US 12,109,081 B2
Medical device inspection scope
Scott Allen Sundet, Edina, MN (US); Cindy Trosen Sundet, Edina, MN (US); Randal Alan Gatzke, Minneapolis, MN (US); and Mark Brown, Minneapolis, MN (US)
Assigned to Clarus Medical, LLC, Minneapolis, MN (US)
Filed by CLARUS MEDICAL, LLC, Minneapolis, MN (US)
Filed on Mar. 12, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/351,106.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/643,856, filed on Mar. 16, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2019/0282327 A1, Sep. 19, 2019
Int. Cl. A61B 90/70 (2016.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01); A61B 1/07 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61L 2/10 (2006.01); A61L 2/28 (2006.01); A61M 25/00 (2006.01); F21V 33/00 (2006.01); A61B 90/30 (2016.01); F21W 131/20 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 90/70 (2016.02) [A61B 1/0661 (2013.01); A61B 1/07 (2013.01); A61B 90/361 (2016.02); A61L 2/10 (2013.01); A61L 2/28 (2013.01); F21V 33/0068 (2013.01); A61B 2090/306 (2016.02); A61B 2090/373 (2016.02); A61B 2090/701 (2016.02); A61B 2090/702 (2016.02); A61L 2202/11 (2013.01); A61L 2202/14 (2013.01); A61L 2202/24 (2013.01); A61M 2025/0019 (2013.01); A61M 2209/02 (2013.01); F21W 2131/20 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cleaning and inspection scope for cleaning and inspecting of a medical device, the cleaning and inspection scope comprising:
a cylindrical outer layer having a diameter of less than 2 millimeters;
a single inner lumen disposed inside of the cylindrical outer layer, said inner lumen being the sole lumen within the cleaning and inspection scope;
a camera module disposed in the inner lumen at a distal end of the cleaning and inspection scope, wherein the camera module is positioned entirely within the single inner lumen at the distal end of the cleaning and inspection scope;
an illuminating light source;
a disinfecting light source;
multiple light transmitting fibers disposed in the inner lumen between the camera module and the outer layer, wherein the multiple light transmitting fibers are optically coupled to the illuminating light source and to the disinfecting light source to emit illuminating light for illuminating a field of view of the cleaning and inspection scope and ultraviolet light for disinfection of an inside of the medical device; and
a stiffening member in the inner lumen for providing added stiffness to the cleaning and inspection scope.