US 11,730,555 B2
Surgical drape for thermal treatment basin
Heidi Frances Hendrix, Brookhaven, GA (US); David Richard Rawlings, Cumming, GA (US); and Michelle Wilson, Caledonia, MS (US)
Assigned to Microtek Medical, Inc., Columbus, MS (US)
Filed by Microtek Medical, Inc., Columbus, MS (US)
Filed on Sep. 27, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/144,706.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/564,229, filed on Sep. 27, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2019/0090972 A1, Mar. 28, 2019
Int. Cl. A61B 46/00 (2016.01); A61B 46/10 (2016.01); A61F 7/00 (2006.01); A61F 7/02 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 46/10 (2016.02) [A61B 46/40 (2016.02); A61F 7/0085 (2013.01); A61F 7/0241 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A drape comprising:
a thermoformed basin that is shape-indexed to a shape of a basin of a surgical system into which the thermoformed basin is configured to be inserted, the thermoformed basin being collapsible;
a flexible side sheet bonded to and extending about an entire perimeter of the thermoformed basin, wherein a perimeter of the thermoformed basin has a length and a width; and
at least one flexible window sheet positioned between and connected to the thermoformed basin and the flexible side sheet, the at least one flexible window sheet comprising a first flexible window and a second flexible window,
wherein the at least one flexible window sheet is thermally bonded to both the thermoformed basin and the flexible side sheet,
the first flexible window projects away from one lengthwise perimeter section of the thermoformed basin and is thermally bonded thereto,
the second flexible window projects away from an opposite lengthwise perimeter section of the thermoformed basin and is thermally bonded thereto, and
the flexible side sheet is thermally bonded to the thermoformed basin, the first flexible window, and the second flexible window about a perimeter defined, collectively, by the thermoformed basin, the first flexible window, and the second flexible window.