Vascular treatment and methods include a plurality of self-expanding bulbs and a hypotube including interspersed patterns of longitudinally spaced rows of kerfs. Joints between woven structures and hypotubes include solder. Woven structures include patterns of radiopaque filaments measurable under x-ray. Structures are heat treated to include at least shapes at different temperatures. A catheter includes a hypotube including interspersed patterns of longitudinally spaced rows of kerfs. Heat treating systems include a detachable flange. Laser cutting systems include a fluid flow system.

An elongated enclosed pathway containing an outer structure being a narrow woven cylinder and an inner structure being an inflatable tube located within the narrow woven cylinder. The narrow woven cylinder has a knitted catch area running along the length of the cylinder. The weft yarns have a repeating stitch pattern comprising a knit stitch with a catch yarn, stitching with warp yarns in a counterclockwise direction around the circumference, a knit stitch with a catch yarn, and stitching with warp yarns in a clockwise direction around the circumference. The inflatable tube alone has an air permeability of less than about 1 cfm, the narrow woven cylinder alone has an air permeability of greater than about 100 cfm, and the narrow woven cylinder together with the inflatable tube located inside the narrow woven cylinder has an air permeability of less than about 1 cfm.

A process of forming an elongated enclosed pathway containing the steps of forming an inner structure containing at least one inflatable tube and forming an outer structure comprising a narrow woven cylinder. The narrow woven cylinder contains a plurality of warp yarns, a plurality of weft yarns, and at least one catch yarn. The weft yarns have a repeating stitch pattern containing a knit stitch with a catch yarn, stitching with the warp yarns in a counterclockwise direction around the circumference, a knit stitch with a catch yarn, and stitching with the warp yarns in a clockwise direction around the circumference. The forming of the narrow woven cylinder is concurrent with inserting the at least one inflatable tube into the narrow woven cylinder and wherein the narrow woven cylinder is woven around the at least one inflatable tube.

An elastic coreless rope belt is a tubular braided rope of no core with stretch elasticity. Wherein the center part of the elastic rope belt along its length keep the same hollow shape, and at the periphery of the rope, it is provided with protruded knot parts of plural middle segment. At the plural middle segment, the diameter of the protruded knot can be changed with the changing of the axial tension. Once the axial tension is relived, the diameter and the shape will return to the origin. Thereby, it is convenient to make position limited buckling and loosening to the object hole.

The upper body garments disclosed herein include shoulder straps formed of a woven tubular material flattened into a double-ply fabric. The woven tubular shoulder straps have advantageously high recovery. The upper body garments also include a torso-encircling main body portion with a breast supporting region coupled to a body strap. The body strap is formed of a circular knit, tubular material flattened into double-ply fabric. The woven tubular shoulder straps are coupled to the circular knit, tubular body strap. In some embodiments, the weft yarn of the woven tubular shoulder straps can have different material properties than the warp yarn of the woven tubular shoulder straps. Methods of making the upper body garments are also disclosed herein.

A protective textile sleeve and method of construction thereof are provided. The sleeve has a tubular wall of braided yarns extending lengthwise along a central longitudinal axis between opposite ends. At least some of the braided yarns including heat-set yarns, and the wall has a plurality of annular first regions forming generally convex ridges and a plurality of annular second regions forming generally concave valleys. The first regions alternate with the second regions along the central longitudinal axis. The first regions include a plurality of twisted yarns forming a plurality of closed loops, wherein at least some of the braided yarns pass through at least some of the closed loops within the first regions to enhance the radial stiffness and resistance of the wall to kinking.

A compression article has an elastic base structure with an insert which is knitted double-ply and applies at least substantially a same compression pressure on a body of a wearer of an article as a base structure.

An orthotic compression brace includes a tubular sleeve namely knit from elastic yarns, covering at least the arm and the hand, up to the insertion of phalanges on the metacarpal bones of the hand, and a protrusion aimed to, at least partially, cover the thumb over its entire circumference. The tubular sleeve and the thumb are knit into one piece and the thumb is knit at least in part as from the thermobonding at a T1 temperature the sleeve eventually containing thermobonding yarns at a T2 temperature strictly greater than T1.

An elastic coreless rope belt is a tubular braided rope of no core with stretch elasticity. Wherein the center part of the elastic rope belt along its length keep the same hollow shape, and at the periphery of the rope, it is provided with protruded knot parts of plural middle segment. At the plural middle segment, the diameter of the protruded knot can be changed with the changing of the axial tension. Once the axial tension is relived, the diameter and the shape will return to the origin. Thereby, it is convenient to make position limited buckling and loosening to the object hole.

In an artificial blood vessel of the present invention, the artificial blood vessel has a warp yarn 1 extending along the axial direction and a weft yarn 2 extending along the circumferential direction of the artificial blood vessel VE, and it has a structure in which the warp yarn 1 extends in a wavy shape when the artificial blood vessel VE is viewed in the radial direction such that positions of the warp yarn 1 at top parts Mt1, Mt2 of a pair of mountain parts M adjacent in the axial direction match in the circumferential direction and a position of the warp yarn 1 at a bottom part Vb of a valley part V between the pair of mountain parts M is offset in the circumferential direction relative to positions of the warp yarn 1 at the top parts Mt1, Mt2 of the pair of mountain parts M.