US 12,090,005 B2Granted

Positioning apparatus for biomedical use

AssigneeConmed Corporation

InventorsGuillaume Chauvette, Charles Sévigny

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Abstract

A medical positioning apparatus including a telescopic member extending between first and second ends and having an adjustable length; a support member for receiving an object; a base member securable to a base; a first joint mechanism movably securing the support member to the first end of the telescopic member; a second joint mechanism including a housing with a top portion directly rotationally connected to the second end of the telescopic member, and at least one side portion directly rotationally connected to the base member and movably securing the base member to the second end of the telescopic member, a locking device operatively connected to the first and second joint mechanisms and the telescopic member, the locking device operable between a locked position and a released position; and a lock activation device to unlock the locking device biased in the locked position.

Claims14

Dependent claims

A medical positioning apparatus for positioning and holding an object, comprising:

a telescopic member extending along a single axis extending between a first end and a second end and having an adjustable length along the single axis, wherein the telescopic member comprises a first hollow elongated member and a second hollow elongated member;
a third hollow elongated member connected to the second hollow elongated member, wherein the second and third hollow elongated members are connected by a connector;
a lock activation device connected to the telescopic member, wherein a fluid connection extends between the lock activation device and a T-shaped manifold within the connector;
an interface member for receiving the object;
a first joint mechanism movably and securing the interface member to the first end of the telescopic member;
a second joint mechanism connected to the second end of the telescopic member;
a base member movably connected to the second joint mechanism;
wherein the second joint mechanism is directly rotationally connected to the base member and movably secures the base member to the second end of the telescopic member;
and
wherein the first and second joint mechanisms each having at least two rotational degrees of freedom.

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Facts

Application: 16/587,275Filed 30 Sep 2019 · continuation
Priority: 7 Dec 2010
Published: US 2020/0022776 A123 Jan 2020
Granted: 17 Sep 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

A61B 90/50
Instruments, implements or accessories specially adapted for surgery or diagnosis and not covered by any of the groups A61B1/00 - A61B50/00,…
A61B 90/14
For stereotaxic surgery, e.g. frame-based stereotaxis: fixators for body parts, e.g. skull clamps; Constructional details of fixators, e.g. pins
A61F 5/3761
Restraining devices for the body or for body parts; Restraining shirts: for attaching the limbs to other objects
A61G 13/128
Rests specially adapted therefor; Arrangements of patient-supporting surfaces: with mechanical surface adaptations

Family

Application61/420,468Us provisional application · filed 7 Dec 2010
PCT/CA2011/001347Parent of this continuation · filed 6 Dec 2011
Application15/357,115Parent of this continuation · filed 21 Nov 2016
US 9,532,842 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 3 Jan 2017
US 2020/0022776 A1Pre-grant publication · published 23 Jan 2020
US 10,426,570 B2Parent of this continuation
Application13/991,962Parent of this continuation
US 2013/0247919 A1Published application
US 2017/0065366 A1Published application
US 12,090,005 B2This patent

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