Patents Assigned to Smart Medical System, Ltd.
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Patent number: 11247029Abstract: An endoscopy system including a balloon-equipped endoscope including a balloon which is configured for slidable frictional engagement with an interior wall of a body passageway and axial stretching of the interior wall when inflated to a slidable frictional engagement pressure and displaced axially along the body passageway and a balloon inflation subsystem operative to selectably inflate the balloon to the slidable frictional engagement pressure.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: SMART Medical Systems Ltd.Inventors: Gad Terliuc, Gilad Luria
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Patent number: 11160445Abstract: A reprocessing system for balloon endoscopes including an endoscope reprocessing system including cleaning functionality and disinfection functionality, and a leak testing device including inflation and deflation functionality, the inflation and deflation functionality being operative to selectably inflate and deflate a balloon of a balloon endoscope.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: SMART MEDICAL SYSTEMS LTD.Inventors: Gilad Luria, Sagi Peled, Gad Terliuc
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Patent number: 10850077Abstract: A user-operable controlled furling balloon assembly including a furlable balloon sheath, an elongate furling driving element which is retractable and rotatable about an elongate axis thereof relative to a base element for furling the furlable balloon sheath about the elongate axis, the furlable balloon sheath surrounding the elongate furling driving element and coupled at a first end thereof to the elongate furling driving element and at a second end thereof to the base element and a furling/retraction controlling assembly coupled to the elongate furling driving element and to the base element for limiting an extent of retraction of the elongate furling driving element to be a function of an extent of furling of the balloon sheath, thereby limiting a maximum outer diameter of the balloon sheath when furled and preventing stacking of the balloon sheath.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: SMART MEDICAL SYSTEMS LTD.Inventors: Gad Terliuc, Gilad Luria
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Patent number: 10835107Abstract: An endoscope system including an endoscope including an endoscope electro-pneumatic connection assembly having a leak test port, an endoscope electro-optic subsystem which is connectable to the endoscope via the endoscope electro-pneumatic connection assembly in a manner which precludes access to the leak test port when the endoscope electro-optic subsystem and the endoscope are connected at the electro-pneumatic connection assembly and an electro-pneumatic adaptor, which is connectable to the endoscope at the electro-pneumatic connection assembly and includes an adaptor electro-pneumatic connection assembly, including a leak test port connector for connection to the leak test port of the endoscope, an adaptor electrical port assembly to which the endoscope electro-optic subsystem is connectable and a pneumatic port.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: SMART MEDICAL SYSTEMS LTD.Inventors: Gad Terliuc, Gilad Luria, Amnon Potash
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Patent number: 10610086Abstract: A balloon endoscope including an endoscope body having a selectably pressurizable interior volume, which generally fills the interior of the endoscope body and a selectably inflatable balloon located on an outer surface of the endoscope body and defining a balloon volume which communicates with the interior volume for selectable inflation of the balloon by selectable pressurization of the interior volume.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: SMART Medical Systems Ltd.Inventors: Gad Terliuc, Gilad Luria
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Patent number: 10537717Abstract: A balloon catheter assembly including an elongate catheter tube including a lumen having a first cross sectional area, a wire extending through the lumen, and an inflatable balloon mountably associated with the tube and the wire, the tube being formed with a plurality of balloon inflation apertures communicating with the lumen, the apertures having a total aperture cross sectional area which exceeds the first cross sectional area and including at least two apertures being arranged at different azimuthal locations along the tube underlying the balloon and the balloon being characterized by an inflated state having a ratio of maximum inflated diameter to length of more than 0.4 and a corresponding deflated state wherein at least a first portion of the balloon is capable of being twisted relative to at least a second portion thereof, resulting in at least partial blockage of at least one but not all of the apertures.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2013Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: SMART MEDICAL SYSTEMS LTDInventors: Gad Terliuc, Gilad Luria
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Patent number: 10456564Abstract: An endoscopy system including a balloon-equipped endoscope including a balloon which is configured for slidable frictional engagement with an interior wall of a body passageway and axial stretching of the interior wall when inflated to a slidable frictional engagement pressure and displaced axially along the body passageway and a balloon inflation subsystem operative to selectably inflate the balloon to the slidable frictional engagement pressure.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2012Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: SMART MEDICAL SYSTEMS LTD.Inventors: Gad Terliuc, Gilad Luria
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Patent number: 10398295Abstract: A reprocessing method for balloon endoscopes, the method including introducing a balloon endoscope to be reprocessed into an endoscope reprocessing system, performing reprocessing on the balloon endoscope to be reprocessed while a balloon of the balloon endoscope is deflated, thereafter inflating the balloon of the balloon endoscope, thereafter deflating the balloon of the balloon endoscope and thereafter performing further reprocessing on the balloon endoscope to be reprocessed while the balloon of the balloon endoscope is deflated.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2015Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: SMART MEDICAL SYSTEMS LTD.Inventors: Gilad Luria, Sagi Peled, Gad Terliuc
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Patent number: 10314471Abstract: A method for reprocessing a balloon endoscope, the method including the steps of deflating a balloon of a balloon endoscope to a negative pressure state following clinical use thereof and thereafter maintaining the interior of the balloon in a negative pressure state during at least part of reprocessing the balloon endoscope.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2014Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: SMART Medical Systems Ltd.Inventors: Gad Terliuc, Gilad Luria, Erez Hochman
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Patent number: 10264951Abstract: An assembly including an endoscope having an external surface, an auxiliary endoscope assembly having a resilient collar portion mounted onto the endoscope and a hand-held collar cutting tool for removal of the auxiliary endoscope assembly having a resilient collar portion from the endoscope, the cutting tool including a hand-held collar cutting tool body portion, a cutting edge associated with the cutting tool body portion and adapted for cutting the resilient collar portion and a spacer portion protruding from the hand-held collar cutting tool body portion, the spacer portion being adapted for insertion between the resilient collar portion and the endoscope for spacing the endoscope from the resilient collar portion and from the cutting edge, the spacer portion being softer than the external surface of the endoscope.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2015Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: SMART MEDICAL SYSTEMS LTD.Inventors: Gad Terliuc, Gilad Luria, Ori Nissan
