US 12,364,559 B2
Actuation line storage systems and methods
Michael J. Shepard, Flagstaff, DE (US); and James D. Silverman, Flagstaff, AZ (US)
Assigned to W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc., Newark, DE (US)
Appl. No. 17/433,156
Filed by W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc., Newark, DE (US)
PCT Filed Feb. 22, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/019131
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 23, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/171819, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0133423 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 34/00 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 34/71 (2016.02) [A61B 17/00234 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00336 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00367 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0046 (2013.01); A61B 2034/715 (2016.02)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
12. A fiber storage system for an actuation assembly, the fiber storage system comprising:
a first actuation line defining a first portion, a second portion, and an intermediate portion extending between the first portion and the second portion, the intermediate portion configured in a slack pattern; and
a release material having an inner surface defining an inner lumen of the release material, wherein the slack pattern at the intermediate portion of the first actuation line is maintained by the intermediate portion being releasably coupled to an inner aspect of the release material such that, upon tensioning the first portion of the first actuation line, the intermediate portion is serially released from the inner aspect of the release material according to the slack pattern without transferring tension to the second portion of the first actuation line.