Valve and valved trocar jacket tube

• US 6,110,154 A
• Filed: 10/08/1997
• Issued: 08/29/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hakko Co., Ltd., Kazuyuki Shimomura
• Original Assignee: Hakko Electric Machine Works Company Limited, Kazuyuki Shimomura
• Inventors: Tamai, Yukihiko, Shimomura, Kazuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): McDermott, Corrine
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rodriguez, Cris L.
• Application Number:
  US08/946,993
• Time in Patent Office: 1,056 Days
• Field of Search: 604/256, 604/246, 604/513, 604/93, 604/104, 604/105, 604/174, 604/264, 604/268, 604/278, 604/913, 251/143, 128/887
• US Class Current: 604/256
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/3423 Access ports, e.g. toroid shape introducers for instruments or hands access sites for liquids A61M39/0247
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/3462 with means for changing the diameter or the orientation of the entrance port of the cannula, e.g. for use with different-sized instruments, reduction ports, adapter seals expandable cannulas A61B17/3417

Abstract

A valve and and a valved trocar jacket tube by which there is no need of an adapter, types of a clamp or the like to be used are not limited, and leakage of an inert gas from an abdominal cavity can be prevented. In the valve and the valved trocar jacket tube, when a pair of rings are relatively rotated at a predetermined angle in the opposite directions, a cylindrical section in a rubber-like member is opened. In case of employing a clamp or the like, it is inserted into the abdominal cavity through the opened cylindrical section. Since the rubber-like member has elasticity, the cylindrical section is close together with the clamp or the like inserted.

Claims

1. A valve disposed on a trocar jacket tube mounted to an incised portion of a diseased part, comprising:

a pair of coaxially aligned elliptical rings; and

a cylindrical elastic member including ends attached respectively to said pair of rings and an opening having a prescribed sectional area;

said pair of rings being capable of rotating in opposite directions relative to one another to a predetermined angle, whereby said opening changes between a closed state and said prescribed sectional area in response to ring rotation to said predetermined angle.

2. The valve defined in claim 1 further including a jacket means attached to either ring of said pair of rings and disposed within the incised portion of the diseased part to maintain the incised portion in an opened state.

3. The valve defined in claim 1, wherein said pair of rings are adjacent.

4. The valve defined in claim 3, wherein said pair of rings further comprise mating stepped portions, whereby said stepped portions guide the rings during rotation.

12. The valved trocar jacket tube of claim 3 wherein said jacket means includes:

a skirt of an elastic material attached at one end to one of said pair of rings; and

a ring-shaped resilient member attached to the other end of said skirt, said ring-shaped resilient member capable of expanding wider than the incised portion of the diseased part when inserted into the incised portion.

13. The valved trocar jacket tube of claim 3, wherein the cross-sectional area of said jacket means between the one end and the other end is smaller than cross-sectional areas at the one end and the other end thereof.

5. A valve disposed on a trocar jacket tube mounted to an incised portion of a diseased part, comprising:

a pair of coaxially aligned rings, wherein said pair of rings comprise ring-shaped sliding sections which slide mutually when said pair of rings are rotated to said predetermined angle, and said ring-shaped sliding sections have an elliptical contour; and

a cylindrical elastic member including ends attached respectively to said pair of rings and an opening having a prescribed sectional area;

said pair of rings being capable of rotating in opposite directions relative to one another to a predetermined angle, whereby said opening changes between a closed state and said prescribed sectional area in response to ring rotation to said predetermined angle.

6. A valved trocar jacket tube mounted to an incised portion of a diseased part, comprising:

a pair of rings coaxially aligned elliptical, and

a cylindrical elastic member including ends attached respectively to said pair of rings and an opening having a prescribed sectional area; and

said elastic member and rings forming a first valve that operates when either of said pair of rings is rotated relatively to a predetermined angle, said opening changes between a closed state and the prescribed sectional area in response to ring rotation to said predetermined angle, and

a jacket means attached to either ring of said pair of rings and adapted to be placed within the incised portion to maintain the incised portion in an opened state.

7. The valved trocar jacket tube as defined in claim 6 further comprising a second valve connected to said first valve by a connecting member.

8. The valved trocar jacket tube as defined in claim 6 wherein said jacket means is provided with a ring-shaped resilient member which expands wider than the incised portion of the diseased part when inserted into the incised portion, and a ring-shaped cylindrical member the ends of which are attached to either one of said pair of rings and said ring-shaped resilient member, respectively.

9. The valved trocar jacket tube as defined in claim 8 wherein said first valve is connected to a second valve by a connecting member.

10. The valved trocar jacket tube as defined in claim 8 wherein said resilient member includes a glove.

11. The valved trocar jacket tube defined in claim 6, wherein said jacket means comprises a cylindrical plastic tube.

14. A valved trocar jacket tube mounted to an incised portion of a diseased part, comprising:

a pair of rings coaxially aligned, wherein said pair of rings include ring-shaped sliding sections which slide mutually when said pair of rings are rotated to said predetermined angle, and said ring-shaped sliding sections have an elliptical contour;

a cylindrical elastic member including ends attached respectively to said pair of rings and an opening having a prescribed sectional area; and

said elastic member and rings forming a first valve that operates when either of said pair of rings is rotated relatively to a predetermined angle, said opening changes between a closed state and the prescribed sectional area in response to ring rotation to said predetermined angle, and

a jacket means attached to either ring of said pair of rings and adapted to be placed within the incised portion to maintain the incised portion in an opened state.