Patent ID: 7951164
Filing Date: 2011-05-31
Classification: A61F,A61M,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A medical balloon, wherein the medical balloon has a first end, a second end and a body portion longitudinally between the first end and the second end, and a balloon wall, the balloon having a contracted condition and is expandable to an expanded condition, wherein, when the medical balloon is in its expanded state, the balloon wall being formed of a material and has an inner surface facing inward and an outer surface facing outward, the medical balloon in its contracted condition having a central portion and a plurality of structures formed in the body portion and extending from the central portion disposed thereabout, each structure comprising a base, wherein the base is a double layer of the balloon wall, a first wing wrapped continuously in a first direction circumferentially away from the base and about the central portion of the balloon to and terminating at a first terminating end and a second wing wrapped continuously in a second direction, opposite the first direction, circumferentially away from the base and about the central portion of the balloon to and terminating at a second terminating end, wherein each second wing of the structures is in an overlapping relationship with a first wing of an adjacent structure and wherein, when the medical balloon is in its expanded condition, the body portion of the medical balloon has a circular cross-section in the location of the plurality of structures.