Patent ID: 7740637

Claim:
An apparatus for release and deployment of a therapeutic device within the vasculature of a patient, comprising: an elongated, flexible pusher member having an interior lumen; a first connector member mounted to said elongated, flexible pusher member; an elongated second connector member connected to a therapeutic device and detachably connected to the first connector member, said elongated second connector member thereby connecting the therapeutic device to the pusher member for placement of the therapeutic device within the vasculature, and said first connector member having a severable portion disposed within said elongated, flexible pusher member, the severable portion being capable of being broken by heating; a heat source disposed in the interior lumen of the pusher member adjacent to said severable portion of said first connector member for heating said severable portion of said first connector member to cause said severable portion of said first connector member to break and release the elongated second connector member for detaching and deploying the therapeutic device from the flexible pusher member when a desired placement of the therapeutic device within the vasculature is achieved.