Laparoscope system
AssigneeEon Surgical Ltd.
InventorsDanny Farin, Yehuda Bachar
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Abstract
A visual system for laparoscopy comprising a visual device having a visual head member and an elongated connector; a manipulation device having a handheld operation portion, an insertion portion and a first contact element; and an external device comprising means to communicate with the vision head member, via the first contact element, when the elongated connector is mounted in an lumen of the insertion portion. The insertion portion of the manipulation device is configured to be extendable out from a body cavity through an airtight passage whereby the elongated connector is configured to be slidably mounted into the lumen of the insertion portion outside of the body cavity upon the insertion portion is withdrawn into the body cavity.
Claims20
A method of assembling a visual system comprising a manipulation device having an insertion portion and a first contact element and being connectable with a visual device having a vision head member and an elongated connector, the method comprising:
- extending a distal end of said insertion portion including a sharp or chamfered distal tip out of an airtight body cavity through an airtight passage from inside said airtight body cavity to outside said airtight body cavity, said airtight passage comprising an internal diameter greater than a maximal diameter of said vision head member;
- connecting said visual device to said manipulation device, said connecting includes slidably mounting a proximal end of said elongated connector into a lumen of said insertion portion while said distal end of said insertion portion including the sharp or chamfered distal tip is extended out of the airtight body cavity;
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- withdrawing said visual device into said cavity through said airtight passage.
A method of laparoscopic surgery comprising:
- providing a manipulation device having a handheld portion and an insertion portion including a sharp or chamfered distal tip;
- providing a visual device having an elongated connector and a visual head member attached to the elongated connector;
- extending the insertion portion including the sharp or chamfered distal tip from inside a body cavity to outside of the body cavity while the handheld portion remains outside of the body cavity;
- coupling the visual device to the manipulation device by inserting the elongated connector into the insertion portion outside of the body cavity;
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- withdrawing the coupled visual device into the body cavity using the handheld portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.