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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2003
Amram Aizenfeld, Kibutz Ramot Menashe, IL;
Yakov Baror, Haifa, IL;
Golan Salman, Tirat Carmel, IL;
Omer Sheziffi, Haifa, IL;
Amram Aizenfeld, Kibutz Ramot Menashe, IL;
Yakov Baror, Haifa, IL;
Golan Salman, Tirat Carmel, IL;
Omer Sheziffi, Haifa, IL;
Sightline Technologies Ltd., Haifa, IL;
Abstract
Apparatus for sheathing an endoscopic tool includes a sheathing assembly, which includes a sleeve dispenser and a port adapter for mating with a proximal port of an endoscopic working channel so as to permit the endoscopic tool to be advanced through the sheathing assembly into the working channel. A flexible sleeve in the sheathing assembly has a distal end, which is fixed to the sleeve dispenser, and a proximal end, which is adapted to engage the endoscopic tool as the endoscopic tool is retracted from the working channel, causing the sleeve to extend out of the dispenser in a proximal direction so as to sheath the endoscopic tool.