In one embodiment, the sealing apparatus includes an expandable sleeve and an expandable a toroidal / ring shaped seal.

An optical fiber connector for stable connection of an optical fiber with a tensile cladding.

An expandable sheath accommodates a medical device that is being removed from a body with a larger diameter than the sheath.

The optical fiber has the form of an optical fiber cord (12) with a tensile cladding.

In one embodiment, an expandable sheath (12) covers the catheter balloon (14), and the expandable sheath is coated with the therapeutic agent.

In one possible embodiment, the probe has a distensible sheath having recording electrodes located on its outside surface.

The expandable container sleeve may be introduced into the body organ or passage in a folded state for reducing its cross-sectional area.

The optical fiber (120) and the tensile cladding (123) are fixed to the ferrule (14), and the ferrule is fastened to the housing (16).

The apparatus comprises ultraviolet light sources (5, 7) accommodated within an expandable sheath (27) which extends between two end caps (1, 3).

A large-diameter expandable sheath for use in introducing a catheter or other medical instrument into a vessel in the body of a patient.

A stretchable sheath (50) is integral to and frely extends away from the nipple proximal end (41) in an unfolded configuration of the device (10).

The expandable sheath comprises an elongate sheath tube formed of a flexible material which has proximal and distal extremities and a passage extending therethrough of a maximum predetermined diameter.

The invention includes a vessel cannulation device, an expandable sheath, an occlusion catheter, and a localizer each of which may be provided separately or used as part of a system.

The punch pin may include an expanding sleeve surround the pin that forms a larger diameter during the cutting stroke and springs back to a smaller diameter during a pull out stroke.

The sheath is expandable from a first diameter to an enlarged second diameter.