Patent ID: 8512401

Claim:
A delivery device for percutaneously deploying a stented prosthetic heart valve, the device comprising: an inner shaft assembly including an intermediate portion providing a coupling structure configured to selectively engage the stented prosthetic heart valve; a delivery sheath capsule slidably disposed over the inner shaft assembly and configured to compressively contain the stented prosthetic heart valve; and a recapture sheath slidably disposed over the inner shaft, the recapture sheath including a funnel segment extending distally from a shaft, the funnel segment including: a plurality of circumferentially spaced runners each attached at a first end to the shaft and terminating at a distal tip opposite the shaft, a polymer overlay surrounding the runners, the overlay being bonded to the shaft and wherein the overlay is free of bonding between the overlay and at least the distal tips, wherein the funnel segment is transitionable from a normal condition to an expanded condition in which the funnel segment has a funnel shape with a distally increasing diameter, the funnel segment being self-transitionable from the expanded condition toward the normal condition; wherein the device is configured to provide a delivery state in which the capsule compressively retains the stented prosthetic heart valve over the inner shaft assembly and the funnel segment is longitudinally displaced from the stented prosthetic heart valve.