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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2013
Applicant:
Nascent Surgical, Llc, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Inventor:
Leonard S. Schultz, Bloomington, MN (US);
Assignee:
NASCENT SURGICAL, LLC, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 1/00 (2006.01); F01N 1/08 (2006.01); A61B 46/23 (2016.01); A61B 46/00 (2016.01); A61B 46/20 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 1/00 (2013.01); A61B 46/00 (2016.02); A61B 46/23 (2016.02); A61M 1/0039 (2013.01); A61B 2046/205 (2016.02); A61B 2046/236 (2016.02); A61M 1/0088 (2013.01); F04C 2270/041 (2013.01);
Abstract
A smoke evacuator and evacuation system for removing gaseous and/or particulate byproducts of surgical procedures and noxious vapors from chemicals is provided and includes an end effector or vacuum head positionable at a surgical site, the end effector including a plenum, a plenum support for preventing the plenum from collapsing, and an adaptor for coupling the end effector or vacuum head to a vacuum source.