Vaso-Occlusive Coil Composite Structure for Anchoring and Shape Retention
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vaso-occlusive devices face limitations in performance, including breaking performance, shape retention, and anchoring ability, particularly in coupling to delivery assemblies.
Innovation Solution
The development of a vaso-occlusive device formed from braided or woven structures using drawn filled tubes with specific metallic compositions and configurations, including a core and external layer made of different materials, such as platinum and Nitinol, to enhance radiopacity, shape retention, and breaking performance, with intra-device junctions for secure coupling to delivery assemblies.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If vaso-occlusive coils use complex three-dimensional secondary shapes and modified stiffness/flexibility, then aneurysm filling performance is improved, but breaking performance and anchoring ability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies composite materials by combining platinum (for radiopacity and strength) with Nitinol (for shape memory and flexibility) in a drawn-filled tube structure. The platinum core provides structural integrity and breaking performance, while the Nitinol outer layer provides shape retention and flexibility, resolving the contradiction between aneurysm filling performance and breaking performance.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes material parameters by controlling the ratio of core to external layer materials, their thicknesses, and mechanical properties. By adjusting these parameters, the device achieves optimal balance between stiffness for anchoring, flexibility for deployment, and shape retention for filling, while maintaining adequate breaking performance.
2Reliability
If vaso-occlusive coils use complex three-dimensional secondary shapes and modified stiffness/flexibility, then aneurysm filling performance is improved, but shape retention deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The composite structure with platinum core and Nitinol outer layer resolves the contradiction by assigning specific functions to each material. The Nitinol layer with its shape memory effect provides excellent shape retention, while the platinum core provides structural support, enabling both complex three-dimensional shapes for filling and stable shape retention.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by giving different regions of the coil different material compositions and mechanical properties. The draw-filled tube structure creates local variations in stiffness and flexibility along the coil length, allowing complex shaping in some regions while maintaining shape retention in others.
3Reliability
If vaso-occlusive coils use complex three-dimensional secondary shapes and modified stiffness/flexibility, then aneurysm filling performance is improved, but anchoring ability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The composite platinum-Nitinol structure resolves the anchoring contradiction by combining materials with complementary properties. The platinum core provides high strength and rigidity for anchoring, while the Nitinol layer provides flexibility for deployment and shape retention, enabling both excellent anchoring and effective filling.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent optimizes anchoring by carefully controlling material parameters including the thickness ratio of core to outer layer, the mechanical properties of each material, and the overall coil geometry. These parameter adjustments ensure adequate anchoring strength while maintaining filling performance.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution provides improved radiopacity, shape retention, and breaking performance, ensuring effective anchoring and deployment of the vaso-occlusive devices in vascular applications, particularly for treating aneurysms.
Implementation Method 1
Each of the core and external metallic materials has a respective radiopacity
Implementation Method 2
Each drawn filled tube includes a core made from a core metallic material, and an external layer made from an external metallic material different from the core metallic material
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AI summary
A vaso-occlusive treatment system (100), comprising a delivery assembly (104); and a vaso-occlusive device (102) detachably coupled to the delivery assembly (104) by a severable junction (114), the vaso-occlusive device (102) comprising a proximal coil (108) having an inner axial lumen and a proximal end portion (132) coupled to the severable junction (114), and a braid (106) having a proximal end portion coupled to a distal end portion (136) of the proximal coil (108) by a first intra-device junction (300-1), the braid comprising a plurality of elongate braid members, wherein at least one (122) of the braid members extends proximally from the braid through the axial lumen of proximal coil (108) and is secured to the proximal end portion (132) of the proximal coil (108), respectively, to thereby form proximal coil stretch-resisting member (122)..