Patent ID: 8486109
Filing Date: 2013-07-16
Classification: A61B,A61F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A device for introduction along a guide into a body, the device assuming within the body a predefined deflected configuration, the device comprising: an elongated element formed primarily from a plurality of sequentially flexibly interconnected segments, said elongated element being configured such that: (a) when the elongated element is confined by the guide to an insertion configuration, compressive forces are transferred from each segment to the next so that the elongated element can be pushed so as to advance along the guide; and (b) when the elongated element is not confined by the guide to said insertion configuration, each segment is deflectable relative to adjacent segments until at least one abutment surface of each of the segments comes into abutment with at least one corresponding abutment surface of each adjacent segment, thereby defining a fully flexed state of the elongated element, the fully flexed state corresponding to a predefined deflected configuration of the elongated element; and wherein a terminal segment of said plurality of segments is formed with a leading surface angled so as to tend to deflect the elongated element from said insertion configuration to said deflected configuration as the elongated element is advanced into the body.