US 11,849,920 B2
Biopsy cap for use with endoscope
Boopathi Rajarathnam, Salem (IN); Nishant Randhawa, S.A.S. Nagar (IN); Charudatta Chandrakant Aradhye, Solapur (IN); Swami Upadhyay, Gurgaon (IN); Vasanthan Mani, Bangalore (IN); Harchetan Singh Aneja, Gurgaon (IN); Balaji Aswatha Narayana, Bangalore (IN); Sharath Badadamath, Karnataka (IN); and Ramakanteswararao Beesetty, Gurgaon (IN)
Assigned to BOSTON SCIENTIFIC LIMITED, Hamilton (BM)
Filed by BOSTON SCIENTIFIC LIMITED, Hamilton (BM)
Filed on Jun. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/348,041.
Application 17/348,041 is a continuation of application No. 16/100,960, filed on Aug. 10, 2018, granted, now 11,064,870.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/544,581, filed on Aug. 11, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0307594 A1, Oct. 7, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 10/06 (2006.01); A61B 1/018 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 1/00137 (2013.01) [A61B 1/00094 (2013.01); A61B 1/00128 (2013.01); A61B 10/06 (2013.01); A61B 1/00154 (2013.01); A61B 1/018 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00296 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A biopsy cap configured to be secured to a port of a medical device, the biopsy cap comprising:
an outer shell having an interior volume;
a disk shutter section disposed within the interior volume of the shell and including a plurality of fins extending in a helical fashion radially-inwardly towards a disk shutter aperture; and
a brush section disposed within the interior volume of the shell, the brush section including a plurality of brushes extending inwardly towards a brush section aperture;
wherein the fins and brushes are deflectable to allow an elongate member to extend through the disk shutter aperture and the brush section aperture.