Patent ID: 11918247
Assignee: C. R. BARD, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A catheter for actively scoring or slicing a lesion, comprising:
a catheter body having first and second lateral openings and a guidewire lumen;
a cutter connected to the catheter body, the cutter including a blade body comprising a first blade and a second blade, the cutter having a retracted configuration in which the cutter does not perform a slicing or scoring function and a deployed configuration for slicing or scoring the lesion using the first blade projecting from the first lateral opening and the second blade projecting from the second lateral opening; and
a push-pull wire connected to the cutter and adapted to move the cutter between the retracted configuration and the deployed configuration, the push-pull wire having a first segment within a first lumen of the catheter body and a second segment within a second lumen of the catheter body;
wherein the blade body is a single blade body;
wherein the blade body comprises a transverse axle; and
wherein the first segment and the second segment of the push-pull wire each comprise a receiver, and wherein the transverse axle comprises a pair of projections for engaging the respective receivers.