Systems and methods for draping a medical device
AssigneeStryker Corporation
InventorsPedro A. Perez, Jared Coffeen
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Abstract
A drape for a medical device, the drape including a flexible drape material for covering at least a portion of a medical device and configured to be cinched in at least one location to form an enclosed space for enclosing the at least a portion of the medical device, and a vacuum manifold that, when the flexible drape material is cinched, is positioned at least partially within the enclosed space for creating a vacuum in the enclosed space to cause the flexible drape material to conform to the at least a portion of the medical device when the at least a portion of the medical device is positioned within the enclosed space.
Claims25
A drape for a medical camera, the drape comprising:
- a flexible drape material for covering at least a portion of the medical camera and configured to be cinched in at least one location along the flexible drape material to form an enclosed space for enclosing the at least a portion of the medical camera;
- a vacuum manifold that, when the flexible drape material is cinched, is positioned at least partially within the enclosed space for creating a vacuum in the enclosed space to cause the flexible drape material to conform to the at least a portion of the medical camera when the at least a portion of the medical camera is positioned within the enclosed space, and
- an adapter for mounting to the medical camera, wherein the adapter is affixed to the drape material.
A method of draping a medical camera comprising:
- mounting an adapter of a drape to the medical camera, wherein the adapter is affixed to the flexible drape material;
- positioning a flexible drape material of the drape over at least a portion of the medical camera;
- cinching the flexible drape material to form an enclosed space within which the at least a portion of the medical camera is positioned;
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- applying a vacuum to the enclosed space via a vacuum manifold that is positioned at least partially within the enclosed space so that the flexible drape material conforms to the at least a portion of the medical camera.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.