CN111528763A

CN111528763A - Infection-preventing endoscope

Info

Publication number: CN111528763A
Application number: CN202010317001.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 蒋军红; 杨凯; 李天宝; 江磊; 刘发阳
Original assignee: Zhuhai Megaology Medical Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: ZHUHAI MEGAOLOGY MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY Co.,Ltd.; First Affiliated Hospital of Suzhou University
Priority date: 2020-04-21
Filing date: 2020-04-21
Publication date: 2020-08-14

Abstract

The invention discloses an infection-preventing endoscope, which comprises an insertion part; a handle portion provided at an upper end of the insertion portion; the protection part is in including folding cover and setting the sealing member of folding cover bottom, the folding cover is installed the upper portion of inserting portion perhaps on the handle portion, the cover can be expanded to the folding cover the inserting portion, the sealing member is used for sealing the folding cover. Through the upper portion at the inserted part or handle portion sets up folding cover, when the inserted part was taken out from the human body, down pull folding cover and make its expansion cover inserted part to the opening of sealing closure folding cover bottom, thereby keep apart inserted part and outside air, can prevent the viral propagation, prevent that the infectivity is strong, protect medical personnel not infected.

Description

Infection-preventing endoscope

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of medical equipment, in particular to an infection-preventing endoscope.

Background

Endoscope systems are indispensable devices for disease diagnosis and treatment in modern medicine. When the endoscope is used, the insertion part needs to be placed into a human body to observe images in the human body, and when some patients with infectious viruses in the human body are met, after the insertion part is pulled out of the human body, a large amount of viruses carried by the insertion part volatilize in the air to form aerosol, so that the viruses are easily dispersed in the air and are infected to medical care personnel. For example, when a focus is observed by using an endoscope for a patient with novel coronavirus pneumonia, a large amount of aerosol containing viruses is carried out after an insertion part is pulled out from a human body, and the aerosol flows and spreads in the air, so that the viruses are easily spread and infected to medical care personnel, and therefore, an endoscope which can inhibit the aerosol from spreading and has strong infectivity is urgently needed.

Disclosure of Invention

The present invention is directed to solving at least one of the problems of the prior art. Therefore, the invention provides an anti-infection endoscope which can prevent virus from spreading and has strong anti-infection performance.

An infection-preventing endoscope according to the present invention includes: an insertion portion; a handle portion provided at an upper end of the insertion portion; the protection part is in including folding cover and setting the sealing member of folding cover bottom, the folding cover is installed the upper portion of inserting portion perhaps on the handle portion, the cover can be expanded to the folding cover the inserting portion, the sealing member is used for sealing the folding cover.

The infection prevention endoscope provided by the embodiment of the invention has at least the following beneficial effects: through the upper portion at the inserted part or handle portion sets up folding cover, when the inserted part was taken out from the human body, down pull folding cover and make its expansion cover inserted part to the opening of sealing closure folding cover bottom, thereby keep apart inserted part and outside air, can prevent the viral propagation, prevent that the infectivity is strong, protect medical personnel not infected.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the closure comprises a cap, a snap ring provided on the cap, a snap ring provided at the bottom of the folded sleeve, and a connecting portion, the cap and the snap ring being connected by the connecting portion in a reversible manner, the snap ring being snapped onto the snap ring by pressing the cap, sealing the folded sleeve.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the closure member is a metal ring, which is arranged at the bottom of the folded sleeve and which can be pressed flat closed by a force.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the closure member includes a double-sided adhesive tape disposed on a bottom of the folded sleeve and a protective film covering the double-sided adhesive tape.

According to some embodiments of the invention, a top of the folding sleeve is provided with a latch, and an upper portion of the insertion portion or the handle portion is provided with a slot, and the latch and the slot cooperate to mount the folding sleeve on the upper portion of the insertion portion or the handle portion.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the cartridge is an annular cartridge.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the top portion of the folded sleeve is adhered to the upper portion of the insert portion or the handle portion by an adhesive.

According to some embodiments of the invention, the folded sleeve is a folded plastic film sleeve.

Additional aspects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.

Drawings

The above and/or additional aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent and readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of an infection prevention endoscope in an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of an infection prevention endoscope in an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of portion A of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a protection portion according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic structural view of a protection portion according to another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic structural view of the shield part of FIG. 5 in an unfolded state;

fig. 7 is a schematic structural view of the shield part in fig. 1 in a deployed state.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like or similar reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar function throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the accompanying drawings are illustrative only for the purpose of explaining the present invention, and are not to be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it should be understood that the orientation or positional relationship referred to in the description of the orientation, such as the upper, lower, front, rear, left, right, etc., is based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and is only for convenience of description and simplification of description, and does not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, unless otherwise explicitly limited, terms such as arrangement, installation, connection and the like should be understood in a broad sense, and those skilled in the art can reasonably determine the specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention in combination with the specific contents of the technical solutions.

Referring to fig. 1, 2 and 3, an infection-preventing endoscope includes an insertion portion 100, a handle portion 200 and a protective portion 300, the handle portion 200 is provided at an upper end of the insertion portion 100, the handle portion 200 is an endoscope operation end, and the insertion portion 100 is a site for insertion into a human body to be observed. The shield part 300 includes a folding sleeve 310 and a sealing member 320 provided at the bottom of the folding sleeve 310, the folding sleeve 310 being mounted on the upper portion of the insertion part 100 or the handle part 200 so as to wrap the portion of the insertion part 100 extending to the human body when the folding sleeve 310 is unfolded downward, the sealing member 320 being used to seal the folding sleeve 310. In an embodiment of the present invention, "bottom" refers to an end of the folding sleeve 310 near the insertion portion 100. In the endoscope of the present embodiment, the folding sleeve 310 is provided on the upper portion of the insertion portion 100 or the handle portion 200, and when the insertion portion 100 is drawn out from the human body while carrying viruses, aerosols, or the like in the human body, the folding sleeve 310 is pulled down to be spread to cover the insertion portion 100, and the opening at the bottom of the folding sleeve 310 is closed by the sealing member 320, whereby the insertion portion 100 is isolated from the outside air, and the transmission of viruses can be prevented, which is highly contagious, and protects medical staff from infection.

