US 11,937,972 B2
Medical devices with a quick release drive connector
Anthony K. Misener, Bountiful, UT (US); and Steffan Sowards, Salt Lake City, UT (US)
Assigned to Bard Access Systems, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US)
Filed by Bard Access Systems, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US)
Filed on Nov. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/520,558.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/110,795, filed on Nov. 6, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0142607 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/02 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/12 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 8/0841 (2013.01) [A61B 8/02 (2013.01); A61B 8/0891 (2013.01); A61B 8/12 (2013.01); A61B 8/4254 (2013.01); A61B 90/39 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3925 (2016.02); A61B 2562/0223 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medical device system, comprising: an elongate medical device, comprising: a proximal end including one or more sensor connectors; and a distal end including one or more sensors or emitters wired to the one or more sensor connectors, wherein the one or more sensors or emitters include one or more electromagnetic coils and one or more electrocardiogram (ECG) sensors; and a quick-release drive connector comprising a housing body including one or more sensor connector attachments including one or more electromagnetic coil attachments and one or more electrocardiogram sensor attachments, the quick-release drive connector configured to: a) slide over the proximal end of the elongate medical device and engage the one or more sensor connectors with the one or more sensor connector attachments, wherein engagement is configured to cause current to flow from the quick-release drive connector to the one or more electromagnetic coils causing generation of an electromagnetic field, and b) slide off the proximal end of the elongate medical device and disengage the one or more sensor connectors from the one or more sensor connector attachments wherein disengagement is configured to stop the current from flowing from the quick-release drive connector to the one or more sensors or emitters.