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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
May. 08, 2012
Sharad H. Joshi, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Jean-luc Boulnois, Boston, MA (US);
Chris A. Devlin, Wakefield, MA (US);
Peter Aliski, Malden, MA (US);
Russ Laroche, Salem, NH (US);
Chris Sullivan, Grafton, MA (US);
Sharad H. Joshi, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Jean-Luc Boulnois, Boston, MA (US);
Chris A. Devlin, Wakefield, MA (US);
Peter Aliski, Malden, MA (US);
Russ LaRoche, Salem, NH (US);
Chris Sullivan, Grafton, MA (US);
MICROLINE SURGICAL, INC., Beverly, MA (US);
Abstract
A connector for connecting an instrument tip with a laparoscopic tube end, the connector including a base forming a body of the connector, the base having a lumen configured to accommodate an instrument tip actuator therein, and a seal permanently bonded to an inner surface of a proximal end of the base and configured to deform upon connection of the connector with the tube end.