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US 10,327,749 B1Granted
Surgery manipulator
OwnerLeslie C. Passonsinventor
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Abstract
A surgical manipulating instrument provides a shaft with pivoting arms operably coupled thereto to transition between an inserting configuration with the arms at least substantially parallel to the shaft and a deployed configuration with the arms fanned out to provide a paddle within a person during surgical procedures. The shaft may provide access for a suction and/or irrigation device.
Claims9
A surgical manipulating instrument comprising:
- an operator, said operator selectively operable between first and second positions to thereby transition the instrument between installing and deployed configurations;
- arms operably coupled to first and second collars with one of the first and second collars connected to a shaft, said arms disposed at least substantially parallel to the shaft in the installing configuration, said arms extending readily outwardly intermediate the first and second collars relative to the shaft to at least partially assist in providing a paddle extending intermediate the collars and the arms with the shaft intermediate the arms in the deployed configuration and providing a maximum width intermediate the collars in the deployed configuration with the first and second collars closer together in the deployed configuration than in the installing configuration, and another of the first and second collars operably coupled to and moving linearly relative to the shaft between the deployed and the installing configuration, and the arms which comprise first and second arms are directly connected to the first collar;
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- a port at a distal end of a bore, said port distally disposed relative to the arms of the paddle at a fixed distance from the operator, the bore extending through the operator, and the operator extending through the shaft;
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- a probe, said probe selectively directable through the bore of the operator from a removed configuration to a fully inserted configuration relative to the shaft with a terminal end of the bore a fixed distance from the operator in both the installing and deployed configurations, said probe being secured to the operator in the fully inserted configuration and said probe providing irrigation internally through the probe to discharge out of the port from a supply.
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