IP Library Granted Patent US 9,289,233
Granted Patent B2
US 9,289,233 · App. 12/577,189 · Granted Mar 22, 2016

Low-profile surgical access devices with anchoring

Inventors: Ralph Stearns (Bozrah, CT); Kurt Azarbarzin (Fairfield, CT); James R. Parys (Cheshire, CT)
Assignee: SurgiQuest, Inc.
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,289,233
App. No.
12/577,189
Filed
Oct 11, 2009
Granted
Mar 22, 2016
Kind
B2
Art Unit
3733
USPC
600/202
Abstract

A surgical access device includes a proximal housing having proximal and distal end portions, the distal end portion of the housing being configured and adapted to engage a proximal portion of a flexible wound retractor. The proximal housing can be provided with a plenum chamber being defined therein, the plenum chamber being in fluid communication with at least one nozzle. The nozzle is preferably configured to direct pressurized fluid in an axial direction from the plenum chamber into a central bore of the surgical access device to provide a constant gaseous seal around a surgical instrument inserted therethrough, while inhibiting a loss of pressurized fluid from the body cavity therethrough. The plenum chamber can be adapted and configured to receive pressurized fluid and conduct the pressurized fluid to the at least one nozzle.

Claims (1)

1. A surgical access device comprising a proximal housing having proximal and distal end portions, the distal end portion of the housing being configured and adapted to engage a proximal portion of a flexible wound retractor, the proximal housing having a plenum chamber being defined in the proximal housing, the plenum chamber being in fluid communication with at least one nozzle, configured to direct pressurized fluid in an axial direction from the plenum chamber into a central bore of the surgical access device to provide a constant gaseous seal around a surgical instrument inserted therethrough, while inhibiting a loss of pressurized fluid from the body cavity therethrough, and wherein the plenum chamber is adapted and configured to receive pressurized fluid and conduct the pressurized fluid to the at least one nozzle and wherein the distal end portion of the housing and proximal portion of the flexible wound retractor are adapted and configured to detachably engage with one another.

Assignments (3)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jul 21, 2025
From: CONMED CORPORATION; BIOREZ, INC.; BUFFALO FILTER LLC; IN2BONES USA, LLC; LINVATEC CORPORATION; SURGIQUEST, INC.; VIKING SYSTEMS, INC.
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Reel/Frame 072097/0762 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jan 5, 2016
From: SURGIQUEST, INC.
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Reel/Frame 037440/0364 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 23, 2010
From: STEARNS, RALPH; AZARBARZIN, KURT; PARYS, JAMES R.
To: SURGIQUEST, INC.
Reel/Frame 024129/0185 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation PCTUS2009060299 · Oct 10, 2009
Provisional Application 61104475 · Oct 10, 2008
Related Publication 20100185057A1 · Jul 22, 2010