Surgical waste collection assembly with a manifold receiver and a manifold with complementary features that faciliate the alignment of the manifold with the manifold receiver

US9579428B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Stryker Corporation · US

Inventors

• Stephen J. Reasoner · Kalamazoo, US
• David Hershberger · Kalamazoo, US
• Brent S. Lalomia · Portage, US
• Stephen Isham · Mattawan, US
• Sean A. Murray · Portage, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 26, 2016
• Grant date: Feb 28, 2017
• Expiry date: Oct 26, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T137/87965
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A surgical waste collection unit with a receiver for removably holding a manifold to which suction lines are connected. The receiver is mounted to the waste collection unit to be at an acute angle relative to the horizontal. The receiver is further configured to allow the manifold to be rotated in the receiver. This means the manifold can be rotated from a first position in which the manifold outlet opening is aligned with the conduit through which waste is flowed from the receiver and a second position in which the manifold outlet opening is elevated relative to the first position.