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Title:
WEIGHT REDUCTION STENT, STENT MANUFACTURING JIG, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2017/022956
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a medical stent and, more specifically, to a weight reduction stent, which is an expansion device in the gastric cavity to be physically selected in order to reduce the weight of a patient requiring treatment, such as a patient having extreme obesity, reduces side effects, facilitates insertion and removal operations, is operated so as to reduce weight by inducing a natural reduction in food intake by causing a feeling of fullness in accordance to the expansion of the stent after the procedure, comprises a shape memory alloy wire, forms a predetermined shape by crossing and weaving, and is operated by being contracted and expanded, wherein unit cells formed as a polygon are weaved to form an entirely spherical stent in order to resist external force, and a net line constituting the unit cells is formed to be continuous by twisting two strands of wires.

Inventors:
SHIN KYONG MIN (KR)
PARK SE IK (KR)
HONG YOUNG ILL (KR)
PARK SUNG WOOK (KR)
CHOI MYUNG GYU (KR)
LEE BO IN (KR)
Application Number:
PCT/KR2016/007290
Publication Date:
February 09, 2017
Filing Date:
July 06, 2016
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
TAEWOONG MEDICAL CO LTD (KR)
THE CATHOLIC UNIV OF KOREA INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOP FOUND (KR)
SHIN KYONG MIN (KR)
International Classes:
A61F2/86; A61F2/04; A61F2/82; A61F2/90; A61L27/50; A61L31/04
Foreign References:
US8864840B22014-10-21
KR101061206B12011-09-01
KR100664531B12007-01-04
US20090118811A12009-05-07
US20090093838A12009-04-09
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
SHIN, Yong Hyun et al. (KR)
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