Stryker Corporation
HUBS FOR MEDICAL DEVICES

Abstract:

A method of making a medical device includes holding a spacer tool by a slot of a mold, and accommodating a portion of a first tube by a lumen in the spacer tool, wherein a region of the first tube is inside the mold cavity and outside the spacer tool, and an end of the first tube is in engagement with an end of a first lumen-defining section of a first core pin. The spacer tool includes a first section located in the mold cavity when the spacer tool is held by the slot of the mold, the first section of the spacer tool being configured to define a cavity to be formed circumferentially around a part of the first tube inside a hub to be formed, wherein the part of the first tube is different from the region of the first tube.