Patent ID: 9333287
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: A61B,A61M

Claim Text:
1. A device suitable for being passed through an internal channel of an endoscope, comprising at least one distal plug having a plurality of apertures which are capable of allowing the passage of a fluid therethrough, wherein said distal plug is connected to a distal end of an actuating element; wherein at least an outer portion of said distal plug is capable of being elastically deformed such that an external diameter thereof may be reduced in response to inwardly-directed compression forces exerted thereon from the inside of the internal channel of the endoscope as the actuating element moves inwardly in the internal channel of the endoscope closing the plurality of apertures to flow of the fluid when the apertures are in a closed conformation; and wherein said apertures are in an open conformation when said distal plug is not subject to said compression forces when the actuating element and distal plug extends out of the internal channel of the endo scope, said fluid being capable of passing through said apertures when said apertures are in said open conformation.