Ophthalmological device

• US 5,024,652 A
• Filed: 05/17/1990
• Issued: 06/18/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Microsurgical Laboratories Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Georgy E. Stolyarenko, Leopold V. Kossovsky, Vladimir A. Dumenek
• Inventors: Stolyarenko, Georgy E., Dumenek, Vladimir A., Kossovsky, Leopold V.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hindenburg, Max
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rafa, Michael
• Application Number:
  US07/525,304
• Time in Patent Office: 397 Days
• Field of Search: 604/22, 606/170, 606/171, 606/174, 606/175
• US Class Current: 604/22
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/3201 Scissors for biopsy A61B10/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00539 hydraulically
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 9/00763 with rotating or reciprocating cutting elements, e.g. concentric cutting needles atherectomy cutting instruments A61B17/3207; endoscopic cutting instruments A61B17/320016

Abstract

The device comprises a surgical instrument incorporating a movable element and a stationary element, and a drive made as a closed hydraulic system adapted to effect mutual displacement of the elements.

Claims

1. An ophthalmological device, comprising:

a surgical instrument comprising inner and outer, coaxial elements each having surgical means on one end for introduction into and performing a surgical procedure on a patient'"'"'s eye and an opposite end;

a housing fixedly connected to the opposite end of the outer element for holding the surgical instrument;

hydraulic drive means operative in response to hydraulic pressure for moving the inner element relative to the outer element and

pressure-exerting means for providing the hydraulic pressure, the pressure-exerting means forming a closed hydraulic system with the hydraulic drive means,

wherein said hydraulic drive means comprises a first bellows accommodated inside said housing and connected to said inner element;

a second bellows located in said pressure-exerting means; and

piping communicating said first bellows with said second bellows to establish a closed hydraulic system.

2. An ophthalmological device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said first bellows has a free end which is adapted to move upon actuation by liquid in said closed hydraulic system and on which rests the opposite end of said inner element.

3. An ophthalmological device as claimed in claim 1, comprising a spring fitted over said inner element and adapted to load said inner element with respect to said first bellows.

4. An ophthalmological device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said pressure-exerting means is made as a pedal defined by a first surface and a second surface, said surfaces being in an angular position to each other, while said second bellows is interposed between said first surface and said second surface.

5. An ophthalmological device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said surgical instrument is detachable along a face associating it with said end of said first bellows.

6. An ophthalmological device as claimed in claim 3, wherein said surgical instrument is detachable along a face associating it with said end of said first bellows.

7. An ophthalmological device as claimed in claim 3, wherein said pressure-exerting means is made as a pedal defined by a first surface and a second surface, said surfaces being in an angular position to each other, while said second bellows is interposed between said first surface and said second surface.

8. An ophthalmological device as claimed in claim 3, wherein said outer element is a first tube and said inner element is a second tube accommodated inside said first tube coaxially and having connector means extending therefrom for removing tissues from a patient'"'"'s eye through said second tube, said connector means being located on said inner element for also serving as a stop for said spring.

9. An ophthalmological device as claimed in claim 5, wherein said one ends of said elements are one of forceps and scissors of said surgical instrument.

10. An ophthalmological device as claimed in claim 6, wherein said outer element is a first tube and said inner element is a second tube accommodated inside first tube coaxially and having connector means extending therefrom for removing tissues from a patient'"'"'s eye through said second tube, said connector means being located on said inner element for also serving as a stop for said spring.

11. An ophthalmological device as claimed in claim 6, wherein said pressure-exerting means is made as a pedal defined by a first surface and a second surface, said surfaces being in an angular position to each other, while said second bellows is interposed between said first surface and said second surface.

12. An ophthalmological device as claimed in claim 6, wherein said one ends of said elements are one of forceps and scissors of said surgical instrument.

13. An ophthalmological device as claimed in claim 8, wherein said pressure-exerting means is made as a pedal defined by a first surface and a second surface, said surfaces being in an angular position to each other, while said second bellows is interposed between said first surface and said second surface.