CLIPPING DEVICE

• US 20090228023A1
• Filed: 03/03/2009
• Published: 09/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: CUI, Shengfu
• Application Number:
  US12/397,114
• Publication Number:
  US 20090228023A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/142
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/122 Clamps or clips , e.g. for the umbilical cord for the vas deferens A61F6/206
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/1285 for minimally invasive surgery

Abstract

A clipping device comprises: a clip loaded into a forward end portion of a sheath; a manipulating wire connected to a rear end of the clip; and a retention ring fitted onto the clip and fitted into the sheath so as to be capable of advancing and retreating. The retention ring includes: a resin retaining portion which has two or more skirt portions which, when being situated inside the sheath, are closed inwardly by being pressed by an inner wall of the sheath and which, when being situated outside of a forward end of the sheath, are opened in a width larger than an inner diameter of the sheath to prevent retreat into the sheath, and a metal clamping portion arranged on a forward end side of the retaining portion and, when being situated on a forward end side of the clip, abutting the clip to clamp it.

Claims

1. A clipping device comprising:

a clip loaded into a forward end portion of a sheath;

a manipulating wire connected to a rear end of the clip and used to pull the clip; and

a retention ring fitted onto the clip and fitted into the sheath so as to be capable of advancing and retreating,

wherein the retention ring includes;

a resin retaining portion which has, at the same position in a clip pulling direction and at positions circumferentially spaced apart from each other, two or more skirt portions which, when being situated inside the sheath, are closed inwardly by being pressed by an inner wall of the sheath and which, when being situated outside of a forward end of the sheath, are opened in a width larger than an inner diameter of the sheath to prevent retreat into the sheath, and

a metal clamping portion arranged on a forward end side of the retaining portion and, when being situated on a forward end side of the clip, abutting the clip to clamp the clip.

2. A clipping device of a magazine type comprising:

a plurality of clips loaded into a forward end portion of a sheath while being engaged with other clips longitudinally connected together;

at least one connection ring fitted into the sheath so as to be capable of advancing and retreating and covering an engagement portion of the clips to maintain the clips in a connected state; and

a manipulating wire connected to a rearmost clip and adapted to pull a clip row formed of the plurality of clips,

wherein the connection ring includes;

a resin retaining portion which has, at the same position in a clip pulling direction and at positions circumferentially spaced apart from each other, two or more skirt portions which, when being situated inside the sheath, are closed inwardly by being pressed by an inner wall of the sheath and which, when being situated outside of a forward end of the sheath, are opened in a width larger than an inner diameter of the sheath to prevent retreat into the sheath, and

a metal clamping portion arranged on a forward end side of the retaining portion and, when being situated on a forward end side of the clip, abutting the clip to clamp the clip.

3. The clipping device according to claim 2, wherein, when the skirt portions of the connection ring are inwardly closed inside the sheath, at least one of a pair of clips connected together in the connection ring is retained through pressurization.

4. The clipping device according to claim 2, wherein the plurality of clips are connected together with orientations thereof being changed alternately by 90 degrees.

5. The clipping device according to claim 2, wherein a foremost clip is pulled with respect to the connection ring corresponding by the manipulating wire, and an engagement portion between the clip and a succeeding clip is detached from the connection ring to thereby release the clip from the connection with the succeeding clip.

6. The clipping device according to claim 2, wherein, after the foremost clip has been released from the connection and used for clipping, the sheath is pulled down to a position where next clip protrudes, whereby the next clip becomes usable.