Patent ID: 7311726

Claim:
A self-expanding stent device comprising: a small diameter, skeletal, tubular member having a thin wall and having a proximal end and a distal end; said wall of said tubular member comprising a plurality of cells which are formed by a plurality of interconnected, generally undulating members and a plurality of rows of single-strand, unbranched struts; said undulating members extending generally in the same direction as the longitudinal axis of said tubular member, said undulating members being generally parallel to each other, forming a plurality of parallel rows; each undulating member having a positive peak and a negative peak; each strut having a proximal end and a distal end; said undulating members and said struts within a row being interconnected and having a repeating pattern in which the ends of said strut are respectively attached to the positive and negative peaks of adjacent undulating members, with adjacent struts extending in the same direction in the same row, and with struts of some rows extending transverse to strands of other rows.