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One of the major challenges facing stent manufacturers is the difficulty of applying the design to the stent itself. This is particularly challenging due to the delicacy of the stent and its three dimensional tubular shape.
Medinol's unique multi-dimensional technology addresses this challenge in an ingenuously simple way – the design is applied onto a flat panel which is then folded and fused to create the stent's cylindrical shape.
This multi-dimensional approach carries various substantial benefits:
- our pattern-formation phase enjoys the simplicity and accuracy of a two-dimensional processes
- the two-dimensional process allows us to use different strut-formation technologies,i.e. photo-etching and water jet laser cutting, and match each technology with the optimal stent material
- the pattern formation phase is a batch process applied uniformly to a flat panel containing a large number of stents, thus allowing a statistical process control with a drastic improvement in quality.
- we are able to perform an automated inspection on both sides of the stent – thus achieving much higher quality at a more economical cost.
- Our two-dimensional quality control phase is performed very early in the manufacturing process, allowing us to inspect both the inner and outer side of the stent, and be very conservative with the stents we accept as good product.
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