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US 10,738,810 B2Granted
Trocar packaging clip
AssigneeCovidien LP
InventorsSamantha Smith, Krishnakumar Somasundaram, Rahul Shinde, Roshan Lohar, Richard C. Hart
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Abstract
A packaging device for a trocar assembly includes a trocar packaging clip having at least two holding structures configured to be detachably secured to the proximal portions of the trocar obturator and the cannula for retention of the trocar obturator and cannula relative to each other. The trocar packaging clip includes an anti-rotation structure configured to engage at least one of the trocar and the cannula to prevent relative rotation thereof.
Claims9
A trocar assembly including a packaging device, comprising:
- a trocar obturator;
- a cannula having a stopcock lever;
- a clip defining a first longitudinal axis along a length thereof, the clip configured to detachably secure the trocar obturator and the cannula thereto such that the trocar obturator and the cannula are substantially parallel with respect to the first longitudinal axis of the clip, the clip including a finger including a thickness and a length orthogonal to the thickness and greater than the thickness, the length defining a second longitudinal axis substantially parallel with the first longitudinal axis of the clip, the finger including an engaging portion and opposing guides defining a notch therebetween, the finger defining an opening axially spaced apart from the engaging portion along the second longitudinal axis, the notch having a general concavity along the length of the finger, a portion of the stopcock lever of the cannula extending through the notch to inhibit rotation of the stopcock lever.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.