Patent ID: 9532871
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: A61F,A61M

Claim:
1. A device for delivering an implantable medical apparatus into a patient, the device comprising: a shaft having proximal and distal ends and a longitudinal axis, the distal end having a surface disposed at an oblique angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the shaft; a tip operatively connected to the distal end of the shaft, the tip having a proximal end, a distal end and a longitudinal axis, the proximal end of the tip having a surface disposed at an oblique angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the tip, the proximal end surface of the tip being in mating engagement with the distal end surface of the shaft, the tip having a rotation axis perpendicular to the distal end surface of the shaft and the proximal end surface of the tip so that the tip is rotatable from a first position in which the longitudinal axis of the tip is collinear with the longitudinal axis of the shaft to a second position in which the longitudinal axis of the tip is oriented at an oblique angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the shaft, the tip defining a compartment adapted to receive the medical apparatus between the proximal end of the tip and the distal end of the tip; and a sheath connected to the tip and movable with the tip between the first position and the second position, the sheath being movable distally away from the distal end of the shaft from a first condition in which the sheath encloses the compartment to a second condition in which the sheath exposes the compartment for deployment of the medical apparatus into the patient.