US 12,408,819 B2
Basket device for endoscope
Byung Sik Cheon, Daejeon (KR); and Dong Soo Kwon, Daejeon (KR)
Assigned to ROEN Surgical, Inc., Daejeon (KR)
Appl. No. 17/423,466
Filed by ROEN Surgical, Inc., Daejeon (KR)
PCT Filed Aug. 29, 2019, PCT No. PCT/KR2019/011047
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 15, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/149484, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 23, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0006321 (KR), filed on Jan. 17, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0117467 A1, Apr. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/012 (2006.01); A61B 1/018 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 1/00085 (2013.01) [A61B 1/0125 (2013.01); A61B 1/018 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A basket device for an endoscope, comprising:
a base tube attached to an end of an endoscope tube, and including at least one channel through which an endoscopic camera or a surgical instrument passes;
a plurality of baskets provided at locations separate from each other in a radial direction along an edge of an end of the base tube, and protruding in a direction in which each of the baskets is to be expanded; and
an operator formed to surround the plurality of baskets at the end of the base tube and being slidable in a longitudinal direction of the base tube, wherein
the base tube further comprises:
a sliding hole not communicating with the channel and formed to be recessed from the end of the base tube,
the operator comprises:
an annular member provided in an edge portion of the end of the base tube and configured to surround the plurality of baskets; and
an inserter connected to the annular member to be slidably inserted in the longitudinal direction of the base tube into the sliding hole, and configured to slide forwards and backwards from the base tube, and
each of the baskets comprises a fixer fixed to an edge portion of a surface of the end of the base tube;
wherein the sliding hole is provided as a plurality of sliding holes at points separate from each other at regular intervals in a radial direction from the end of the base tube, and
the inserter is provided as a plurality of inserters at points separate from each other at regular intervals in a radial direction from the annular member such that the inserters are to be inserted into the sliding holes, respectively.