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Patent number: 10052014Abstract: A balloon endoscope including an endoscope body having a selectably pressurizable interior volume, which generally fills the interior of the endoscope body and a selectably inflatable balloon located on an outer surface of the endoscope body and defining a balloon volume which communicates with the interior volume for selectable inflation of the balloon by selectable pressurization of the interior volume.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2011Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: SMART Medical Systems Ltd.Inventors: Gad Terliuc, Gilad Luria
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Patent number: 9661994Abstract: An enhanced flexibility auxiliary endoscope assembly for use with an endoscope, the assembly including at least one flexible elongate element and a flexible sleeve having a first lumen for accommodating a distal portion of an endoscope capable of assuming at least a first curvature and a second lumen for accommodating the at least one flexible elongate element, the second lumen being configured to allow the at least one flexible elongate element to assume the at least first curvature as well as at least a second curvature about the first curvature, thereby to enhance flexibility of the auxiliary endoscope assembly.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2013Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: SMART MEDICAL SYSTEMS LTD.Inventors: Gad Terliuc, Gilad Luria, Ohad Shafran
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Patent number: 9596979Abstract: an endoscope system including an endoscope having an instrument channel and an anchoring assembly including an inflatable/deflatable balloon assembly, the inflatable/deflatable balloon assembly being deflatable to a cross-sectional size sufficiently small to enable it to pass through the instrument channel and being positionable and inflatable without substantial stretching to have a dimension sufficiently large to enable it to anchor in the large intestine.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2010Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: SMART MEDICAL SYSTEMS LTD.Inventors: Gad Terliuc, Gilad Luria, Maxim Musheev
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Patent number: 9427142Abstract: An endoscope assembly including an endoscope, a selectably inflatable balloon mounted onto a distal portion of the endoscope and an external tube extending alongside the endoscope and traversing the selectably inflatable balloon.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2005Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Smart Medical Systems LtdInventor: Gad Terliuc
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Publication number: 20150273191Abstract: A balloon catheter assembly including an elongate catheter tube including a lumen having a first cross sectional area, a wire extending through the lumen, and an inflatable balloon mountably associated with the tube and the wire, the tube being formed with a plurality of balloon inflation apertures communicating with the lumen, the apertures having a total aperture cross sectional area which exceeds the first cross sectional area and including at least two apertures being arranged at different azimuthal locations along the tube underlying the balloon and the balloon being characterized by an inflated state having a ratio of maximum inflated diameter to length of more than 0.4 and a corresponding deflated state wherein at least a first portion of the balloon is capable of being twisted relative to at least a second portion thereof, resulting in at least partial blockage of at least one but not all of the apertures.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2013Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: SMART MEDICAL SYSTEMS LTDInventors: Gsd Terliuc, Gilad Luria
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Patent number: 9119532Abstract: An expander for mounting a resilient outer tubular article over an elongate article including a chassis element having associated therewith at least one outwardly movable element which is selectably engageable with at least a portion of the resilient outer tubular article, a driver which is movable with respect to the chassis element and is operative to selectably engage the at least one outwardly movable element, when the outwardly movable element is in engagement with the at least a portion of the resilient outer tubular article, for producing corresponding outward motion and outward expansion thereof and an engagement element, associated with the driver, for insertion into the at least a portion of the resilient outer tubular article upon expansion thereof by operation of the driver, the engagement element being configured to accommodate at least a portion of the elongate article.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2009Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: SMART MEDICAL SYSTEMS LTD.Inventors: Gad Terliuc, Gilad Luria, Ori Nissan
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Publication number: 20140235941Abstract: An endoscope system having an endoscope, an external tube associated with said endoscope and extending alongside said endoscope, an endoscope tool extending through said external tube and having formed along at least part of an elongate surface thereof a hydrophilic coating; and a liquid communication port associated with said external tube for providing liquid communication with the interior of said external tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: SMART MEDICAL SYSTEMS LTD.Inventors: GAD TERLIUC, GILAD LURIA, OHAD SHAFRAN
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Patent number: 8727970Abstract: A catheter including a tube having at least one lumen, at least one elongate element, the at least one elongate element having a bendable portion at a predetermined bendable portion location therealong forward of a distal end of the tube and at least one selectably inflatable balloon communicating with at least one of the at least one lumen, the at least one selectably inflatable balloon having a forward end and a rearward end, the rearward end of the balloon being located rearwardly of the predetermined bendable portion location.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2012Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: SMART Medical Systems Ltd.Inventors: Gad Terliuc, Gilad Luria, Ohad Shafran
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Publication number: 20140088362Abstract: An endoscopy system including a balloon-equipped endoscope including a balloon which is configured for slidable frictional engagement with an interior wall of a body passageway and axial stretching of the interior wall when inflated to a slidable frictional engagement pressure and displaced axially along the body passageway and a balloon inflation subsystem operative to selectably inflate the balloon to the slidable frictional engagement pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2012Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: Smart Medical Systems LTDInventors: Gad Terliuc, Gilad Luria
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Publication number: 20140066714Abstract: Preparing an endoscope insertion assembly for performing endoscopy by providing the endoscope insertion assembly including an endoscope insertion tube operative for passage through a body cavity, and an optical assembly operative for inspection of said body cavity, and selectably inserting the optical assembly within said endoscope insertion tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: Smart Medical Systems Ltd.Inventor: GAD TERLIUC