US 12,440,226 B2
Medical device and cooling-fluid/rinsing-fluid hose
Roland-Alois Hoegerle, Tuttlingen (DE); André Buerk, Villingen-Schwenningen (DE); Uwe Schaz, Neuhausen (DE); Martin Machill, Rietheim-Weilheim (DE); Simone Hermle, VS-Villingen (DE); and Saul Dufoo Ochoa, Tuttlingen (DE)
Assigned to Aesculap AG, Tuttlingen (DE)
Appl. No. 17/920,685
Filed by Aesculap AG, Tuttlingen (DE)
PCT Filed Apr. 21, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/060333
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 21, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/214112, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 28, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 111 149.5 (DE), filed on Apr. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0218307 A1, Jul. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 17/16 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/1644 (2013.01) [A61B 17/1622 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00477 (2013.01); A61B 2017/1651 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medical device comprising:
a handpiece comprising a handpiece housing that encloses an interior of the handpiece;
an effector arranged on or coupleable to the handpiece; and
a supply device for cooling and/or rinsing fluid to the effector,
the supply device for cooling and/or rinsing fluid comprising a guide tube or guide cannula, at least a portion of which passes through the interior in a longitudinal direction of the handpiece,
the guide tube or guide cannula fixedly connected to the handpiece and extending in the interior of the handpiece housing continuously from a proximal handpiece region to a distal handpiece region,
the guide tube or guide cannula opening outwardly in the distal handpiece region and in the proximal handpiece region, and
the guide tube or guide cannula being configured to longitudinally guide a cooling-fluid/rinsing-fluid hose as the cooling-fluid/rinsing-fluid hose is inserted into the guide tube or guide cannula.