With our continuous spooling process ensuring exceptional consistency with tighter tolerance, we can design, develop, and manufacture engineered shafts for a complex catheter. The shaft is designed to balance flexibility, pushability, kink resistance, and more, with our capability in a wide range of materials, including PTFE, Pebax®, PA12, stainless steel, etc.
Construction
Braided shat consists of three elements, PTFE liner, Braid reinforcement, and the outer jacket. These elements are designed and combined to be a shaft to realize required specifications such as dimensions, flexibility, and other mechanical properties for your catheter manufacturing.
Specifications
- Wall thickness: Min. 0.003” (0.08mm)
- Inner diameter: 0.012” - 0.11“ (0.3 – 2.8mm)
- Outer diameter: 0.018” - 0.14“ (0.46 – 3.5mm)
- Typical application: Microcatheter, Delivery catheter
- Medical field: Neuro, Peripheral, Interventional Oncology
- Supplied: Continuous-spooled or cut length, details below
PTFE Liner
- Supplied on a spool with silver-plated copper-core mandrel
- Tightly controlled wall tolerance: ±0.00008” (±2μm)
- Pinhole check on the entire length (Marking at the pinhole .)
- 内径： 0.3mm - 2.8mm
- Inside diameter: 0.01” – 0.11” (0.3mm – 2.8mm)
- Optional etched or thermoplastic tie layer for adhesion
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Braiding
Outer Extrusion Tube
- ID: 0.01"-0.11" (0.3-2.8mm)
- OD: 0.013"-0.14" (0.33-3.5mm)
- Length: max. 110" (2800mm)
- Material
Nylon: Pebax®. Vestamid®, Grilamid®, Rilsamid®
Poly-Urethane: Pellethane®, Tecothane®, TECOFLEX®, Carbothane®, Isoplast®
ETFE-C-88AXB®, PFA-P-62XP®, EFEP-RP5000®, PVDF-kyner®. PEEK-381G®
LLDPE, HDPE, LDPE, and others
Optional Radiopaque
This tubing may be used where tip, marker, and distal tube. It shows excellent radiographic visibility comparable to PtIr.
Optional variable Durometer Outer Tubing
With variable flexibility along their length, this tubing may be used where a proximal push and rotation along with a delicately soft tip is desirable to access the treatment area. For the benefit of seamless flexibility and streamlining process, used to replace manually connecting joint tubing.
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