Patent ID: 8821563
Filing Date: 2014-09-02
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A dilator tip for deploying and positioning an endovascular device at a treatment site in a body vessel, including: an elongate body including at least two substantially longitudinal channels in an outer surface of the body; at least two deployment struts, each deployment strut having a free end comprising a distal loop for releaseable attachment to a proximal edge of an endovascular device to be deployed, a constrained end restrained within one of the longitudinal channels, and a pivot portion between the free end and the constrained end; where, in an undeployed configuration of the dilator tip, the free ends reside within the longitudinal channels, and where, in a deployed configuration of the dilator tip, the free ends are pivotally extended away from the longitudinal channels by way of the pivot portions.