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US 2018/0008136 A1Published application
Endoscope wiper blade cleaner
AssigneeCovidien LP
InventorsCormac O'Prey, Charlotte Adele Clark, Alistair Ian Fleming
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Abstract
A minimally invasive surgical instrument including a viewing instrument and a wiper mechanism configured and adapted to clean a lens of the viewing instrument. The wiper mechanism includes a wiper that is configured and adapted to contact and translate across a surface of the lens. An actuator moves the wiper across the lens to clean the lens.
Claims18
(canceled)
A surgical instrument comprising:
- a viewing instrument including a lens;
- and
- a wiper mechanism attachable to the viewing instrument, the wiper mechanism including:
- a sheath configured to receive the lens therethrough;
- and
- first and second members operatively coupled to the sheath, wherein the first member is rotatable about an axis of the second member when the lens extends distally through the sheath such that the first member wipes the lens.
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A surgical instrument comprising:
- a wiper mechanism operatively associated with a viewing instrument having a lens, the wiper mechanism including:
- first and second members, the first member pivotable with respect to the second member as the first member moves diametrically across the lens of the viewing instrument, the first and second members transitionable from a first position in which the first and second members are spaced apart relative to a surface of the lens, and a second position in which the first member is displaced across the surface of the lens.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.