| US RE40,816 E1 | ||
| Biocompatible crosslinked coating and crosslinkable coating polymer composition for forming such a coating | ||
| Alistair Stewart Taylor, Surrey (United Kingdom); Peter William Stratford, Surrey (United Kingdom); Yiannakis Petrou Yianni, Hanks (United Kingdom); Matthew John Woodroffe, Berks (United Kingdom); and Lee Rowan, Warwickshire (United Kingdom) | ||
| Assigned to Biocompatibles UK Limited, Surrey (United Kingdom) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/946,604 PCT Filed Nov. 01, 1996, PCT No. PCT/GB96/02689 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Apr. 28, 1998, PCT Pub. No. WO97/16133, PCT Pub. Date May 09, 1997. |
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| Application 09/011523 is a division of application No. 10/180060, filed on Jun. 27, 2002. | ||
| Application 10/946604 is a reissue of application No. 09/011523, filed on Apr. 28, 1998, now 6,083,257, filed on Jul. 04, 2000. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 9522332.7 (GB), filed on Nov. 01, 1995. | ||
| Int. Cl. A61F 2/06 (2006.01); C08F 230/02 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 623—1.46 [623/1.11; 623/23.57; 623/23.7; 526/277; 526/287; 526/288; 526/319] | 21 Claims |
| 1. A radially self-expanding stent adapted for implantation in a body passage comprises first and second sets of mutually counter-rotating metallic filaments which are braided together and define a tubular stent body having two ends which is biased towards a first radially expanded configuration in which it is unconstrained by external applied forces and can be retained in a second radially compressed configuration, in which in the said first configuration the angle α between the filaments at a crossover point at the mid point of the stent is less than 90° and in which some or all of the filaments at the ends of the body are fixed together in pairs each consisting of counter-rotating filaments such that the angle at which the filaments are fixed is within the range α−10 to α+10, and in which the filaments are joined at a bead which has a diameter of at least 1.2 times the diameter of the filament. |