US 11,903,777 B2
Systems and methods for cleaning endoscopic instruments
Joseph A Kemp, San Jose, CA (US); Federico Barbagli, San Francisco, CA (US); Joseph R. Callol, San Mateo, CA (US); Vincent Duindam, San Francisco, CA (US); Lucas S. Gordon, Mountain View, CA (US); Randall L. Schlesinger, San Mateo, CA (US); Samuel B. Schorr, East Palo Alto, CA (US); and Worth B. Walters, Campbell, CA (US)
Assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Appl. No. 16/763,171
Filed by INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
PCT Filed Nov. 13, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/060796
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 11, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/099396, PCT Pub. Date May 23, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/585,922, filed on Nov. 14, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0383750 A1, Dec. 10, 2020
Int. Cl. A61B 90/70 (2016.01); A61M 25/00 (2006.01); A61M 39/22 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); G01F 13/00 (2006.01); G05D 7/06 (2006.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.01); A61B 34/37 (2016.01); A61B 1/12 (2006.01); A61B 1/267 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 90/70 (2016.02) [A61B 17/00234 (2013.01); A61M 25/00 (2013.01); A61M 39/223 (2013.01); G01F 13/00 (2013.01); G05D 7/0623 (2013.01); A61B 1/125 (2013.01); A61B 1/2676 (2013.01); A61B 34/37 (2016.02); A61B 2017/00314 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00323 (2013.01); A61B 2034/2051 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2061 (2016.02); A61B 2090/701 (2016.02); A61B 2217/005 (2013.01); A61B 2217/007 (2013.01); A61M 2025/0019 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3334 (2013.01); A61M 2205/50 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for controlling fluid delivery to a medical instrument, the method comprising:
releasing, from a reservoir of a known size and having fluid at a volume and a first fluid pressure, a released fluid volume of the fluid to the medical instrument;
measuring a vented fluid volume; and
determining a discharged fluid volume through the medical instrument based on the released fluid volume and the vented fluid volume.