US 11,805,993 B2
Vaginal speculum
Sasja Anne Huib Spiertz, Sittard (NL)
Assigned to COMFORTPAT B.V., Huissen (NL)
Appl. No. 16/347,834
Filed by ComfortPat B.V., Huissen (NL)
PCT Filed Nov. 7, 2017, PCT No. PCT/EP2017/078434
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 7, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/083330, PCT Pub. Date May 11, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2017733 (NL), filed on Nov. 7, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2019/0254512 A1, Aug. 22, 2019
Int. Cl. A61B 1/303 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/32 (2006.01); A61B 1/04 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 1/303 (2013.01) [A61B 1/00096 (2013.01); A61B 1/00101 (2013.01); A61B 1/00103 (2013.01); A61B 1/00105 (2013.01); A61B 1/32 (2013.01); A61B 1/0014 (2013.01); A61B 1/00163 (2013.01); A61B 1/04 (2013.01); A61B 1/06 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An assembly of a vaginal speculum and a reusable electric device,
wherein the vaginal speculum is arranged to be introduced into a vagina, the vaginal speculum comprising a speculum housing and at least one spoon blade for providing opened and closed states of the vaginal speculum, the vaginal speculum having a proximal end and a distal end, the speculum housing having a longitudinal direction, the housing arranged to allow viewing in the longitudinal direction towards the distal end, wherein a speculum housing part extends in the longitudinal direction,
wherein the vaginal speculum has an operating device slidably mounted in the speculum housing for operating the at least one spoon blade from the closed state to the opened state by sliding within the housing generally along the longitudinal direction,
wherein the reusable electric device has functional modules including at least a camera and a wireless communication module, and comprises an electric device housing with an aperture, and a circuitry received in the electric device housing, wherein a battery and the functional modules are received in the electric device housing, including at least the camera near a distal end of the electric device housing and the wireless communication module near a proximal end of the electric device housing,
wherein the vaginal speculum and the reusable electric device have a connection system for releasably connecting the reusable electric device to the vaginal speculum, the connection system having an insert direction for inserting the reusable electric device, the insert direction extending from the proximal end of the vaginal speculum to the distal end of the vaginal speculum and the connection system arranged to position the reusable electric device in the vaginal speculum housing along said speculum housing part, wherein the connection system is at least partially formed on the operating device.