US 12,376,882 B2
Gynecological device
Dany Wyssen, Bienne (CH); Julien Finci, Basel (CH); Frédéric Flahaut, Neuchâtel (CH); Anne Polikeit, Bienn (CH); Marion Aeby, Villars-sur-Glâne (CH); Luc Bergeron, Boussens (CH); and Laurent Soldini, Lausanne (CH)
Assigned to ASPIVIX SA, Epalinges (CH)
Appl. No. 17/284,213
Filed by ASPIVIX SA, Epalinges (CH)
PCT Filed Oct. 4, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/076857
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 9, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/074369, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. CH01233/18 (CH), filed on Oct. 9, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0338284 A1, Nov. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/42 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/4241 (2013.01) [A61B 2017/00561 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0084 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A gynecological device comprising:
a body part having a vacuum chamber;
a rod unit with a distal end, a proximal end, and a channel extending between the distal end and the proximal end;
a cervix head arranged at the distal end of the rod unit; and
a sealing mechanism configured to switch between an ambient state and a vacuum state,
wherein the rod unit extends to the vacuum chamber of the body part such that the proximal end of the rod unit is located in the vacuum chamber of the body part,
wherein the cervix head is configured to engage a section of a cervix from a vaginal side,
wherein the sealing mechanism is configured such that:
in the ambient state of the sealing mechanism, the vacuum chamber of the body part is sealed and the channel of the rod unit is open to an exterior of the gynecological device such that a vacuum is generatable inside the vacuum chamber,
in the vacuum state of the sealing mechanism, the channel of the rod unit is open to the vacuum chamber of the body part and sealed to the exterior of the gynecological device such that a vacuum is applied at the cervix head, when being set to the cervix through a vagina, for gripping and/or pulling the cervix, and
by changing from the vacuum state to the ambient state of the sealing mechanism again, the cervix head is releasable from the cervix by eliminating the vacuum in the cervix head,
wherein the sealing mechanism comprises a sleeve element arranged in the vacuum chamber of the body part, and the sleeve element comprises an activation part extending to an exterior of the body part,
wherein the rod unit extends through the sleeve element, and
wherein the sleeve element is axially movable relative to the vacuum chamber and relative to the rod unit along an axis of the rod unit and/or of the gynecological device.