公开(公告)号：US20240358234A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-31

申请号：US18612289

申请日：2024-03-21

Applicant: Covidien LP

Inventor： Shai Tofach ,  Chenghao Bi ,  Derek S. Tata

IPC: A61B1/00 ,  A61B1/005 ,  A61B1/018 ,  A61B1/05

CPC classification number: A61B1/0011 ,  A61B1/00097 ,  A61B1/00114 ,  A61B1/00124 ,  A61B1/0057 ,  A61B1/018 ,  A61B1/05

Abstract: The present technology relates to articulating endoscopes and methods for manufacturing articulating endoscopes. An example endoscope includes an outer jacket extending a length of the endoscope; an outer wall, interior to the outer jacket, of an extrusion extending at least 80% of the length of the endoscope and ending at a bendable region of the endoscope; an inner wall, interior to the outer wall, extending at least 90% of a length of the endoscope and through the bendable region, the inner wall defining a working channel through the endoscope; a plurality of fins extending from the inner wall to the outer wall and defining a plurality of auxiliary channels between the inner wall and the outer wall; a first pull wire extending through a first auxiliary channel of the plurality of auxiliary channels; and a second pull wire extending through a second auxiliary channel of the plurality of auxiliary channels.

公开(公告)号：US20240335094A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-10

申请号：US18748102

申请日：2024-06-20

Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation

Inventor： Takeichi TATSUTA ,  Shinichiro SONODA ,  Issei SUZUKI

IPC: A61B1/00 ,  A61B1/045 ,  A61B1/06 ,  A61B5/06 ,  A61B5/107 ,  G01B11/02 ,  G01B11/14 ,  G01B11/25 ,  G01B21/04 ,  G01N21/954 ,  G02B23/24 ,  G06T7/00

CPC classification number: A61B1/00045 ,  A61B1/00009 ,  A61B1/00096 ,  A61B1/00097 ,  A61B1/045 ,  A61B1/063 ,  A61B1/0676 ,  A61B5/064 ,  A61B5/1076 ,  G01B11/02 ,  G01B11/026 ,  G01B11/028 ,  G01B11/14 ,  G01B11/25 ,  G01B21/045 ,  G01N21/954 ,  G02B23/24 ,  G02B23/243 ,  G02B23/2461 ,  G06T7/0012

Abstract: An endoscope includes an insertion part, an end surface provided on a distal end of the insertion part, a plurality of illuminating lenses disposed on the end surface, a forceps port disposed on the end surface, an imaging sensor configured to capture an image of a subject, an imaging lens disposed on the end surface on a same optical path as the imaging sensor, and a measurement auxiliary light head from which measurement auxiliary light is radiated within an imaging range of the image captured by the imaging sensor, the measurement auxiliary light head being disposed on the end surface. When the end surface is viewed from a front, the plurality of illuminating lenses are disposed on two sides of an optical axis of the measurement auxiliary light and are disposed on two sides of a line connecting the forceps port and the imaging lens.

公开(公告)号：US12102293B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-01

申请号：US16943789

申请日：2020-07-30

Applicant: BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD.

Inventor： Assaf Govari ,  Andres Claudio Altmann ,  Yehuda Algawi ,  Ilya Sitnitsky ,  Vadim Gliner ,  Yair Palti

IPC: A61B1/005 ,  A61B1/00 ,  A61B1/07 ,  A61B1/227 ,  A61B1/233 ,  A61B1/273 ,  A61B18/00 ,  A61B18/14 ,  A61B90/00

CPC classification number: A61B1/005 ,  A61B1/00097 ,  A61B1/0052 ,  A61B1/07 ,  A61B1/227 ,  A61B1/233 ,  A61B1/273 ,  A61B18/1492 ,  A61B90/37 ,  A61B2018/00059 ,  A61B2018/0072 ,  A61B2018/00732 ,  A61B2018/00827 ,  A61B2018/00875 ,  A61B2018/00982 ,  A61B2018/1467 ,  A61B2090/3762

Abstract: A guidewire, consisting of a flexible biocompatible tube, having a tube distal end, the tube containing an internal lumen and being configured to be inserted into an orifice of a body of a living subject. A planar resilient strip is inserted into the internal lumen, the strip having a strip proximal end and a strip distal end fixed to the tube distal end. A coil spring is fixed to the strip proximal end so that an axis of symmetry of the coil is coplanar with the strip, the coil spring containing a coil lumen. A wire is threaded through the coil lumen and has a termination fixed to the strip distal end, so that pulling on the wire causes the strip and the tube to bend.

