Patent ID: 8968214
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
1. A combination of a guide wire, a guiding member and a protector, the guiding member comprising: a tube body possessing a distal end portion, the guide wire passing through the tube body and including a distally exposed portion extending distally beyond the distal end of the tube body, the protector comprising: a first body and a second body connected to each other, the first body and the second body being in a closed state with an inside of the first body facing an inside of the second body; the first body including a first guide wire sandwiching and holding portion, and the second body including a second guide wire sandwiching and holding portion; at least a part of the distally exposed portion of the guide wire being in contact with, and being sandwiched and held by, the first guide wire sandwiching and holding portion and the second guide wire sandwiching and holding portion; the first body including a first tube body sandwiching and holding portion and the second body including a second tube body sandwiching and holding portion, the distal end portion of the tube body being in contact with, and being sandwiched and held by, the first tube body sandwiching and holding portion and the second tube body sandwiching and holding portion; whereby a distal-most end of the guide wire is positioned within the protector; the protector in the closed state being openable to an open state in which the first and second bodies are relatively moved away from each other so that the part of the distally exposed portion of the guide wire is no longer sandwiched and held by the first guide wire sandwiching and holding portion and the second guide wire sandwiching and holding portion, and so that the distal end portion of the tube body is no longer sandwiched and held by the first tube body sandwiching and holding portion and the second tube body sandwiching and holding portion; wherein said first body includes a first engagement portion comprising a rib portion and said second body includes a second engagement portion comprising a concave portion, said first engagement portion frictionally engaging the second engagement portion in the closed state; and wherein said first engagement portion substantially surrounds the first guide wire sandwiching and holding portion and said second engagement portion substantially surrounds the second guide wire sandwiching and holding portion such that, in the closed state, a distal-most end of the guide wire is completely covered.