Patent ID: 9161853
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A delivery system for a self-expanding implant to line a bodily lumen, which includes a sheath to hold the implant in a radially compressed configuration prior to deployment in the lumen, when the sheath is withdrawn along the axis of the lumen, the system further comprising: a removable assembly comprising a plurality of components surrounding the sheath until the delivery system is percutaneously inserted in a bodily lumen, wherein the plurality of components are parallel elongate members, and the plurality of components are spaced at regular intervals around the removable assembly circumference on a luminal surface of the removable assembly, wherein the elongate members are tubular; and spaced pressure relief zones disposed in a space between at least two parts of a component of the plurality of components and the sheath or between at least two components of the plurality of components and the sheath.