US 12,465,725 B2
Actuator for wire steered device
Tai Kien, Groton, MA (US); Toufic Azar, Montreal (CA); and Ahmad Hijazi, Beirut (LB)
Assigned to MEACOR, INC., Irvine, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/640,791
Filed by MEACOR, INC., Ayer, MA (US)
PCT Filed Oct. 7, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/059433
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 4, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/070092, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 15, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/912,848, filed on Oct. 9, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0331559 A1, Oct. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. A61M 25/01 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 25/0147 (2013.01) [A61B 2017/00327 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An actuating assembly for a wire steered device, the actuating assembly comprising:
an axle defining a rotation axis; and
a wheel mounted to the axle and rotatable about the rotation axis, the wheel including a wire attachment configured to control movement of a steering wire configured to move the wire steered device;
wherein the wheel is movable between a mounting configuration, where the wheel remains on the axle while being rotatable about the rotation axis independently of the axle, and an actuating configuration, where the wheel is mounted to the axle and jointly rotatable with the axle about the rotation axis,
wherein, in the mounting configuration, the wheel is configured to wind the steering wire therearound and to tension the steering wire to an operational tension.