US 12,144,946 B1
Apparatus for forming balloon layer and related methods
Clint Solomon, Gilbert, AZ (US); Adriana Alvarado-Salazar, Gilbert, AZ (US); and Melissa Boyle, Phoenix, AZ (US)
Assigned to Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc., Tempe, AZ (US)
Filed by Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc., Tempe, AZ (US)
Filed on Mar. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/197,577.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/987,664, filed on Mar. 10, 2020.
Int. Cl. A61M 25/10 (2013.01); A61C 8/00 (2006.01); B05D 3/10 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 25/1029 (2013.01) [A61M 2025/1075 (2013.01); A61M 2207/00 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for forming a balloon layer on an expanded base balloon, comprising:
a mandrel supporting the expanded base balloon;
a first gripper for gripping the balloon layer;
a first actuator for stretching the balloon layer over the expanded base balloon;
a first holder overlying the expanded base balloon for holding a first portion of the balloon layer over the expanded base balloon; and
wherein the first actuator is configured to move the first gripper in a first direction to stretch the balloon layer over the expanded base balloon.