Patent ID: 7857272
Filing Date: 2010-12-28
Classification: A61B,B25B

Abstract:
1. A holder for a medical imaging probe comprising: A base constructed and arranged to engage a distal end of a flexible arm, the base including a ball joint; A pair of confronting clamping plates, each having a distal end adapted to frictionally secure the medical imagining probe and proximal end having a hemispherical well sized to engage a ball end of the ball joint; An alignment member, which has a general T-shaped member, located distally of the well that movably aligns the confronting claiming plates; and An elastic band surrounding each of the clamping plates and located adjacent to the alignment member and the ball joint that biases the plates toward each other and toward the ball, the spring acting on the plates substantially distally of a diametral axis of the ball.