Reciprocating liposuction device
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1. A reciprocating liposuction device comprising:
- (a) a hand holdable housing with a forward end and a rearward end, said housing having a cylindrical chamber;
(b) a single rigid tubular cannula having a forward end and a rearward end, the forward end of said tubular cannula extending through said forward end of said housing, said tubular cannula further having a piston fixedly mounted thereon;
(c) means for mounting said piston in the forward cylindrical chamber;
(d) a suction tube extending through the rearward end of said housing and the rearward end of said tubular cannula slideably attached to a forward end of said suction tube; and
,(e) means for providing reciprocal movement of said piston within said cylindrical chamber.
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Apparatus is disclosed for performing liposuction in which the reciprocal motion of the cannula during the operation is automated. The apparatus includes a housing, a cannula and reciprocating arrangement to provide the motion for the cannula. In one arrangement, the suction being applied to the cannula to remove fatty tissue has the negative pressure created by the suction applied to the cannula to reciprocate it. In a second embodiment, a permanent magnet piston attached to the cannula is reciprocated by the use of electromagnets which simultaneously change polarity to apply a reciprocating force to the permanent magnet piston.
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1. A reciprocating liposuction device comprising:
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(a) a hand holdable housing with a forward end and a rearward end, said housing having a cylindrical chamber; (b) a single rigid tubular cannula having a forward end and a rearward end, the forward end of said tubular cannula extending through said forward end of said housing, said tubular cannula further having a piston fixedly mounted thereon; (c) means for mounting said piston in the forward cylindrical chamber; (d) a suction tube extending through the rearward end of said housing and the rearward end of said tubular cannula slideably attached to a forward end of said suction tube; and
,(e) means for providing reciprocal movement of said piston within said cylindrical chamber. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A medical aspiration apparatus comprising:
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(a) means for providing suction; (b) a hand-held surgical instrument having, (1) a forward end, (2) an enclosed chamber, (3) a cannula having a forward end and a rearward end, the forward end of said cannula extending through said forward end of said hand-held surgical instrument, a shaft portion of said cannula proximate to the forward end thereof adapted to easily reciprocate while in contact with a patient'"'"'s tissue, said cannula further having a piston fixedly mounted thereon and adapted to lie with said chamber, and, (4) means for providing reciprocal movement of said piston within said chamber; and
,(c) a suction tube communicating with the rearward end of said cannula with said means for providing suction such that the rearward end of said cannula slideable moveable within said suction tube. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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