Smart Medical Systems Ltd.

Scenera Technologies, LLC

Gilad Luria

Gad Terliuc

Ohad Shafran

Ori Nissan

Efraim Miklatzky

Gadi Terliuc

Sagi Peled

Erez Hochman

Amnon Potash

Maxim Musheev

An imaging device comprising a detector assembly having sensor elements configured to measure intensity of light/radiation thereby received and generate measurement data/signals indicative thereof, an aperture assembly having at least two partial apertures configured to divide light/radiation received from an object into at least two components having different polarization orientations, a polarizer arrangement located between the detector assembly and the aperture assembly, wherein the polarizer arrangement is configured to affect at least two different polarization orientations to light passing therethrough onto at least two sensor elements of the detector assembly, and a processor unit configured to process the measurement data/signals from the at least two sensor elements, and determine based thereon a distance of the object from the imaging device.

Imaging system and method

An endoscopy system including a balloon-equipped endoscope including a balloon which is configured for slidable frictional engagement with an interior wall of a body passageway and axial stretching of the interior wall when inflated to a slidable frictional engagement pressure and displaced axially along the body passageway and a balloon inflation subsystem operative to selectably inflate the balloon to the slidable frictional engagement pressure.

Balloon-equipped endoscopic devices and methods thereof

A reprocessing system for balloon endoscopes including an endoscope reprocessing system including cleaning functionality and disinfection functionality, and a leak testing device including inflation and deflation functionality, the inflation and deflation functionality being operative to selectably inflate and deflate a balloon of a balloon endoscope.

Balloon endoscope reprocessing system and method

A user-operable controlled furling balloon assembly including a furlable balloon sheath, an elongate furling driving element which is retractable and rotatable about an elongate axis thereof relative to a base element for furling the furlable balloon sheath about the elongate axis, the furlable balloon sheath surrounding the elongate furling driving element and coupled at a first end thereof to the elongate furling driving element and at a second end thereof to the base element and a furling/retraction controlling assembly coupled to the elongate furling driving element and to the base element for limiting an extent of retraction of the elongate furling driving element to be a function of an extent of furling of the balloon sheath, thereby limiting a maximum outer diameter of the balloon sheath when furled and preventing stacking of the balloon sheath.

Controlled furling balloon assembly

An endoscope system including an endoscope including an endoscope electro-pneumatic connection assembly having a leak test port, an endoscope electro-optic subsystem which is connectable to the endoscope via the endoscope electro-pneumatic connection assembly in a manner which precludes access to the leak test port when the endoscope electro-optic subsystem and the endoscope are connected at the electro-pneumatic connection assembly and an electro-pneumatic adaptor, which is connectable to the endoscope at the electro-pneumatic connection assembly and includes an adaptor electro-pneumatic connection assembly, including a leak test port connector for connection to the leak test port of the endoscope, an adaptor electrical port assembly to which the endoscope electro-optic subsystem is connectable and a pneumatic port.

Endoscope electro-pneumatic adaptor

A balloon endoscope including an endoscope body having a selectably pressurizable interior volume, which generally fills the interior of the endoscope body and a selectably inflatable balloon located on an outer surface of the endoscope body and defining a balloon volume which communicates with the interior volume for selectable inflation of the balloon by selectable pressurization of the interior volume.

Balloon endoscope and methods of manufacture and use thereof

A balloon catheter assembly including an elongate catheter tube including a lumen having a first cross sectional area, a wire extending through the lumen, and an inflatable balloon mountably associated with the tube and the wire, the tube being formed with a plurality of balloon inflation apertures communicating with the lumen, the apertures having a total aperture cross sectional area which exceeds the first cross sectional area and including at least two apertures being arranged at different azimuthal locations along the tube underlying the balloon and the balloon being characterized by an inflated state having a ratio of maximum inflated diameter to length of more than 0.4 and a corresponding deflated state wherein at least a first portion of the balloon is capable of being twisted relative to at least a second portion thereof, resulting in at least partial blockage of at least one but not all of the apertures.

Endoscopy devices and applications thereof

A reprocessing method for balloon endoscopes, the method including introducing a balloon endoscope to be reprocessed into an endoscope reprocessing system, performing reprocessing on the balloon endoscope to be reprocessed while a balloon of the balloon endoscope is deflated, thereafter inflating the balloon of the balloon endoscope, thereafter deflating the balloon of the balloon endoscope and thereafter performing further reprocessing on the balloon endoscope to be reprocessed while the balloon of the balloon endoscope is deflated.

A method for reprocessing a balloon endoscope, the method including the steps of deflating a balloon of a balloon endoscope to a negative pressure state following clinical use thereof and thereafter maintaining the interior of the balloon in a negative pressure state during at least part of reprocessing the balloon endoscope.

Endoscope reprocessing method

An assembly including an endoscope having an external surface, an auxiliary endoscope assembly having a resilient collar portion mounted onto the endoscope and a hand-held collar cutting tool for removal of the auxiliary endoscope assembly having a resilient collar portion from the endoscope, the cutting tool including a hand-held collar cutting tool body portion, a cutting edge associated with the cutting tool body portion and adapted for cutting the resilient collar portion and a spacer portion protruding from the hand-held collar cutting tool body portion, the spacer portion being adapted for insertion between the resilient collar portion and the endoscope for spacing the endoscope from the resilient collar portion and from the cutting edge, the spacer portion being softer than the external surface of the endoscope.

Assemblies for use with an endoscope

An enhanced flexibility auxiliary endoscope assembly for use with an endoscope, the assembly including at least one flexible elongate element and a flexible sleeve having a first lumen for accommodating a distal portion of an endoscope capable of assuming at least a first curvature and a second lumen for accommodating the at least one flexible elongate element, the second lumen being configured to allow the at least one flexible elongate element to assume the at least first curvature as well as at least a second curvature about the first curvature, thereby to enhance flexibility of the auxiliary endoscope assembly.

Flexible endoscope system and functionality

an endoscope system including an endoscope having an instrument channel and an anchoring assembly including an inflatable/deflatable balloon assembly, the inflatable/deflatable balloon assembly being deflatable to a cross-sectional size sufficiently small to enable it to pass through the instrument channel and being positionable and inflatable without substantial stretching to have a dimension sufficiently large to enable it to anchor in the large intestine.

Anchoring assemblies for endoscopes

An expander for mounting a resilient outer tubular article over an elongate article including a chassis element having associated therewith at least one outwardly movable element which is selectably engageable with at least a portion of the resilient outer tubular article, a driver which is movable with respect to the chassis element and is operative to selectably engage the at least one outwardly movable element, when the outwardly movable element is in engagement with the at least a portion of the resilient outer tubular article, for producing corresponding outward motion and outward expansion thereof and an engagement element, associated with the driver, for insertion into the at least a portion of the resilient outer tubular article upon expansion thereof by operation of the driver, the engagement element being configured to accommodate at least a portion of the elongate article.

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Givataim, Israel

Gilad Luria