US 11,744,601 B2
Sinuplasty tool
Yehuda Algawi, Binyamina (IL); Assaf Govari, Haifa (IL); Andres Claudio Altmann, Haifa (IL); Vadim Gliner, Haifa (IL); and Ilya Sitnitsky, Nahariya (IL)
Assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd., Yokneam (IL)
Filed by BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD., Yokneam (IL)
Filed on Jul. 30, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/943,742.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/893,884, filed on Aug. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0059700 A1, Mar. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 8/12 (2006.01); A61B 17/24 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61M 29/02 (2006.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.01); A61B 1/07 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 90/30 (2016.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 17/24 (2013.01) [A61B 1/000095 (2022.02); A61B 1/07 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 8/12 (2013.01); A61B 8/483 (2013.01); A61B 8/5261 (2013.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.02); A61M 29/02 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00296 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00323 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00867 (2013.01); A61B 2034/2051 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2065 (2016.02); A61B 2090/306 (2016.02); A61B 2090/309 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3784 (2016.02); A61B 2217/007 (2013.01); A61M 2210/0681 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An instrument, comprising:
(a) a handle;
(b) a rigid tube, containing a rigid tube lumen, having a rigid tube distal end and a rigid tube proximal end connected to the handle;
(c) a resilient tube, containing a resilient tube lumen, having a resilient tube distal end and a resilient tube proximal end fixedly attached to the rigid tube distal end so that the resilient tube lumen and the rigid tube lumen align, the resilient tube having a multiplicity of separated openings partially encircling the resilient tube so as to form ribs in the resilient tube and permitting the resilient tube to bend, the resilient tube distal end being configured to be inserted into a sinus of a body of a living subject;
(d) a strip within the resilient tube lumen and configured to partition a first portion of the resilient tube lumen from a second portion of the resilient tube lumen, and
(e) a wire, traversing the aligned lumens, connected to a region in proximity to the resilient tube distal end and coupled to the handle, so that applying tension to the wire causes the resilient tube to bend.