US 12,303,655 B2
Ergonomic steering handle
Gregory Altshuler, Lincoln, MA (US); Ilya Yaroslavsky, North Andover, MA (US); Dmitri Boutoussov, Southborough, MA (US); Viktoriya Andreeva, Moscow Region (RU); Olivier Traxer, Paris (FR); Michael Barenboym, Boston, MA (US); Isaac Ostrovsky, Wellesley, MA (US); and Anastasiya Kovalenko, Moscow Region (RU)
Assigned to IPG PHOTONICS CORPORATION, Marlborough, MA (US)
Filed by IPG PHOTONICS CORPORATION, Marlborough, MA (US)
Filed on Mar. 2, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/116,436.
Application 18/116,436 is a division of application No. 17/423,943, granted, now 11,617,858, previously published as PCT/US2020/014285, filed on Jan. 20, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/868,105, filed on Jun. 28, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/794,328, filed on Jan. 18, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0263996 A1, Aug. 24, 2023
Int. Cl. A61M 25/01 (2006.01); G05G 1/10 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 25/0136 (2013.01) [G05G 1/10 (2013.01); A61M 2205/586 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of relieving hand fatigue while operating a catheter steering handle, comprising:
providing a catheter steering handle operatively coupled to a catheter, the catheter steering handle having a hosing that includes a body portion defining a handle axis that is curvilinear and a head portion and a base portion separated by the body portion along the handle axis, the housing defining a mid-plane that is coplanar with the handle axis and passes through a forward side and a rearward side of the housing,
wherein the housing defines a transition portion at a junction between the body portion and the head portion, the head portion and the transition portion defining a catch on the forward side of the housing at the mid-plane, the catch defining a hook profile configured for insertion of a phalange of a hand of a user and formed by a protrusion that extends in a forward direction from the head portion and partially over the body portion, and at least a portion of the protrusion provides a finger rest; and
providing operating instructions on a tangible, non-transitory medium, the operating instructions including:
grasping the body portion of the catheter steering handle between a palm and phalanges of the hand, with a first of the phalanges of the hand being disposed within the catch defined by the catheter steering handle;
articulating a thumb lever of the catheter steering handle with a thumb of the hand to steer the catheter; and
relaxing or opening the hand to release the body portion of the catheter steering handle with the catch of the catheter steering handle passing over the first of the phalanges so that the catheter steering handle hangs from the first of the phalanges.