Overaker, David,Burgermeister, Robert,Marrey, Ramesh,Dave, Vipul Bhupendra,Zhang, Qiang,Contiliano, Joseph H.
申请号：
AU2007249300
公开号：
AU2007249300B2
申请日:
2007.05.11
申请国别(地区):
AU
年份:
2013
代理人:
摘要：
A biocompatible material may be configured into any number of implantable medicaldevices including intraluminal stents. Polymeric materials may be utilizedto fabricate any of these devices, including stents. The stent has a pluralityof hoop components interconnected by a plurality of flexible connectors. Thehoop components are formed as a continuous series of substantially longitudinallyor axially oriented radial strut members and alternating substantially circumferentiallyoriented radial arc members. The geometry of the struts and arcs is such that whenthe stent is expanded, it has very high strains within a relatively small region.This strain localization results in what is often referred to as "hinging",where the hinge is the small region within which the strains are very high.
