Patent ID: 7470251

Claim:
A gastro-occlusive device, comprising: a balloon disposable in a stomach cavity of a patient, and inflatable therein to occlude at least 50% of the volume of the stomach cavity, a gas flow tube coupled at a distal end thereof with the balloon and extending through a stomach wall to a proximal end that is at or in interior proximity to a dermal wall of the patient's body or extends exteriorly out of the dermal wall of the patient's body; means for selectively inflating the balloon, coupled to the gas flow tube at the proximal end thereof and arranged to flow inflation gas to the balloon in the patient's stomach cavity, for said inflation therein to occlude at least 50% of the volume of the stomach cavity; first and second stomach wall positional anchoring members for the gas tube, the first and second positional anchoring members being adapted for placement along inner and outer surfaces, respectively, of a stomach wall of the patient; and first and second dermal wall positional anchoring members for the gas tube, the first and second dermal wall positional anchoring members being adapted for placement along outer and inner surfaces, respectively, of the dermal wall; wherein spacing is provided between said second stomach wall positional anchoring member and said second dermal wall positional anchoring member with a section of the gas tube extending therebetween to allow occurrence of normal movement of the stomach wall and normal movement of the dermal wall relative to one another adjacent to the stomach wall positional anchoring members and dermal wall positional anchoring members.