Apparatus for securely and gently holding a flexible elongated medical device

• US 10,556,058 B2
• Filed: 02/17/2016
• Issued: 02/11/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cath Lab Solutions LLC
• Original Assignee: Cath Lab Solutions LLC
• Inventors: Tamrazi, Anobel, Tamrazi, Patricia Judge
• Primary Examiner(s): Sandy, Robert
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lee, Michael S
• Application Number:
  US15/551,662
• Publication Number:
  US 20180021507A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,455 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00584 Clips
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 50/20 Holders specially adapted for surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments drapes with means to hold surgical instruments A61B46/23; for catheters A61M25/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/024 having a clip or clamp system
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/09116 Design of handles or shafts or gripping surfaces thereof for manipulating guide wires
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2039/087 Tools for handling tubes, e.g. crimping tool for connecting tubes to a connector
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/02 Holding devices, e.g. on the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/09 Guide wires
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1418 Clips, separators or the like for supporting tubes or leads
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/44444 having specific surface material or irregularity on or along engaging face
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/44564 having specific surface material or irregularity on or along engaging face

Abstract

A clip for holding a flexible elongated medical device. In embodiments, the clip has a hinge; first and second jaws movable with respect to each other about the hinge from a closed position to an open position, each of the jaws having a contact surface, the contact surface of the first jaw being disposed against the contact surface of the second jaw when the clip is in the closed position and away from the contact surface of the second jaw when the clip is in the open position; and flexible material disposed on at least one of the jaws, the flexible material comprising the contact surface. The invention also includes methods of holding a flexible elongated medical device.

Claims

1. A clip for holding a flexible elongated medical device, the clip comprising:

a hinge;

first and second jaws movable with respect to each other about the hinge from a closed position to an open position, each of the jaws having a contact surface, the contact surface of the first jaw being disposed against the contact surface of the second jaw when the clip is in the closed position and away from the contact surface of the second jaw when the clip is in the open position; and

flexible material disposed on at least one of the jaws, the flexible material comprising the contact surface, wherein the flexible material comprises PORON Medical®

urethane.

2. The clip of claim 1 further comprising a spring biasing the hinge to urge the jaws toward the closed position.

3. The clip of claim 2 wherein a living hinge comprises the hinge and the spring.

4. The clip of claim 1 further comprising first and second handles extending from the first and second jaws, respectively, to move the clip between the closed and open positions.

5. The clip of claim 1 wherein at least one of the jaws has an extension portion extending toward the other jaw, the extension portion contacting the other jaw when the clip is in the closed position.

6. The clip of claim 1 wherein the hinge is a living hinge.

7. The clip of claim 1 further comprising a latch adapted to maintain the clip in the closed position.

8. The clip of claim 7 wherein the latch is further adapted to apply a force to the jaws during actuation of the latch.

9. The clip of claim 1 further comprising a cleaning material disposed over the flexible material, the cleaning material comprising the contact surface.

10. The clip of claim 1 further comprising a textured surface on the flexible material.

11. The clip of claim 1 further comprising a lubricious surface on the flexible material.

12. The clip of claim 1 wherein the flexible material comprises a material which soaks up and holds liquid.

13. The clip of claim 12 wherein the flexible material comprises an open cell foam.

14. The clip of claim 1, wherein the hinge is configured to bias the first and second jaws to the closed position regardless of a position of the clip between the closed position and the open position.

15. The clip of claim 1, further comprising first and second handles extending from the first and second jaws, respectively, to move the clip between the closed and open positions, the hinge being positioned between a side at which the first and second handles are arranged, and an opposite side at which the first and second jaws are arranged.

16. The clip of claim 1, wherein the flexible material is wet.

17. The clip of claim 1, wherein the flexible material is wet and the flexible material is configured to prevent the flexible material sticking to the flexible elongated medical device when the flexible material is wet.