公开(公告)号：US12016529B2

公开(公告)日：2024-06-25

申请号：US16708039

申请日：2019-12-09

Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.

Inventor： Peter J. Pereira ,  Eric Wong ,  William Stanhope ,  Timothy Paul Harrah ,  Thomas Michael Zappia, Jr. ,  Kimberly Degraaf ,  Adam Perry Nodiff

IPC: A61B1/00 ,  A61B1/005 ,  A61B1/018 ,  A61B1/045

CPC classification number: A61B1/018 ,  A61B1/00045 ,  A61B1/00097 ,  A61B1/00103 ,  A61B1/0051 ,  A61B1/045 ,  A61B2562/0219 ,  A61B2562/0247 ,  A61B2562/0257 ,  A61B2562/0271

Abstract: A scope system includes a processor and a scope device. The scope device includes a handle configured to remain outside of the body and an elongated shaft extending from the handle to a distal tip and including a working channel extending therethrough. The working channel is open at the distal tip of the shaft. The shaft is inserted through a bodily lumen to a target surgical site. The shaft includes at least one sensor transmitting to the processor sensor data relating to the target surgical site.

公开(公告)号：US20240033033A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-01

申请号：US18379443

申请日：2023-10-12

Applicant: Covidien LP

Inventor： John W. Komp ,  Irena Cantrall

IPC: A61B90/00 ,  A61B34/20 ,  G06T7/50 ,  G06T7/70 ,  A61B1/00 ,  G06F9/54 ,  A61B1/06

CPC classification number: A61B90/36 ,  A61B34/20 ,  G06T7/50 ,  G06T7/70 ,  A61B1/00004 ,  A61B1/00045 ,  G06F9/542 ,  A61B1/000094 ,  A61B1/00042 ,  A61B1/00097 ,  A61B1/00194 ,  A61B1/0605 ,  A61B2034/2065 ,  G06T2207/10068

Abstract: A system and method for enhanced surgical navigation and graphical user interfaces associated therewith. The system includes a 3D endoscope and a computing device including a display for displaying the graphical user interfaces. The 3D endoscope includes a camera source and a scan source and is utilized to generate a 3D spatial map of a surgical site. A position of a surgical tool is detected in the 3D spatial map, a distance between the position of the surgical tool in the 3D spatial map and a location of an anatomy is detected, and a warning is generated when it is determined that the distance between the position of the surgical tool in the 3D spatial map and the location of the anatomy is equal to or not greater than a threshold minimum distance.

公开(公告)号：US20240000493A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-04

申请号：US18343012

申请日：2023-06-28

Applicant: John H. SHADDUCK

Inventor： John H. SHADDUCK

IPC: A61B18/06 ,  A61B1/00 ,  A61B1/005 ,  A61B1/05 ,  A61B1/015 ,  A61B1/06

CPC classification number: A61B18/06 ,  A61B1/00103 ,  A61B1/0057 ,  A61B1/05 ,  A61B1/015 ,  A61B1/00097 ,  A61B1/00082 ,  A61B1/0684 ,  A61B2018/00577

Abstract: Medical instruments and systems for applying energy to tissue, and more particularly relates to a system for ablating thin layers of the wall of a lumen in a patient's gastrointestinal tract such as a small intestine to cause an intended therapeutic effect. Devices perform the treatment by contacting targeted tissue with a vapor phase media wherein a subsequent vapor-to-liquid phase change of the media applies thermal energy to the tissue.

公开(公告)号：US20230414089A1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-28

申请号：US18035918

申请日：2021-11-08

Applicant: REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

Inventor： Litty JOHN ,  Tjorvi PERRY ,  Abhimanyu KUMAR

IPC: A61B1/267 ,  A61B1/008 ,  A61B1/00 ,  A61B1/06 ,  A61B1/05 ,  A61B1/015 ,  A61B1/07

CPC classification number: A61B1/2676 ,  A61B1/008 ,  A61B1/00097 ,  A61B1/0676 ,  A61M16/0488 ,  A61B1/00135 ,  A61B1/015 ,  A61B1/07 ,  A61B1/05

Abstract: Devices and Expert Systems for Intubation and Bronchoscopy incorporating a robotic scope and a self-learning neural network via a processing chip in the handle of the device. Sensors in a distal portion of the robotic scope provide input to the processing chip that determines future policies according to the current data received and past data stored. The distal portion of the device is directed to a target by a robotic scope directed by the processing chip.