The closure 320 of the present invention may have various forms, and referring to fig. 4, in some embodiments of the present invention, the closure 320 includes a cap 321, a buckle 322 disposed on the cap 321, a snap ring 323 disposed on the bottom of the folding sleeve 310, and a connecting portion 324, the connecting portion 324 is a strip of plastic material capable of being freely bent, and the cap 321 and the snap ring 323 are reversibly connected by the connecting portion 324. Referring to fig. 7, when the insertion part 100 is withdrawn from the human body, the folded sheath 310 is pulled downward to be spread to cover the insertion part 100, and the snap ring 323 is caught by the snap ring 322 by pressing the cap body 321 to seal the folded sheath 310, thereby preventing the spread of viruses.

Referring to fig. 5, in other embodiments of the invention, the closure 320 is a metal ring that is disposed at the bottom of the folding sleeve 310 and that is forced to flatten closed. The metal ring is made of thin metal wires, is easy to bend, and can be coated with rubber or plastic to improve hand feeling. Referring to fig. 6, the folded sheath 310 is unfolded to close the metal ring, and specifically, when the insertion portion 100 is withdrawn from the human body, the folded sheath 310 is pulled downward to be unfolded to cover the insertion portion 100, and the metal ring is pinched by a human hand to be flattened and closed, so that the opening at the bottom of the folded sheath 310 is also closed, thereby preventing the virus from spreading.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the sealing member 320 may also be in the form of a double-sided adhesive tape on the bottom of the folding sleeve 310 and a protective film covering the double-sided adhesive tape, when the insertion portion 100 is withdrawn from the human body, the folding sleeve 310 is pulled downward to unfold to cover the insertion portion 100, the protective film on the double-sided adhesive tape is torn, and then the double-sided adhesive tape is used to stick the opening on the bottom of the folding sleeve 310 closed, so as to prevent the virus carried out from the human body from spreading in the air.

In some embodiments of the present invention, referring to fig. 3, the folding sleeve 310 is provided with a latch 330 at the top thereof, and the upper portion of the insertion portion 100 or the handle portion 200 is provided with a latch groove, and the latch 330 and the latch groove cooperate to mount the folding sleeve 310 on the upper portion of the insertion portion 100 or the handle portion 200. Specifically, the latch 330 is a ring-shaped latch, and fixes the foldable sleeve 310 to the upper portion of the insertion portion 100 or the handle portion 200, so that the foldable sleeve 310 does not separate from the endoscope when being pulled downward and unfolded. In other embodiments of the present invention, the top of the folding boot 310 is adhered to the upper portion of the insert 100 or the handle portion 200 by an adhesive. The folded sleeve 310 is also secured to the upper portion of the insertion section 100 or handle section 200 by adhesive bonding so that the folded sleeve 310 does not separate from the endoscope when it is pulled down and deployed.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the folding sleeve 310 is a folded plastic film sleeve that is lightweight and easy to install without affecting the endoscopic procedure.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and any modifications, equivalent substitutions, improvements, etc. within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the scope of the present invention as long as the technical effects of the present invention are achieved by the same means. The invention is capable of other modifications and variations in its technical solution and/or its implementation, within the scope of protection of the invention.

Claims

1. An infection-preventing endoscope, comprising:

an insertion section (100);

a handle portion (200) provided at an upper end of the insertion portion (100);

the protection part (300) comprises a folding sleeve (310) and a sealing piece (320) arranged at the bottom of the folding sleeve (310), the folding sleeve (310) is installed on the upper part of the insertion part (100) or on the handle part (200), the folding sleeve (310) can be unfolded to cover the insertion part (100), and the sealing piece (320) is used for sealing the folding sleeve (310).

2. An infection-preventing endoscope according to claim 1, wherein the sealing member (320) includes a cover (321), a buckle (322) provided on the cover (321), a snap ring (323) provided on the bottom of the folding sleeve (310), and a connecting portion (324), the cover (321) and the snap ring (323) are connected by the connecting portion (324) in a reversible manner, and the snap ring (323) is buckled to the buckle (322) by pressing the cover (321) to seal the folding sleeve (310).

3. An infection-preventing endoscope according to claim 1, wherein the closure (320) is a metal ring which is arranged at the bottom of the folding sleeve (310) and which can be pressed flat against the force of the metal ring.

4. An infection-preventing endoscope according to claim 1, wherein the sealing member (320) includes a double-sided tape disposed at the bottom of the folding sleeve (310) and a protective film covering the double-sided tape.

5. An infection-preventing endoscope according to claim 1, wherein the folding sleeve (310) is provided with a latch (330) at the top, and the insertion portion (100) or the handle portion (200) is provided with a latch groove, and the latch (330) and the latch groove are matched to mount the folding sleeve (310) on the insertion portion (100) or the handle portion (200).

6. An infection prevention endoscope according to claim 5, wherein the latch (330) is an annular latch.

7. An infection-preventing endoscope according to claim 1, wherein the top portion of the folding sleeve (310) is bonded to the upper portion of the insertion portion (100) or the handle portion (200) by an adhesive.

8. An infection-preventing endoscope according to claim 1, wherein the folded sleeve (310) is a folded plastic film sleeve.