Caged floating seal assembly

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9901373
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14339840

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A seal assembly establishes sealing engagement with a plurality of differently dimensioned instruments passing through a trocar. The seal assembly is a caged seal assembly movably disposed within the trocar and includes at least two seal segments disposable into and out of a sealing orientation relative to the instrument. A cage structure of the seal assembly includes at least two cage segments each connected to a seal segment, a biasing assembly connected to the cage structure and disposed and structured to normally bias the seal segments into sealing orientation.

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TELEFLEX MEDICAL INCORPORATED3015 CARRINGTON MILL BOULEVARD MORRISVILLE NC 27560

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McFarlane, Richard H Rivera Beach, US 35 1656

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