TWO-WAY FLUIDICS VALVE FOR BRONCHOSCOPY

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Inventor(s)

Daniel Joseph Faulkner of Framingham MA (US)

Richard Paul Mansfield of Sterling MA (US)

TWO-WAY FLUIDICS VALVE FOR BRONCHOSCOPY

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250009206 titled 'TWO-WAY FLUIDICS VALVE FOR BRONCHOSCOPY

Original Abstract Submitted

devices, systems, and methods for a two-way valve assembly for a medical device. the two-way valve assembly has a knob seated within a valve body, two inlet passages leading to a suction source and a gas source, an outlet passage leading to an endoscope fluid channel, and an internal channel connecting one of the two inlet passages to the outlet passage. a spring presses the knob into the valve body to seal the openings along the channels and passages. rotating the knob slides one or more guide pins on the knob along one or more guide grooves on the body and connects the other inlet passage to the outlet passage, such that the same endoscope fluid channel can be used both for suction, as in clearing fluid from within a patient, and delivering gas, as in insufflation.