×

BI-DIRECTIONAL SUTURE PASSER

  • US 20110028998A1
  • Filed: 01/26/2010
  • Published: 02/03/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
First Claim
Patent Images

1. A bi-directional suture passing instrument configured to approximate soft tissue defects, the suture passing instrument comprising:

  • a body member defining a needle receiving channel;

    a boom arm extending from the body member, the boom arm having a boom arm housing that is spaced from the body member, wherein a tissue-receiving gap is disposed between the boom arm housing and the body member;

    a needle reciprocally translatable within the channel of the body member between an advanced position in which a distal end of the needle extends into the boom arm housing, and a retracted position in which the distal end of the needle is retracted from the boom arm housing; and

    a shuttling element configured to detachably couple to the needle, and to the boom arm housing,wherein (i) when the shuttling element is detachably coupled to the needle, rotation of the needle relative to the boom arm housing causes the shuttling element to detachably couple to the boom arm housing, and (ii) when the shuttling element is detachably coupled to the boom arm housing, rotation of the needle relative to the shuttling element causes the needle to detachably couple to the shuttling element.

View all claims
  • 9 Assignments
Timeline View
Assignment View
    ×
    ×