Patent ID: 9254346
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: A61B,A61F,A61L,A61M

Claim Text:
1. A vascular closure device comprising: a hollow, perforated tube; sealing material configured to flow out of the perforated tube and into a tissue tract to close a hole in a blood vessel; a vessel locating member insertable through the perforated tube and the hole, the vessel locating member being axially movable relative to the perforated tube and the hole, the vessel locating member being expandable within the vessel to temporarily seal the hole internally, the vessel locating member comprising a tube having a plurality of slits extending along a length thereof to define a plurality of deformable arms; wherein the vascular closure device is configured to be inserted into the tissue tract; wherein the vascular closure device comprises a plurality of holes so that the sealing material flows out of the vascular closure device into the tissue tract in a direction that is not parallel to the tissue tract, wherein the plurality of holes increase in size moving distally along a length of the vascular closure device to provide dispensing of greater amounts of the sealing material adjacent to the hole in the blood vessel.