Patent ID: 11872159
Assignee: JOHNSON & JOHNSON SURGICAL VISION, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  Y | IPC A

Claim 6:
7. A method of receiving a cassette to a console of a phacoemulsification system, comprising:
receiving a bottom portion of the cassette upon a pre-alignment feature adjacent to a lower portion of a cassette receiver of the console; and
receiving a periphery of the cassette into the cassette receiver based on an alignment between the periphery of the cassette and the cassette receiver, wherein the alignment is guided by the pre-alignment feature, wherein the pre-alignment feature comprises a support shelf, including multiple shelf components, extending in a longitudinal direction and defining a plurality of slots spaced from each other in the longitudinal direction, the plurality of slots extending vertically to a receiving space from the lower portion, wherein the support shelf is configured with a surface to support at least a portion of the cassette as the cassette receiver receives at least one of the bottom portion and the top portion of the cassette, wherein the surface is configured to retain the lower portion of the cassette.