US 12,279,847 B2
Sterile channel pre-drape assembly
Humphrey W. Chow, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed by INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 9, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/185,113.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/584,445, filed on Nov. 10, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2019/0142540 A1, May 16, 2019
Int. Cl. A61B 46/10 (2016.01); A61B 34/30 (2016.01); A61B 34/35 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 46/10 (2016.02) [A61B 34/35 (2016.02); A61B 34/30 (2016.02)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
a sterile channel pre-drape assembly comprising a plurality of legs radiating in differing radial directions from a common center region, each of the plurality of legs comprising a pair of opposing and facing sterile interior surfaces and a pair of oppositely facing outer surfaces, wherein the pair of sterile interior surfaces defines a sterile channel,
wherein the interior and outer surfaces of each of the plurality of legs extend generally along a proximal-distal direction that is perpendicular to the differing radial directions; and
a sterile drape sleeve extending between an open proximal end and a distal end, the open proximal end of the sterile drape sleeve surrounded by wall portions of the sleeve,
wherein the wall portions of the sleeve are configured to be received in two sterile channels of a pair of adjacent legs of the plurality of legs of the sterile channel pre-drape assembly, and
wherein, with the wall portions of the sterile drape sleeve received in the two sterile channels, the sterile drape sleeve extends distally from the sterile channel pre-drape assembly.