Esmeralda Ochoa;The Regents of the University of California
发明人:
Shanglei Liu,Mohamad Ramzi Abdul Majit,Santiago Horgan,Michael Tolley,William Weston-Dawkes,Esmeralda Ochoa
申请号：
US16624844
公开号：
US20200245995A1
申请日:
2018.06.22
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2020
代理人:
摘要：
A retraction device, e.g., a programmable stiffness state tissue displacement device, for providing increased visibility during an operation is provided. The device includes one or more strips of compliant jammable layer components connected in parallel, and encapsulated within a flexible envelope such that each of the one or more strips of compliant jammable layer components are pneumatically connected. The device further includes a negative pressure pump coupled to the flexible envelope, such that the application of negative pressure to the flexible envelope by the negative pressure pump causes the one or more strips of compliant jammable layer components to jam and thereby transition the retraction device from a malleable state to a rigid state.
