Patent ID: 8540695

Claim:
A catheter comprising: a catheter body including a hollow coil in which a plurality of metal strands are wound or stranded, an inner resin layer arranged on an inner surface of the hollow coil, the inner resin layer defining a lumen, and an outer resin layer arranged on an outer surface of the hollow coil; a tip made of resin that is provided at a distal end of the catheter body, the tip having a tapered section with an outer diameter that continuously decreases from the distal end of the catheter body to a distal end of the tip, the tip having an inner bore communicating with the lumen of the inner resin layer, wherein the inner resin layer is made of at least two different layers and the tip is made of a material that is softer than a material of the at least two different layers; and a braid extending in an axial direction of the catheter body across a boundary between a proximal end of the tip and the distal end of the catheter body, the braid also extending into the tapered section of the tip and being positioned between the inner resin layer and the hollow coil in the catheter body, wherein the hollow coil does not extend across the boundary.