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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2014
Applied Medical Resources Corporation, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);
Jeremy J. Albrecht, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);
John R. Brustad, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);
Gary M. Johnson, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);
Matthew M. Becerra, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);
Eric Nguyen, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);
Applied Medical Resources Corporation, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);
Abstract
A surgical access port comprises a valve or instrument seal that separates the instrument contact function from the instrument conforming function. Embodiments of the instrument seal comprise in instrument contact element that extends through an opening in a compression element, thereby defining an instrument orifice that seals with an instrument extending therethrough. Embodiments of the instrument contact element comprise a non-distensible membrane or film, for example, as a tube or cylinder.