US 11,700,992 B2
Encapsulated components of medical devices, and methods therefor
Adam Michael Larouche, Bloomington, IN (US); Kirsten Viering, Newton, MA (US); John B. Golden, Norton, MA (US); Scott Kippenbrock, Avon, IN (US); Adam Dills, Bloomington, IN (US); and Seth Charles Schneider, Jeffersonville, IN (US)
Assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US)
Filed by Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US)
Filed on Jun. 27, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/454,224.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/691,045, filed on Jun. 28, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0000314 A1, Jan. 2, 2020
Int. Cl. A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/05 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 1/0008 (2013.01) [A61B 1/0011 (2013.01); A61B 1/00066 (2013.01); A61B 1/00096 (2013.01); A61B 1/05 (2013.01); A61B 1/0661 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A distal end portion of a medical device, the distal end portion having a proximal end and a distal end, the distal end portion comprising: an image capturing component including a lens, the lens including a side-facing surface between the proximal end and the distal end for receiving light from a first side of the distal end portion between the proximal end and the distal end; a light source including a light emitting diode (LED); and an encapsulation having inner surfaces contacting and at least partially encompassing the image capturing component and the light source, wherein a shape of the inner surfaces is a mirror image of a shape of exterior surfaces of the image capturing component and the light source that are contacted by the inner surfaces, wherein in a sagittal cross-section of the distal end portion that intersects the image capturing component and the LED there is an area between all surfaces of the image capturing component that face the LED and all surfaces of the LED that face the image capturing component, wherein the encapsulation fills all of the area, and wherein a distally facing surface of the encapsulation and the encompassed image capturing component and the light source includes only the encapsulation.