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US 12,635,993 B2Granted
Real-time sampling system
AssigneeOlympus Medical Systems Corp.
InventorsDavid A. Herrin, Christopher R. Ralph
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Abstract
Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses, systems, and methods for securing an elongated instrument within a control device used to extend the elongated instrument. In an illustrative embodiment, an apparatus includes a control device configured to facilitate extension of an elongated instrument to a target location. A port within an end of the control device is configured to compressably engage sides of the elongated instrument to secure the elongated instrument to move with the control device.
Claims17
An apparatus comprising:
- a radial ultrasound probe;
- an actuator movably disposed over a distal end of a housing portion of a control system, the actuator movable over the housing to extend the radial ultrasound probe within an insertion device used to sample tissue at a desired location within a patient's body;
- a port within an end of the actuator configured to receive the radial ultrasound probe;
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- a flexible gasket including a bore aligned with the port, the flexible gasket at least partially disposed within a mounting socket in a distal end of the actuator and configured to compress against sides of the radial ultrasound probe to secure the radial ultrasound probe within the port to move with the actuator.
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A system comprising:
- an elongated instrument sampling probe configured to convey a sampling needle and an imaging probe to a target location, wherein the imaging probe is a radial ultrasound probe;
- a needle actuator movably disposed over a distal end of a guide tube coupled to a control system, the needle actuator movable over the guide tube to extend the sampling needle to the target location;
- a port within an end of an actuator portion of the control system, the port configured to receive the imaging probe;
- a flexible gasket including a bore aligned with the port and disposed within a mounting socket in a distal end of the actuator portion, the flexible gasket configured to compressably engage sides of the imaging probe to secure the imaging probe to move with the actuator portion;
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- a rotatable cap movably disposed within the distal end of the actuator portion and configured to compress the flexible gasket upon rotation within the end of the actuator portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.