公开(公告)号：US11850396B2

公开(公告)日：2023-12-26

申请号：US17082769

申请日：2020-10-28

Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC LIMITED

Inventor： Paul Byrne ,  Lee Smith ,  Leah Fanning ,  Niraj Prasad Rauniyar ,  Nishant Khattar ,  Vivek Shah ,  Dipen Arun Tasgaonkar

IPC: A61M5/168 ,  A61B1/015 ,  A61B1/307 ,  A61M3/02 ,  A61B1/00 ,  A61M5/14

CPC classification number: A61M5/168 ,  A61B1/0004 ,  A61B1/00097 ,  A61B1/015 ,  A61B1/307 ,  A61M3/0254 ,  A61M2005/1402 ,  A61M2205/127 ,  A61M2205/18 ,  A61M2205/3331 ,  A61M2205/3334 ,  A61M2205/3365 ,  A61M2205/3368 ,  A61M2205/505 ,  A61M2205/52

Abstract: A fluid management and medical device system may include a fluid management system and a medical device having one or more sensors proximate the distal end of the elongate shaft of the medical device. The controller of the fluid management system may be configured to calculate a fluid deficit when the distal end of the elongate shaft is disposed within a patient and configured to automatically pause fluid deficit calculation when the distal end of the elongate shaft is removed from the patient. In some instances the controller is configured to calculate the fluid deficit using rotational speed of the inflow pump in combination with a difference between a change in weight of a fluid supply source supplying fluid to the fluid management system and a change in weight of a collection container collecting fluid from the fluid management system.

公开(公告)号：US20230404554A1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-21

申请号：US18210954

申请日：2023-06-16

Applicant: REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAM

Inventor： Sandra Dubaisi ,  Julia Greenspan ,  Jessica Jonah ,  Sara Staley ,  Allison Wilcox ,  Marilyn S. Filter ,  Lyn Behnke ,  Line van Niewstadt

IPC: A61B10/04 ,  A61B1/303 ,  A61B1/31 ,  A61B1/00

CPC classification number: A61B10/04 ,  A61B1/303 ,  A61B1/31 ,  A61B1/00066 ,  A61B1/00097 ,  A61B1/00154 ,  A61B2010/0216

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for conducting gynecological or proctological exams. The apparatus including a sensor body having a longitudinal axis, a proximal end, a distal end, a first passage disposed coaxial with the longitudinal axis and passing through the sensor body from the proximal end to the distal end, and a second passage including a first opening disposed proximate the distal end of the sensor body. Additionally, the apparatus includes a grip disposed on the proximal end of the sensor body, the grip including a second opening of the second passage. Further, the present disclosure provides a brush control mechanism having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end of the brush control mechanism configured to pass through the first passage from the distal end of the sensor body; and a brush disposed on the distal end of the brush control mechanism.

公开(公告)号：US11826015B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-28

申请号：US17917241

申请日：2021-04-08

Applicant: Ankon Medical Technologies (Shanghai) Co., LTD

Inventor： Xiaodong Duan ,  Qingqing Wang

IPC: A61B1/00 ,  A61B1/04 ,  H04N23/698 ,  A61B1/273 ,  A61B5/06 ,  A61B90/00

CPC classification number: A61B1/00006 ,  A61B1/00097 ,  A61B1/00158 ,  A61B1/041 ,  A61B1/2736 ,  A61B5/061 ,  H04N23/698 ,  A61B2090/067

Abstract: A system and method for controlling a capsule endoscope is provided. The control method includes: measuring a magnetic field value of the environment in which the capsule endoscope is subjected; obtaining a critical magnetic field value for suspension of the capsule endoscope according to the magnetic field value; adjusting a traction force on the capsule endoscope according to the critical magnetic field value for suspension; and controlling the movement of the capsule endoscope in a horizontal and/or vertical direction, wherein the movement of the first magnet is controlled by moving the second magnet, and the capsule endoscope is in a quasi-suspended state as moving in the horizontal and/or vertical direction. The system and method reduce friction between the capsule endoscope and wall of the target area during movement by controlling the capsule endoscope in a quasi-suspended state, which makes the scanning of the target area more accurate.