Patent ID: 8852203

Claim:
A multi-wire instrument, comprising: a distal functional section in which several individual wires form small wire baskets, the individual wires being guided together at a distal end and connected with one another, the wires being fixed directly to one another or to a distal terminating body while forming a respective predetermined breaking connection; a shaft section extending between the distal functional section and a proximal end region of the multi-wire instrument; wherein the individual wires extend in one piece from their distal end to the proximal end region of the multi-wire instrument, and the shaft section is formed by the individual wires combined there and held together; wherein the individual wires are mutually twisted in the entire shaft section to a basket-forming functional section, changing from the twisted distal end of the shaft section while radially expanding to the basket-forming functional section; and wherein the individual wires are twisted in a distal end region distally adjoining the basket-forming functional section and rest against one another along this twisting.