Patent ID: 11925383
Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 18:
19. A medical device for removing an object that exists in a body lumen, the medical device comprising:
a sheath insertable into the body lumen;
a drive shaft having a distal portion and a proximal portion, the drive shaft configured to extend through the sheath;
a rotatable hollow rotating body located on the distal portion of the drive shaft, and wherein a distal surface of the rotating body has a severing portion, the severing portion includes a plurality of edge surfaces arranged to be twisted in a circumferential direction of the rotating body on the distal surface of the rotating body;
a twisted direction of the plurality of edge surfaces is the same as a rotation direction of rotatable hollow rotating body;
a guide wire lumen configured to receive a guide wire, the guide wire lumen being parallel to the sheath and arranged along an outer surface of the sheath; and
a connecting member disposed on an outer surface of the sheath, and wherein the connecting member is disposed between the sheath and the guide wire lumen.