Devices for cleaning medical videoscopes
AssigneeCovidien LP
InventorsAmarsinh Deeliprao Jadhav, Raja Kamaraj, Peter Marshall
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Abstract
A device for cleaning a medical videoscope includes a housing defining a channel, a disposable cartridge configured to be removable disposed within the channel of the housing, and a heating module. The cartridge includes an elongate body defining a cavity therein configured for receipt of a medical videoscope. The cartridge includes a white balancing material disposed in a distal portion of the elongate body, a defogging material disposed in the elongate body, a valve supported in a proximal portion of the elongate body, and a seal disposed over the valve.
Claims20
A device for cleaning a medical videoscope, comprising:
- a housing defining a channel;
- a disposable cartridge configured to be removably disposed within the channel of the housing and including:
- an elongate body defining a cavity therein configured for receipt of a medical videoscope;
- a white balancing material disposed in a distal portion of the elongate body;
- a valve supported in a proximal portion of the elongate body;
- and
- a seal disposed over the valve;
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- a heating module disposed within the housing for heating a defogging material disposed in the elongate body.
A method of cleaning a medical videoscope, comprising:
- heating a defogging material of a cartridge with a heating module of a main unit, both the cartridge and the heating mechanism being disposed within a housing of the main unit;
- inserting a medical videoscope through a valve and a seal of the cartridge, both the valve and the seal disposed within an elongate body of the cartridge;
- contacting a scope lens of the medical videoscope with the heated defogging material and with a white-balancing material disposed within the elongate body, thereby cleaning and white-balancing the scope lens of the medical videoscope;
- withdrawing the medical videoscope from the cartridge;
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- removing the cartridge from the main unit via a channel defined in the housing of the main unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.