US 12,376,734 B2
Tip assemblies for real-time sampling system
Jean-Martin Baillargeon, Seattle, WA (US); Jason T. Panzenbeck, Seattle, WA (US); and Peter A. Lambe, Redmond, WA (US)
Assigned to Gyrus ACMI, Inc., Westborough, MA (US)
Filed by OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Hachioji (JP)
Filed on Oct. 4, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/493,320.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/109,558, filed on Nov. 4, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0133264 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/018 (2006.01); A61B 1/267 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/12 (2006.01); A61B 17/34 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 1/00066 (2013.01) [A61B 1/00137 (2013.01); A61B 1/018 (2013.01); A61B 1/2676 (2013.01); A61B 8/12 (2013.01); A61B 8/445 (2013.01); A61B 2017/3413 (2013.01); A61B 2090/3784 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3925 (2016.02)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
a flexible shaft comprising:
a first lumen configured to receive a radial ultrasound probe; and
a second lumen;
an end cap attached to a distal end of the flexible shaft, the end cap comprising:
a cap lumen configured to receive the radial ultrasound probe from the first lumen;
an exit port located at a proximal end of the end cap, the exit port configured to receive a medical device from the second lumen of the flexible shaft when the end cap is attached to the flexible shaft;
a first slot including a first elongated groove disposed in an outer surface of the end cap;
a second slot including a second elongated groove disposed in an outer surface of the end cap;
a first ultrasound reflecting material disposed in the first slot; and
a second ultrasound reflecting material disposed in the second slot,
wherein the first slot and the second slot are positioned on the outer surface to provide an indication of orientation of the exit port within an output from the radial ultrasound probe.