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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2011
Applicants:
Cormac O'prey, Bishops Stortford, GB;
Charlotte Adele Clark, Cambridge, GB;
Alistair Ian Fleming, Cambridge, GB;
Inventors:
Cormac O'Prey, Bishops Stortford, GB;
Charlotte Adele Clark, Cambridge, GB;
Alistair Ian Fleming, Cambridge, GB;
Assignee:
Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/12 (2006.01); A61B 1/04 (2006.01); A61B 1/313 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/126 (2013.01); A61B 1/0014 (2013.01); A61B 1/00087 (2013.01); A61B 1/00091 (2013.01); A61B 1/00101 (2013.01); A61B 1/00135 (2013.01); A61B 1/3132 (2013.01);
Abstract
A minimally invasive surgical instrument including a viewing instrument and a wiper mechanism configured and adapted to clean a lens of the viewing instrument. The wiper mechanism includes a wiper that is configured and adapted to contact and translate across a surface of the lens. An actuator moves the wiper across the lens to clean the lens.