Interference No. 103,270
and running back through the tube to the proximal end. Below
the drawings is the following:
when spring is compressed, by pulling on
wire, it opens fastening itself to the
Guide Catheter.
CR-66, the next notebook page, states:
II.
The concept is to use a balloon as an
anchoring device for the guide wire, to the
Guide Catheter. By inflating the balloon
the Guide wire is held in place within the
guide
catheter, therefor[e] allowing the
dilatation
catheter to be removed without an exchange
wire.
There are three drawings, the first showing the distal end of
a hollow guide wire with a distal spring and an inflatable
balloon on the wire, and the second and third showing the
proximal end of the wire with an inflation valve in the bore
of the wire and a luer adapter with an "inflation hypo" and a
spring. A note says that "Spring fastens luer adapter to end
of Hypo for inflation." Below is stated:
The inflation valve would seal off the
inner lumen of guide wire such that the
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