US 12,257,175 B2
Intravaginal device
Hilla Shaviv, Mevaseret Zion (IL); Nadav Cohen, Haifa (IL); Omer Shezifi, Haifa (IL); and Daniel Rosenblum, Ramat Hasharon (IL)
Assigned to Gals Bio Ltd., Mevaseret Zion (IL)
Appl. No. 17/050,447
Filed by Gals Bio Ltd., Mevaseret Zion (IL)
PCT Filed May 3, 2019, PCT No. PCT/IB2019/053623
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 25, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/211802, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 7, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/666,157, filed on May 3, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0137725 A1, May 13, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61F 5/455 (2006.01); A61M 31/00 (2006.01); A61F 13/20 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 5/4553 (2013.01) [A61B 5/4337 (2013.01); A61M 31/002 (2013.01); A61F 13/2045 (2013.01); A61M 2210/1475 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An intravaginal device comprising:
arms, each of the arms has a proximal portion that pivots from a proximal base;
struts, each of the struts has a first end coupled to a shaft arranged to slide in a tube and a second end coupled to one of said arms; and
a string coupled to said shaft and arranged for pulling in a proximal direction, said arms having a stowed orientation in which said struts are folded inwards such that the second ends point towards a proximal end of said intravaginal device, and said arms having a deployed orientation in which said struts point radially outwards and tautly hold said arms in an expanded position in which distal ends of said arms define a distal open end, and wherein a covering surrounds said arms, and in the expanded position, a fluid can flow into said distal open end and the fluid is retained in said covering until the fluid is removed from said covering, and wherein each of said second ends is coupled to one of said arms in both the stowed orientation and the deployed orientation.