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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2011
Cormac O'prey, Bishops Stortford, GB;
Simon Roderick Grover, Cambridge, GB;
Charlotte Adele Clark, Cambridge, GB;
Valerie Anne Scott, Cambridge, GB;
Cormac O'Prey, Bishops Stortford, GB;
Simon Roderick Grover, Cambridge, GB;
Charlotte Adele Clark, Cambridge, GB;
Valerie Anne Scott, Cambridge, GB;
Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US);
Abstract
A surgical access assembly includes a body having first and second side panels opposing one another and first and second end panels interconnecting the side panels. The first and second end panels are moveable between a folded position and an expanded position to correspondingly move the first and second side panels with respect to one another between an approximated position and a spaced apart position. In the spaced apart position, the first and second side panels are flexed outwardly and apart from one another to define a passageway therebetween. A flexible membrane is coupled to the first and second side panels and extends proximally therefrom.