Patent ID: 7141062

Claim:
A stent consisting of a plurality of essentially triangular cells, each triangular cell comprising: a first loop containing section that includes a plurality of loops and legs, the first loop containing section arranged generally in the circumferential direction, the loops in said first loop containing section occurring at a first frequency; a second loop containing section that includes a plurality of loops and legs, the second loop containing section arranged generally in the circumferential direction, the loops in said second loop containing section occurring at a second frequency; and a third loop containing section that includes a plurality of loops and legs, the loops in said third loop containing section also occurring at said second frequency that is higher than said first frequency, said third loop containing section joined to said first and second loop containing sections; wherein the loop containing sections include legs that are oriented along the longitudinal axis, and at least one of said legs in any one of the loop containing sections is shorter than at least one other leg in the same loop containing section within the triangular cell; and wherein the first loop containing section has wider legs than the second and third loop containing sections and the first loop containing sections are 180 degrees out of phase with each other.