REPETITIVE CLIPPING TREATMENT DEVICE

• US 20120046671A1
• Filed: 05/12/2010
• Published: 02/23/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Iida, Takayuki, Matsuoka, Yoshiaki, Oosako, Ryousuke
• Application Number:
  US13/318,759
• Publication Number:
  US 20120046671A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/143
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/1227 Spring clips
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/1285 for minimally invasive surgery

Abstract

A repetitive clipping treatment device has a cylindrical sheath loaded with a clip series that has plural clips, a manipulating wire to move the clip series in the longitudinal direction of the sheath inside the sheath, a handle main body connected to the sheath and having the manipulating wire arranged therein, a slider to move the manipulating wire in the axial direction of the handle main body, and a slider displacement regulating member to regulate the displacement of the slider in the axial direction to different displacements required for clipping treatment of each clip of the clip series. The plural different displacements corresponding to the respective clips are determined based on the lengths to protrude and the retraction amounts of the respective clips.

Claims

1. A repetitive clipping treatment device comprising:

a clip series having plural clips connected by a forward end of a subsequent clip being engaged with a rear end of a previous clip, and a connection member connected to the rearmost clip;

a cylindrical sheath loaded with the clip series;

a manipulating wire movably arranged in the sheath, and having a forward end detachably connected to the connection member so as to move the clip series in a longitudinal direction of the sheath in the sheath;

a handle main body connected to the sheath and having the manipulating wire extending from the sheath arranged therein;

a slider mounted on an outer periphery of the handle main body so as to be movable in an axial direction of the handle main body, engaged with the manipulating wire, and moving the manipulating wire in the axial direction of the handle main body, and

a slider displacement regulating member mounted on the outer periphery of the handle main body so as to be rotatable in a circumferential direction of the handle main body and regulating displacement of the slider in an axial direction of the handle main body to plural different displacements required for clipping treatment of each clip of the clip series,

wherein plural different displacements regulated by the slider displacement regulating member and corresponding to respective clips is calculated by obtaining an amount of retraction at a position of a clip of the clip series in advance, and determining a displacement based on a length required to cause each clip to protrude, and respective retraction amounts in each clip.

2. The repetitive clipping treatment device according to claim 1,

wherein an engagement portion between the previous clip and the subsequent clip in the clip series is covered with a connection ring fitted so as to be able to advance or retreat with respect to the clips, and

wherein the connection ring is pressed against an inner surface of the sheath and closed inward in the sheath, and presses and retains at least one of the clips connected in the connection ring, and at least two or more skirt portions opened more widely than the inner diameter of the sheath after passing through a forward end of the sheath to prevent retreating to an inside of the sheath are provided in a circumferential direction of the connection ring at the same position in a movement direction of the clips.

3. The repetitive clipping treatment device according to claim 2,

wherein an extension portion is provided as a portion of the connection ring on a proximal end side and extends, and the extension portion prevents a clip and the connection ring from coming off of the forward end of the sheath during clipping treatment.

4. The repetitive clipping treatment device according to claim 1,

wherein the slider displacement regulating member has plural position regulating grooves which is formed according to the plural different displacements, respectively, at predetermined intervals in the circumferential direction of the handle main body, and have different positions at forward end portions thereof on the sheath side.

5. The repetitive clipping treatment device according to claim 4,

wherein the slider displacement regulating member has position regulating grooves equal to or more than the number of the clips provided in the clip series.

6. The repetitive clipping treatment device according to claim 4,

wherein the slider displacement regulating member is arranged so that a position regulating groove whose sheath-side forward end portion is nearest to the sheath, and a position regulating groove whose forward end portion is farthest from the sheath are adjacent to each other, and

wherein a position regulating groove formed on the side where the position regulating groove whose forward end portion is nearest to the sheath, and the position regulating groove whose forward end portion is farthest from the sheath are not adjacent to each other is formed so that the forward end portion thereof is located at a position near the sheath gradually, as it goes from the position regulating groove whose forward end portion is nearest to the sheath, and the position regulating groove whose forward end portion is farthest from the sheath, on the side where the position regulating groove whose forward end portion is nearest to the sheath, and the position regulating groove whose forward end portion is farthest from the sheath are not adjacent to each other.

7. The repetitive clipping treatment device according to claim 6,

wherein the position regulating groove whose forward end portion is nearest to the sheath in the slider displacement regulating member is used for loading of the clip series into the sheath.

8. The repetitive clipping treatment device according to claim 4,

wherein the slider has a guide pin which extends toward the center of the handle main body and has a diameter capable of being inserted through the position regulating grooves, and

wherein, when the position of one position regulating groove of the plural position regulating grooves overlaps the position of the guide pin, the slider (the slider) moves in the axial direction of the handle main body along the overlapped position regulating groove.

9. The repetitive clipping treatment device according to claim 4,

wherein the clip series includes three clips, and the slider displacement regulating member has the position regulating grooves at intervals of 90°

in the circumferential direction of the handle main body.

10. The repetitive clipping treatment device according to claim 1,

wherein the clip has at least a claw portion and an arm portion, and the arm portion has a projection.

11. The repetitive clipping treatment device according to claim 10,

wherein the projection is wider than the arm portion.