Patents Assigned to Acandis GmbH & Co. KG
  • Patent number: 11478369
    Abstract: A medical device, having a body that is tubular at least in some sections. The body can be transferred from a compressed state into an expanded state and has a circumferential wall having at least one first lattice structure and one second lattice structure. The first lattice structure and the second lattice structure form separate layers of the circumferential wall, which are arranged coaxially one inside the other and connected to each other at least at points in such a way that the first lattice structure and the second lattice structure can be moved relative to each other at least in some sections. A system having such a device is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: ACANDIS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Giorgio Cattaneo, Otto Baidinger
  • Patent number: 10709588
    Abstract: A medical device, having a body that is tubular at least in some sections. The body can be transferred from a compressed state into an expanded state and has a circumferential wall having at least one first lattice structure and one second lattice structure. The first lattice structure and the second lattice structure form separate layers of the circumferential wall, which are arranged coaxially one inside the other and connected to each other at least at points in such a way that the first lattice structure and the second lattice structure can be moved relative to each other at least in some sections. A system having such a device is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: ACANDIS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Giorgio Cattaneo, Otto Baidinger
  • Publication number: 20190388255
    Abstract: Medical device having compressible and expandable, circular cylindrical lattice structure, which includes circumferential segments having closed cells. The cells are bounded by four respective webs, which are coupled to each other and every two oppositely arranged webs to form a web pair. The webs of a first pair have a different shape and/or a web width at least in some sections than the webs of a second pair. The webs of the first pair can be deformed more greatly than the webs of the second pair. During the transition of the lattice structure from the expanded to the compressed state, each web of the first pair is coupled to a respective web of the second pair in such a way that two connection points oppositely arranged in the longitudinal direction (LR) of the lattice structures are moved away from each other in the circumferential direction (UR) of the lattice structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: ACANDIS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Giorgio CATTANEO
  • Patent number: 10058449
    Abstract: A medical system for endovascular temperature control of blood and for recanalization of a blood vessel, the medical system having a catheter, a radially compressible treatment device, in particular a recanalization device, which, in the compressed state, is arranged to be longitudinally movable in the catheter and, by being released from the catheter, is radially expandable for the recanalization of the blood vessel, and a temperature control element for controlling the temperature of blood, wherein the treatment device, in particular the recanalization device, can be positioned distally with respect to the temperature control element in such a way that, during use, blood which is temperature-controlled by the temperature control element flows to the recanalization site in the blood vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Acandis GmbH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Giorgio Cattaneo
  • Patent number: 9855157
    Abstract: The invention relates to a medical device for inserting into a hollow organ of the body. The device has a compressible and expandable lattice structure made of webs, which are integrally connected to each other by web connectors and which bound closed cells of the lattice structure, wherein the web connectors each have a connector axis extending between two cells which, in a longitudinal direction of the lattice structure, are adjacent to each other. During the transition of the lattice structure from the production state to a compressed state, the web connectors rotate in such a way that an angle between the connector axis and a longitudinal axis of the lattice structure changes, in particular increases, during the transition of the lattice structure from a completely expanded production state to a partially expanded intermediate state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: ACANDIS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Giorgio Cattaneo, David Klopp, Frank Nagl
  • Publication number: 20170128242
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stent having a tubular woven structure (3) formed from wire strands (1, 2) interwoven with one another, wherein at least one first wire strand (1) is formed by at least two individual wires (1.1, 1.2) which run adjacently and contact one another, wherein the first wire strand (1) winds helically in a first direction around an axis of rotation of the woven structure (3) and crosses at least one second wire strand (2), which comprises at least one individual wire (2.1) and winds helically in a second direction around the axis of rotation of the woven structure (3), and wherein at least one individual wire (1.1) of the first wire strand (1) comprises an X-ray visible core material which is encased by a sheath material having a lower X-ray visibility than the core material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: ACANDIS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Andreas DING
  • Publication number: 20160158039
    Abstract: The invention relates to a medical device for inserting into a hollow organ of the body. The device has a compressible and expandable lattice structure made of webs, which are integrally connected to each other by web connectors and which bound closed cells of the lattice structure, wherein the web connectors each have a connector axis extending between two cells which, in a longitudinal direction of the lattice structure, are adjacent to each other. During the transition of the lattice structure from the production state to a compressed state, the web connectors rotate in such a way that an angle between the connector axis and a longitudinal axis of the lattice structure changes, in particular increases, during the transition of the lattice structure from a completely expanded production state to a partially expanded intermediate state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: ACANDIS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Giorgio CATTANEO, David KLOPP, Frank NAGL
