925 is a continuation of application No. 15/926,738, filed on Mar. 20, 2018, granted, now 11,039,846.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/489,957, filed on Apr. 25, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0378697 A1, Dec. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 25/09 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/24 (2006.01); A61M 25/01 (2006.01); A61M 29/02 (2006.01); A61M 25/10 (2013.01)
CPC A61B 17/24 (2013.01) [A61M 25/0113 (2013.01); A61M 25/09 (2013.01); A61M 25/09041 (2013.01); A61M 29/02 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00526 (2013.01); A61M 2025/09008 (2013.01); A61M 2025/09108 (2013.01); A61M 2025/09116 (2013.01); A61M 2025/09133 (2013.01); A61M 25/1006 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A guidewire, comprising:
(a) a plastic tube forming a lumen, the plastic tube being configured to be inserted into a nasal sinus and having a length;
(b) a braid incorporated into the plastic tube; and
(c) a metal wire located in the lumen along the length of the plastic tube,
the plastic tube including a first plastic tube cemented to a second plastic tube, the lumen being common to the first plastic tube and the second plastic tube, and the first and second plastic tube having different thicknesses and a same outside diameter along the length of the plastic tube.