Optical: systems and elements – Protection from moisture or foreign particle – Microscope drape
Patent
1998-03-13
2000-09-12
Shafer, Ricky D.
Optical: systems and elements
Protection from moisture or foreign particle
Microscope drape
359511, 359513, 359900, 2063161, 600121, 600124, G03B 1104, B65D 8538
Patent
active
06116741&
ABSTRACT:
For use with a surgical microscope having an objective lens barrel protruding therefrom, drapes, methods of draping the microscope and methods of manufacturing the drapes. In one embodiment, a drape includes: (1) a sheet, having a sheet aperture therethrough, that covers at least a portion of the surgical microscope, (2) a rigid, planar seal mount, coupled to the sheet and having a mount aperture therethrough that aligns with the sheet aperture and (3) an elastomeric sheet seal, coupled to the planar seal mount and having a dilatable seal aperture therethrough that has a constricted diameter less than the mount aperture, aligns with the mount aperture, expands to receive the objective lens barrel therethrough and elastically constricts about the objective lens barrel.
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DEKA Medical, Incorporated
Shafer Ricky D.
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