- Patent Title: Pressure test port contained within a body of surgical instrument
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Application No.: US16317698Application Date: 2017-05-08
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Publication No.: US11490786B2Publication Date: 2022-11-08
- Inventor: William Jason Culman , Jaime G. Blackstad , Peter M. Herzlinger , Willard Curtis Lomax
- Applicant: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
- Current Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Meunier Carlin & Curfman LLC
- International Application: PCT/US2017/031592 WO 20170508
- International Announcement: WO2018/013202 WO 20180118
- Main IPC: A61B1/00
- IPC: A61B1/00 ; A61B90/00 ; A61B1/04 ; A61B1/06

Abstract:
A surgical apparatus includes a housing, a test port retainer, a pressure test chamber, and an image capture assembly. The housing includes a pressure test port. The test port retainer includes a test port retainer housing, a probe seal, and a liquid exclusion barrier. In one aspect, the test port retainer also includes a hydrophobic membrane mounted within the test port retainer housing. The pressure test chamber includes a manifold and a central tube. The first end of the central tube is affixed to the image capture assembly to form a pressure seal, and the second end of the central tube is coupled to the test port retainer so that the pressure test port communicates with the interior volume of the central tube through the test port retainer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190290104A1 A PRESSURE TEST PORT CONTAINED WITHIN A BODY OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENT Public/Granted day:2019-09-26
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