US 12,408,903 B2
Ergonomic multi-part quick release disposable base for medical instruments
Michael J. Milella, Jr., Thousand Oaks, CA (US); and Sarah Elizabeth Schaake, Centennial, CO (US)
Assigned to ECA Medical Instruments, Thousand Oaks, CA (US)
Appl. No. 16/968,569
Filed by ECA Medical Instruments, Inc., Newbury Park, CA (US)
PCT Filed Feb. 9, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/017388
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 8, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/157403, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 15, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/628,888, filed on Feb. 9, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0038206 A1, Feb. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/00 (2006.01); B25G 3/18 (2006.01); B25G 3/20 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/00 (2013.01) [B25G 3/18 (2013.01); B25G 3/20 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0023 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00424 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ergonomic quick release system comprising:
a plastic molded handle with a front half section and a back half section
the front section comprising:
a face end with an interface comprising:
a shaft guide collinear with the interface configured to accept a shaft; and
a fixing guide distal to said shaft guide and having a flat section connected to and raised above said shaft guide, wherein said fixing guide has a smaller inner diameter relative to said shaft guide;
a beak guide with an open top and an open bottom generally perpendicular to the shaft guide and intersecting the interface;
said shaft having a distal end having a flat section configured to mate with said flat section on said fixing guide and having a mounting fixture;
a plastic movable latch with a tab lock formed therein; and
a flexible integrally molded plastic region extending from an actuation surface of the front section forming a hinge;
wherein the hinge terminates in a body tab which is configured to be fixed in the tab lock,
wherein the plastic movable latch has a first side, a second side and a middle region;
wherein the first side faces the actuation surface and a beak extends therefrom; wherein the beak forms a latch cooperating with the mounting fixture; and
wherein pressing on the movable latch lifts the beak out of the mounting fixture.