Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus
Medical devices made from polymer blends containing low melting temperature liquid crystal polymers
 A medical device, at least a portion of which is composed of a polymeric material in which the polymeric material is a melt blend product of at least two different thermoplastic polymers, one of the thermoplastic polymers being a thermoplastic liquid crystal polymer (LCP) having a melting point of less than 250.degree. C. The portion of the device made from the melt blend may be a catheter body segment or a balloon for a catheter. The LCP blends suitably also include a non-LCP base polymer having a melting point in the range of about 140.degree. C. to about 265.degree. C. 
Scimed Life Systems, Inc.
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Lixiao Jianhua
Wang Chen