  • Publication number: 20160095744
    Abstract: The application relates to a medical catheter for hypothermic treatment, with a catheter tube (10), which has at least one through-channel (11) and at least two temperature control channels (12, 13), and with at least one heat exchange element (14), in particular an expandable balloon, which is arranged in a distal catheter portion (15) of the catheter tube (10) and is fluidically connected to the temperature control channels (12, 13) in such a way that a temperature control circuit is formed. The application is characterized in that the catheter tube (10) has a smaller external diameter in the distal catheter portion (16) than in a proximal catheter portion (15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Applicant: ACANDIS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Julia WOLFERTZ, Giorgio CATTANEO, Michael BÜCHERT
  • Patent number: 9233013
    Abstract: A stent having a tubular lattice structure includes lattice elements, webs (10), and cells (11) delimited by the lattice elements. The lattice structure is transferred into a compressed state having a relatively smaller cross-sectional diameter and into an expanded state having a relatively larger cross-sectional diameter. Flexible contact elements (12) are associated with the lattice elements. The contact elements are adapted for transferring radial forces onto a vessel wall (20) and extending on the outer circumference of the lattice structure substantially in the longitudinal direction of each associated lattice element. The contact elements (12) are wider in each case than the associated lattice elements, at least in sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Acandis GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Giorgio Cattaneo, Kirsi Schüssler
  • Patent number: 9220899
    Abstract: An electrode for medical applications for neuromodulation and/or nerve stimulation and/or neurological signal detection, which electrode can be compressed and expanded in order to insert same into a hollow organ of a body and is or can be coupled to a current supply. The electrode has a compressible and expandable lattice structure including lattice webs, which form cells, wherein the lattice structure is or can be coupled to the current supply and forms at least one electrically conductive region and at least one electrically insulated region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Acandis GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Giorgio Cattaneo, Alfred Stett, Alireza Gharabaghi
  • Patent number: 9192489
    Abstract: A method for producing a medical device with a lattice structure, connected at least in some areas to a cover. The lattice structure is arranged on a substrate via the side to be connected to the cover, the lattice structure has the side arranged on the substrate pressed at least partially into the substrate, the lattice structure is coated with a first layer of a sacrificial material. At least some of the interstices of the lattice structure are covered by the first layer, and the first layer with the lattice structure on the side to be connected to the cover forms a substantially closed surface, the substrate is removed, making the side of the lattice structure accessible for connection to the cover. A second layer for forming the cover is applied to the side of the lattice structure previously pressed into the substrate, and the sacrificial material is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: ACANDIS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Christiane Zamponi, Rodrigo Lima De Miranda
  • Patent number: 9138334
    Abstract: A medical device with a radially compressible and expandable lattice structure (10) contains at least one closed cell (15) delimited in each case by four webs (11, 12, 13, 14) coupled to one another in one piece, of which at least one web (11, 12, 13, 14) is embodied as a stabilisation web (11, 13) with a first web width b1 and at least two further webs (11, 12, 13, 14) are embodied as connecting webs (12, 14) with a second web width b2, wherein the connecting webs (12, 14) are arranged inside the cell (15) so that they lie parallel opposite one another and are connected to one another by the stabilisation webs (11, 13) and wherein the ratio b1/b2 between the first web width b1 and the second web width b2 is at least 1.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: ACANDIS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Giorgio Cattaneo, Frank Nagl, Werner Mailaender
  • Publication number: 20150141898
    Abstract: A medical system for endovascular temperature control of blood and for recanalization of a blood vessel, the medical system having a catheter, a radially compressible treatment device, in particular a recanalization device, which, in the compressed state, is arranged to be longitudinally movable in the catheter and, by being released from the catheter, is radially expandable for the recanalization of the blood vessel, and a temperature control element for controlling the temperature of blood, wherein the treatment device, in particular the recanalization device, can be positioned distally with respect to the temperature control element in such a way that, during use, blood which is temperature-controlled by the temperature control element flows to the recanalization site in the blood vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: ACANDIS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Giorgio Cattaneo
  • Patent number: 8978533
    Abstract: The invention relates to a medical implant, particularly a stent, having a wall (11) braided out of multiple wires (10a, 10b) said wall extending along a longitudinal axis L and curving around the longitudinal axis L at least in sections, wherein in each case at least two wire ends (12) of the wires (10a, 10b, 10c, 10d) are connected to at least two first braid ends (13a, 13b) forming a first circumferential section (16a) of the wall (11) extending around the longitudinal axis L. The invention is characterised in that in each case at least two first braid ends (13a, 13b) are connected to one or more second braid ends (14a, 14b), wherein the second braid ends (14a, 14b) form a second circumferential section (16b) of the wall (11) extending around the longitudinal axis L and following the first circumferential section (16a) in sequence in the longitudinal direction or the second braid ends (14a, 14b) are arranged in the circumferential direction U of the wall (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Acandis GmbH & Co., KG.
