Trocar assembly tip protector

1. A packaging device for a trocar assembly, comprising:

a trocar sleeve having a trocar sleeve tip; a trocar obturator having a trocar obturator tip; a housing member including a first sleeve adapted for selective frictional retention of a trocar assembly component relative to the housing member and a second sleeve adapted for selective frictional retention of a trocar assembly component relative to the housing member;

the first sleeve including an inlet opening at a first end thereof and a closed second end defining a shield member positioned about a tip of a trocar assembly component positioned therein;

the second sleeve including an inlet opening at a first end thereof and a closed second end defining a shield member positioned about a tip of a trocar assembly component positioned therein, the second end of the second sleeve includes an obliquely angled surface relative to a longitudinal axis of the second sleeve shaped and dimensioned to mate with a tip of a trocar assembly component;

wherein the first sleeve includes an opening between the first end and the second end and the second sleeve includes an opening between the first end and the second end, and wherein the first sleeve and the second sleeve are sufficiently compliant permitting diametric expansion on the order of approximately 2 to 3 mm.

2. The packaging device according to claim 1 , wherein the second end of the first sleeve includes an obliquely angled surface relative to a longitudinal axis of the first sleeve shaped and dimensioned to mate with a tip of a trocar assembly component.

3. A trocar assembly including a packaging device, comprising:

a trocar sleeve having a trocar sleeve tip;

a trocar obturator having a trocar obturator tip;

a housing member including a first sleeve adapted for selective retention of the trocar obturator along a first longitudinal axis and a second sleeve adapted for selective retention of the trocar sleeve along a second longitudinal axis;

the first sleeve and the second sleeve respectively including closed second ends defining shield members protecting the trocar obturator tip and the trocar sleeve tip, the shield members lying in a shield longitudinal axis which is substantially perpendicular to the first and second longitudinal axes and the trocar obturator tip and the trocar sleeve tip are respectively positioned adjacent the shield members;

wherein the first sleeve includes an opening between the first end and the second end and the second sleeve includes an opening between the first end and the second end, and wherein the first sleeve and the second sleeve are sufficiently compliant permitting diametric expansion on the order of approximately 2 to 3 mm.

4. The trocar assembly according to claim 3 , wherein the entire housing member is composed of an elastomer.

5. The trocar assembly according to claim 3 , wherein the first sleeve and second sleeve respectively include inlet openings adjacent their first ends, and each of the inlet openings includes a lip shaped and dimensioned to frictionally engage a trocar assembly component positioned therein.

6. The trocar assembly according to claim 5 , wherein the lips are compliant.

7. The trocar assembly according to claim 5 , wherein a bridging member connects the first sleeve to the second sleeve such that the first and second longitudinal axes being substantially parallel.

8. The trocar assembly according to claim 3 , wherein the second end of the second sleeve includes an obliquely angled surface relative to the second longitudinal axis shaped and dimensioned to mate with a tip of the trocar sleeve.

9. The trocar assembly according to claim 8 , wherein the second end of the first sleeve includes an obliquely angled surface relative to the first longitudinal axis shaped and dimensioned to mate with a tip of the trocar obturator.