US 12,053,207 B2
Loading tool for a biostimulator
Byron Liehwah Chun, San Francisco, CA (US); Sondra Orts, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Thomas B. Eby, Mountain View, CA (US); Stephanie M. Raymond, Porter Ranch, CA (US); Mike Sacha, Chanhassen, MN (US); Bernhard Arnar, Minnetrista, MN (US); Adam Weber, Minnetonka, MN (US); Jennifer Heisel, Princeton, MN (US); and Wade Keller, Aliso Viejo, CA (US)
Assigned to PACESETTER, INC., Sylmar, CA (US)
Filed by Pacesetter, Inc., Sylmar, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 20, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/359,703.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/665,281, filed on May 1, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/645,928, filed on Mar. 21, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2019/0290323 A1, Sep. 26, 2019
Int. Cl. A61B 17/34 (2006.01); A61N 1/372 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61N 1/362 (2006.01); A61N 1/375 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/3468 (2013.01) [A61N 1/372 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00292 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00477 (2013.01); A61N 1/362 (2013.01); A61N 1/3756 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A loading tool for loading a biostimulator onto a biostimulator delivery system, comprising:
a first body portion;
a latch slidably mounted on the first body portion and including a latch hook;
a second body portion pivotally coupled to the first body portion at a hinge having a hinge axis, wherein the second body portion has a keeper including a keeper recess in an outer surface of the second body portion, wherein the keeper recess is exposed radially outward from the hinge axis through the outer surface, wherein the keeper recess has an L-shaped profile including a vertical section to receive the latch hook through the outer surface when the second body portion pivots about the hinge against the first body portion, wherein the L-shaped profile includes a horizontal section to lock the first body portion against the second body portion when the latch slides to move the latch hook from the vertical section into the horizontal section, and wherein the first body portion and the second body portion are on a first side of a plane containing the hinge axis when the latch fastens the first body portion to the second body portion; and
a plurality of wing tabs extending outward from the first body portion and the second body portion on an opposite side of the plane from the first body portion and the second body portion, wherein a transverse plane orthogonal to the hinge axis intersects the plurality of wing tabs.