Patent ID: 11938288
Assignee: AMERIFAB, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 26:
27. The vascular closure assembly of claim 26 wherein the filament lock mechanism comprises:
a filament tube which has a distal section which is slidably disposed in a close fitting bore at a distal section of the elongate housing, which has a distal end which extends distally beyond a distal shoulder surface of the close fitting bore, which is slidably disposed relative to the elongate housing, which has an inner lumen disposed about the filament of each of the respective plurality of anchor deployers, and which has a proximal section,
the filament lock which has an inner lumen which is disposed about the distal end of the filament tube in an axial position that is distal of the distal shoulder surface of the close fitting bore and which is self-contracting from an expanded state to a relaxed state and configured to clamp onto the filaments disposed in the inner lumen of the filament tube once the outward radial support producing the expanded state of the filament tube is removed, and
a filament tube actuator which is operatively coupled to the proximal section of the filament tube and which is configured to axially retract the filament tube relative to the distal shoulder surface upon activation so as to push the filament lock off of the distal end of the filament tube and allow the filament lock to clamp onto the filaments disposed in the inner lumen of the filament tube.