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Granted Patent B2
US 12,193,779 · App. 17/607,531 · Granted Jan 14, 2025

Camera drape

Inventors: Tsurashi Yamane (Chiba, JP); Kaori Nakagawa (Chiba, JP); Junko Ochibe (Chiba, JP)
Assignee: Meilleur Co., Ltd.
A61B46/10A61B1/00135A61B1/0014A61B1/00142A61B1/00163A61B1/04A61B2562/247
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12,193,779
App. No.
17/607,531
Granted
Jan 14, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a camera drape which enables easy replacement of a rigid endoscope during a surgical operation while suppressing deterioration in the quality of video. A camera drape comprises: a spacer that is arranged between an endoscope-side lens of a rigid endoscope and a camera-side lens of a camera head; and a drape body that is attached to the spacer and covers, among the rigid endoscope and the camera head, only the camera head. The spacer includes a clamping plate having a through hole that faces the endoscope-side lens and the camera-side lens in a state where the spacer is clamped between an eyepiece unit for supporting the endoscope-side lens and an endoscope connection unit for supporting the camera-side lens.

Claims (8)

1. A camera drape that covers a camera head to and from which a rigid endoscope is attached and detached, comprising:

a spacer that is arranged between an endoscope-side lens of the rigid endoscope and a camera-side lens of the camera head; and

a drape body that is attached to the spacer and covers, among the rigid endoscope and the camera head, only the camera head, wherein the spacer includes

a clamping plate having a through hole that faces the endoscope-side lens and the camera-side lens in a state where the spacer is clamped between an eyepiece unit for supporting the endoscope-side lens and an endoscope connection unit for supporting the camera-side lens, and

a plurality of legs that protrudes outwardly from a plurality of positions spaced apart therebetween in a circumferential direction of the clamping plate, each of the plurality of legs being bent in an axial direction inward toward the camera head of the clamping plate, and each of the plurality of legs being elastically deformable.

2. The camera drape according to claim 1 , wherein when the clamping plate is clamped between the eyepiece unit and the endoscope connection unit, the plurality of legs is are elastically deformed in the direction for reducing each bending angle so as to be pressed against corner portions of a bottom wall and an inner wall of the endoscope connection unit, the endoscope connection unit having a bottomed cylindrical shape.

3. The camera drape according to claim 1 , wherein the spacer is attached to an inner surface side of the drape body which faces the camera head in a state where the camera head is covered with the drape body.

4. The camera drape according to claim 1 , wherein a lens is attached to the through hole.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 29, 2021
From: YAMANE, TSURASHI; NAKAGAWA, KAORI; OCHIBE, JUNKO
To: MEILLEUR CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 057975/0606 →
Priority Claims (1)
WO PCT/JP2021/004870 · Feb 10, 2021 · international
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220331040A1 · Oct 20, 2022
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