curved portion w 21 enables the peak portion inverted u 39 to be collapsed closer to the double curved portion w 41 without hitting the double curved portion w 41 when the stent 40 is crimped onto the delivery catheter as a result there should be no metal to metal contact when the stent is crimped and the stent 40 should be crimped on to an even smaller profile which again helps in reducing the over profile of the stent and delivery catheter and in reaching tight distal vessels while this sweep cut 49 is shown only in conjunction with the embodiment shown in fig1 and 11 this sweep cut could be created on any of the other embodiments disclosed herein to help and reduce the overall diameter of the stents when they are being crimped on to the stent delivery catheters it should be appreciated that the present design can be made with a number of peaks and valleys ranging from 4 to 16 the number of peaks and valleys will depend upon the particular physical characteristics desired along with the particular application to which the stent will be used in many of the drawing figures the present invention stent is depicted flat in a plan view for ease of illustration all of the embodiments depicted herein are cylindrically shaped stents that are generally formed from tubing by laser cutting as described below one important feature of all of the embodiments of the present invention is the capability of the stents to expand from a low profile diameter to a larger diameter while still maintaining structural integrity in the expanded state and remaining highly flexible stents of the.