US 12,402,777 B2
Medical imaging device
Eric Lent, Roberts, WI (US); and Niraj Rauniyar, Plymouth, MN (US)
Assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US)
Filed by Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US)
Filed on Dec. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/396,860.
Application 18/396,860 is a continuation of application No. 17/448,088, filed on Sep. 20, 2021, granted, now 11,896,199.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/083,151, filed on Sep. 25, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0122451 A1, Apr. 18, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 1/0008 (2013.01) [A61B 1/00117 (2013.01); A61B 1/0676 (2013.01); A61B 1/0684 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medical device, comprising:
a shaft having a distal facing surface at a distal end of the shaft and defining a channel having a distal opening; and
a printed circuit board (PCB) coupled to the distal end of the shaft and having a concavity to expose the distal opening of the channel to an external environment, wherein the PCB includes an electrical component mounted on a distal facing surface of the PCB;
wherein the distal facing surface of the shaft and the distal facing surface of the PCB are flush.