Intra-intestinal bypass gun

• US 6,068,636 A
• Filed: 04/23/1999
• Issued: 05/30/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Te-Chuan Chen
• Original Assignee: Te-Chuan Chen
• Inventors: Chen, Te-Chuan
• Primary Examiner(s): Buiz, Michael
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bui, Vy Q.
• Application Number:
  US09/296,593
• Time in Patent Office: 403 Days
• Field of Search: 606/153, 606/154, 606/155, 606/156, 606/148, 606/150, 623/1, 623/12
• US Class Current: 606/153
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/1114 of the digestive tract, e.g. bowels or oesophagus
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/1132 End-to-end connections

Abstract

An intra-intestinal bypass gun, which includes a tube body, a gun head unit, and an operation unit, wherein the gun head unit includes a base, a guide rod, a push rod, and a hollow anastomosis rod; the operation unit includes a rotary member, a movabler shaft, a hollow screw cap, and a quick-release connector. Rotating the rotary member causes the movable shaft, the quick-release connector, the guide rod and the hollow anastomosis rod to be moved axially upwards/downwards in opening/closing the head portion of the anastomosis rod so that a bypass tube can be secured with an anastomosis ring to the inside of the intestinal canal during an intra-intestinal bypass operation.

Claims

1. An intra-intestinal bypass gun comprising:

a tube body having a first end and a second end;

a gun head unit coupled to the first end of said tube body, said bun head unit comprising a cylindrical base, a hollow guide rod moved in said cylindrical base, a hollow anastomosis rod having a head portion and a tail portion connected to one end of said guide rod, and a push rod fastened to said cylindrical base on the inside and suspended inside the head portion of said hollow anastomosis rod; and

an operation unit, said operation unit comprising a rotary member coupled to the second end of said tube body, a hollow screw cap coupled between said rotary member and the second end of said tube body, a movable shaft coupled to said rotary member and suspended in said tube body and moved axially up and down in said tube body upon rotary motion of said rotary member, and a quick-release connector connected to one end of said movable shaft remote from said rotary member to secure said gun head unit to said movable shaft;

wherein when said rotary member is rotated in one direction, said gun head unit is moved downwards with said movable shaft relative to said push rod, thereby causing the head portion of said hollow anastomosis rod to be stretched open by said push rod;

when said rotary member is rotated in the reversed direction, said gun head unit is moved upwards with said movable shaft, thereby causing the head portion of said hollow anastomosis rod to be released from said push rod,

wherein said guide rod comprises an annular groove around the periphery of an endpiece at one end thereof for coupling to said quick-release connector, and said quick-release connector has a plurality of steel balls for engaging into the annular groove at the endpiece of said guide rod to secure said guide rod to said operation unit, and

wherein the base of said gun head unit comprises an anastomosis ring seat, which supports an anastomosis ring.

2. The intra-intestinal bypass gun of claim 1 wherein said hollow anastomosis rod is made of elastic material, comprising a plurality of longitudinal splits met at the top center of said head portion, and an elastic binding ring mounted on said head portion.

3. The intra-intestinal bypass gun of claim 1 wherein said movable shaft has one end terminating in a screw rod threaded into a screw hole at one end of said rotary member.

4. The intra-intestinal bypass gun of claim 1 wherein said operation unit further comprises an axial guide mounted inside said tube body to guide axial movement of said movable shaft.

5. The intra-intestinal bypass gun of claim 4 wherein the second end of said tube body comprises a receiving chamber, which receives said axial guide.

6. The intra-intestinal bypass gun of claim 1 wherein said operation unit further comprises an index rod connected to said movable shaft at one end for indicating the distance of movement of said movable shaft.

7. The intra-intestinal bypass gun of claim 1 wherein said anastomosis ring is comprised of two symmetrical halves coupled together and moved relative to each other and defining a neck therebetween.