ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,798, issued on March 24, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).
"Crimping device and shaft manufacturing method" was invented by Takuo Kanou (Fujinomiya-city, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crimping device for crimping a cylindrical body to a shaft member for a catheter, includes: a first crimping member configured to perform first crimping to obtain a first crimped state; a positioning member configured to perform a positioning operation, the positioning operation including: a radial operation; and a retaining operation, the radial operation being to be performed to obtain a contact state where the cylindrical body has a rear...