US 12,256,895 B2
Attachments for endoscopes
Harchetan Singh Aneja, Amritsar (IN); Boopathi Rajarathnam, Salem (IN); Swami Upadhyay, Raipur (IN); Shalin Singh Rawat, Rishikesh (IN); and Venkatesh Neelamegam, Tirupur (IN)
Assigned to BOSTON SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL DEVICE LIMITED, Galway (IE)
Filed by BOSTON SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL DEVICE LIMITED, Galway (IE)
Filed on Nov. 1, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/671,879.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/834,201, filed on Apr. 15, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/834,192, filed on Apr. 15, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/768,808, filed on Nov. 16, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/755,024, filed on Nov. 2, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0138274 A1, May 7, 2020
Int. Cl. A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/015 (2006.01); A61B 1/018 (2006.01); A61B 10/02 (2006.01); A61B 10/04 (2006.01); B29D 99/00 (2010.01)
CPC A61B 1/00137 (2013.01) [A61B 1/00064 (2013.01); A61B 1/0011 (2013.01); A61B 1/0014 (2013.01); A61B 1/00147 (2013.01); A61B 1/015 (2013.01); A61B 1/018 (2013.01); A61B 10/0275 (2013.01); A61B 10/04 (2013.01); B29D 99/0053 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An attachment for a biopsy port formed on a handle of an endoscope, the attachment comprising:
a biopsy cap having a distal end with a seal;
a housing having a chamber sized and configured to support the biopsy cap therein with the seal of the biopsy cap contacting and sealing against and across the proximal end of the biopsy port;
one or more locking members extending radially-inwardly from an inner surface of the housing, the locking members being positioned to engage the biopsy port; and
one or more stabilizing members extending radially-inwardly from the inner surface of the housing and circumferentially spaced apart from the one or more locking members, and positioned to engage the biopsy port and to stabilize a lateral position of the attachment with respect to the biopsy port.