Kevin W. Smith,Derek Dee Deville,Korey Kline,Thomas O. Bales, JR.,Matthew A. Palmer,Carlos Rivera
申请号：
US15808489
公开号：
US20180064311A1
申请日:
2017.11.09
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2018
代理人:
摘要：
A variably-flexible, locking insertion device includes a hollow body having a proximal end with an entrance for receiving an instrument, a distal end with a tip for protrusion of the instrument, and a handle to be gripped by an operator. A device transitions the hollow body between a relatively flexible condition and a relatively stiff condition. Tendons are disposed within the hollow body for maintaining the hollow body in the relatively flexible and relatively stiff conditions, the tendons being neither in tension nor compression when the hollow body is in the relatively stiff condition.
