Patent ID: 8328864

Claim:
An intraluminal prosthetic device comprising: a first hoop section having a first circumferential phase orientation along a longitudinal axis; a second hoop section having a second circumferential phase orientation along the longitudinal axis, wherein the first circumferential phase orientation is different than the second circumferential phase orientation; and a plurality of flex members being arranged in a spaced apart relationship about the circumference of the first and the second hoop sections, each flex member having a first and a second end, wherein the first end of each flex member is attached to the first hoop section at a first connection region, and the second end of each flex member is attached to the second hoop section at a second connection region, the first connection region and the second connection region associated with each flex member being circumferentially offset from axial alignment, each flex member further comprising two generally longitudinally extending curved segments, one on each extreme end of said flex member, connected by one generally circumferentially extending linear strut segment, wherein: (i) each longitudinally extending curved segment includes a first curved section having a first constant radius of curvature directly attached to an opposingly oriented second curved section having a second constant radius of curvature, (ii) the first curved section is directly attached to the first or the second hoop section and the second curved section is directly attached to the linear strut segment, and (iii) the linear strut segments on circumferentially adjacent flex members are configured to be in direct contact when the prosthetic device is in a crimped state.