Patent ID: 6261260
Filing Date: 2001-07-17
Classification: A61L,A61M,Y10T

Abstract:
A cylindrical balloon for medical tubes susceptible to bending operations, comprising a first low stretchable section formed by a cross-linking treatment and arranged only on a portion less than a half of a circumferential area on the cylindrical balloon, the first low stretchable section being partialy extended along the axial direction of the cylindrical balloon, and a second low stretchable section formed by a cross-linking treatment and arranged only on a portion less than a half of the circumferential area on the cylindrical balloon, the second low stretchable section being partially extended along the axial direction of the cylindrical balloon, and the first and second sections being circumferentially arranged in opposite directions on the balloon and being arranged so that they do not overlap each other in the axial direction of the balloon.