    Inventors: Giorgio Cattaneo, Otto Baidinger
  • Patent number: 8758636
    Abstract: A method for producing a medical functional element having a self-supporting lattice structure which has interconnected webs. The method applies a first layer to the substrate layer, the first layer is structured by an etching process, the structured first layer is under-cut of a wet chemical etching process acting on the substrate layer, the substrate layer is removed in order to form the self-supporting lattice structure, a web constructional layer is applied to the first layer. The method is distinguished by the forming the first web attachment layer which has a smaller layer thickness than the web constructional layer and is intimately bonded to the web constructional layer in such a way that the web attachment layer, together with the web constructional layer, forms the webs of the self-supporting lattice structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: ACANDIS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Eckhard Quandt, Christiane Zamponi, Rodrigo Lima De Miranda
  • Publication number: 20140052162
    Abstract: Medical device having compressible and expandable, circular cylindrical lattice structure, which includes circumferential segments having closed cells. The cells are bounded by four respective webs, which are coupled to each other and every two oppositely arranged webs to form a web pair. The webs of a first pair have a different shape and/or a web width at least in some sections than the webs of a second pair. The webs of the first pair can be deformed more greatly than the webs of the second pair. During the transition of the lattice structure from the expanded to the compressed state, each web of the first pair is coupled to a respective web of the second pair in such a way that two connection points oppositely arranged in the longitudinal direction (LR) of the lattice structures are moved away from each other in the circumferential direction (UR) of the lattice structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: ACANDIS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Giorgio Cattaneo
  • Publication number: 20130237789
    Abstract: An electrode for measuring electrical activities of a living body and/or for outputting electrical signals into the living body, with an electrically insulated and flexible line, which is connected fixedly or releasably to a distally arranged and electrically conductive electrode tip. The electrode tip is designed for insertion into the body. The electrode tip includes at least one crystalline shape-memory material, and the electrode tip is flexible on account of the shape-memory material. The shape-memory material of the support structure is formed at least partially by physical vapour deposition, in such a way that precipitations in the shape-memory material have a maximum size of 500 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: ACANDIS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Giorgio Cattaneo
  • Publication number: 20130226272
    Abstract: An electrode for medical applications for neuromodulation and/or nerve stimulation and/or neurological signal detection, which electrode can be compressed and expanded in order to insert same into a hollow organ of a body and is or can be coupled to a current supply. The electrode has a compressible and expandable lattice structure including lattice webs, which form cells, wherein the lattice structure is or can be coupled to the current supply and forms at least one electrically conductive region and at least one electrically insulated region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: ACANDIS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Giorgio Cattaneo, Alfred Stett, A. Gharabaghi
  • Publication number: 20130218255
    Abstract: A medical device, having a body that is tubular at least in some sections. The body can be transferred from a compressed state into an expanded state and has a circumferential wall having at least one first lattice structure and one second lattice structure. The first lattice structure and the second lattice structure form separate layers of the circumferential wall, which are arranged coaxially one inside the other and connected to each other at least at points in such a way that the first lattice structure and the second lattice structure can be moved relative to each other at least in some sections. A system having such a device is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: ACANDIS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Giorgio Cattaneo, Otto Baidinger
  • Publication number: 20130218254
    Abstract: A medical device with a radially compressible and expandable lattice structure (10) contains at least one closed cell (15) delimited in each case by four webs (11, 12, 13, 14) coupled to one another in one piece, of which at least one web (11, 12, 13, 14) is embodied as a stabilisation web (11, 13) with a first web width b1 and at least two further webs (11, 12, 13, 14) are embodied as connecting webs (12, 14) with a second web width b2, wherein the connecting webs (12, 14) are arranged inside the cell (15) so that they lie parallel opposite one another and are connected to one another by the stabilisation webs (11, 13) and wherein the ratio b1/b2 between the first web width b1 and the second web width b2 is at least 1.2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: ACANDIS GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: ACANDIS GmbH & Co. KG