Patent ID: 9517332
Filing Date: 2016-12-13
CPC Classification: A61M,A61N,H01R

Claim Text:
1. An anchor for an implantable medical lead, comprising: an elastic body defining a passageway; and a deflectable rigid body entirely within the passageway of the elastic body, the rigid body defining at least a portion of a lead passageway extending from a first end of the rigid body to a second end of the rigid body with the second end being a most distal end of the rigid body, the first end and the second end defining radial surfaces in a plane perpendicular from an axial dimension of the passageway with the first end having a shoulder that creates a larger diameter than the second end, the elastic body engaging the radial surface of at least the second end, the rigid body having an inner surface facing radially inward toward the lead passageway and extending from the first end to the second end of the rigid body, the entire inner surface being exposed to the lead passageway from the first end to the second end, the rigid body having a longitudinal free edge extending from the first end to the second end over the entire length of the rigid body, the longitudinal free edge being an edge of a surface at an outermost radial position of the rigid body, the longitudinal free edge having a first portion at the outermost radial position that is parallel to an axial dimension of the passageway and having a second portion extending axially from the first portion to the first end of the rigid body at the outermost radial position and to a different circumferential position to form an angle greater than zero and less than 90 degrees in a circumferential direction relative to the axial dimension of the passageway and having a third portion extending axially from the first portion to the second end of the rigid body at the outermost radial position and to a different circumferential position to form an angle greater than zero and less than 90 degrees in a circumferential direction relative to the axial dimension of the passageway.