Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080228109 | GUIDE WIRE - A guide wire includes a member with a core wire. The guide wire may have a marker-forming layer which partly encircles the outer surface of the member and differs in color from the member, and a coating layer which covers the marker-forming layer and the member at least in the region where the marker-forming layer is formed and has such transparency as to make the marker-forming layer visible. The marker-forming layer and the coating layer can be formed from mutually miscible resins, while the marker-forming layer functions as a visible marker. | 09-18-2008 |
20080242933 | ENDOSCOPIC TREATMENT TOOL AND SUTURING METHOD USING THE SAME - An endoscopic treatment tool according to the present invention is an endoscopic treatment tool which is inserted into hollow organs via the mouth, nose, anus, or other natural orifice of the patient and performs suturing treatment within the hollow organs or abdominal cavities, includes: a hollow organ lining support which is smaller than the smallest diameter of a passage from a natural orifice of the hollow organ, the hollow organ lining support being able to expand so as to have a diameter larger than the smallest diameter of the passage from the natural orifice of the hollow organ. | 10-02-2008 |
20080281230 | Guide Wire - A guide wire includes a wire body having a core wire and a resin coating layer covering an outer periphery of a distal section of the wire body, and an annular member provided on the proximal side of the resin coating layer. The outer diameter of the distal end of the annular member and the outer diameter of the proximal end of the resin coating layer are preferably equal, and a distal end face of the annular member is joined to a proximal end face of the resin coating layer. | 11-13-2008 |
20120022470 | MEDICAL ELONGATE MEMBER HOUSING TOOL AND MEDICAL ELONGATE MEMBER HOUSING TOOL ASSEMBLY - An elongate member housing tool assembly includes a distal end side tubular member disposed on the distal end side and a proximal end side tubular member disposed on the proximal end side, which accommodate an elongate member, and a liquid inlet port to which a liquid supplying tool for supplying liquid into the distal end side tubular member is removably connected and which is provided on the distal end side tubular member. The distal end side tubular member and the proximal end side tubular member are wound spirally, and the proximal end of the distal end side tubular member and the distal end of the proximal end side tubular member are disposed in a spaced relationship from each other. A distal portion of the guide wire is accommodated in the distal end side tubular member, except possibly the most distal portion of the elongate member. | 01-26-2012 |
20120078051 | GUIDE WIRE FOR ENDOSCOPE - A guide wire includes a wire having an elongated body section and a distal portion decreasing in outer diameter from the body section. The guide wire may have a resin coating portion coating the body section and the distal portion and having a smooth outer surface; and a visually discernible mark provided at the resin coating portion. The body section may have a flexible portion which constitutes a part of the body section and lower in flexural rigidity than other portions of the body section different from the part, and the visually discernible mark is provided at a position of the resin coating portion at which the flexible portion is coated with the resin coating portion | 03-29-2012 |
20120253114 | OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGICAL TREATMENT DEVICE AND METHOD - A sinusitis treatment device includes: a flexible first elongated body to be guided into an accessory; an imaging unit which is provided on the first elongated long body, for obtaining an image on the front side of a distal end of the first elongated body; a flexible second elongated body having a lumen in which the first elongated body is inserted; an expansive body which is provided on the second elongated body and which has an effective expansive section capable of radial expansive deformation within a natural ostium located between a nasal cavity and an accessory nasal cavity to push open a stenosed part of the natural ostium; and a positioning unit which is provided on the second elongated body, for positioning the effective expansive section of the second elongated long body moved along the first elongated body relative to the first elongated body. | 10-04-2012 |
20120253123 | OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGICAL TREATMENT DEVICE AND METHOD - An otorhinolaryngological treatment device includes: a flexible elongated body to be introduced into an accessory nasal cavity through a nasal cavity; an expansion body which is provided on the elongated body and has an effective expansive section capable of radial expansive deformation within a natural ostium between the nasal cavity and the accessory nasal cavity to thereby force open a stenosed part of the natural ostium; and imaging unit for obtaining an image on the front side of a distal end of the elongated body, which is provided integrally with the elongated body on the distal side of the elongated body relative to the expansion body. The treatment device enables easy positioning (aligning) of the expansion body inside the nasal cavity, without need for radioscopy. | 10-04-2012 |
20130172921 | METHOD FOR TREATMENT OF EMPHYSEMA - The present invention provides a method for treatment of emphysema, including: (a) a step of inserting and placing first through-hole forming means in emphysematous lung area, forming a first through-hole in the emphysematous lung area by puncture, and, after contact of the first through-hole forming means with pleura, detaching the pleura from the lung area to form a detachment space; (b) a step of inserting and placing second through-hole forming means in normal lung area, and forming a second through-hole in the lung area by puncture; and (c) a step of causing the first through-hole and the second through-hole to communicate with each other through the detachment space formed in the step (a). | 07-04-2013 |
20130217964 | EXPANSION CATHETER - Disclosed herein is an expansion catheter including: an expansion body which can be expanded; an elongate main body to a distal section of which the expansion body is attached; and an imaging section by which the expansion body is imaged from a proximal side thereof. | 08-22-2013 |