Trocar and trocar system

• US 7,172,612 B2
• Filed: 08/12/2002
• Issued: 02/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Ishikawa, Manabu
• Primary Examiner(s): THALER, MICHAEL H
• Application Number:
  US10/218,081
• Publication Number:
  US 20030004528A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,639 Days
• Field of Search: 606/169, 606/185, 606/191, 604/164.1, 604/164.01
• US Class Current: 606/185
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/3415 for introducing tubes or catheters, e.g. gastrostomy tubes, drain catheters A61B17/3417 takes precedence; body piercing catheter guide needles A61M25/06
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/3417 Details of tips or shafts, e.g. grooves, expandable, bendable; Multiple coaxial sliding cannulas, e.g. for dilating syringe needles A61M5/32; dilators A61M29/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/3476 Powered trocars, e.g. electrosurgical cutting, lasers, powered knives
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/320071 with articulating means for working tip
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/320073 probe
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/347 Locking means, e.g. for locking instrument in cannula

Abstract

A trocar has a projection portion which is a part of a tube projecting from a distal end portion of an outer tube in the state in which the tube is inserted in the outer tube, an amount of projection of the projection portion from the distal end portion of the outer tube varying in accordance with relative movement of the tube and the outer tube.

Claims

1. A trocar system comprising:

a trocar needle structured to pierce a body wall;

an outer tube including a distal end and a proximal end from which the trocar needle is insertable;

a dilator which is interposed between the outer tube and the trocar needle, after being inserted from the proximal end of the outer tube, and has a pierce hole expansion portion that dilates a small-diameter pierce hole made by the trocar needle;

a guide member which includes a cylindrical portion which is projected outward from a distal end portion of the dilator, after being inserted from a proximal end portion of the dilator, the guide member including a handle portion which projects from a proximal end of the dilator, with the guide member engaged with the dilator; and

an adjusting mechanism for changing an amount of projection of the cylindrical portion by relatively moving the guide member and the dilator according to an operation of the handle portion to change the amount of projection of the cylindrical portion in a state in which the guide member and the dilator are combined.

2. A trocar system according to claim 1, wherein the dilator has a straight breakage-prevention portion at a conical distal end portion of the pierce hole expansion portion.

3. A trocar system according to claim 1, including an oscillator element operative for producing ultrasonic oscillation coupled to said trocar needle, thereby making the trocar needle capable to pierce an abdominal cavity wall.

4. A trocar system comprising:

a needle structured to pierce and to be inserted into a body wall;

an oscillation element which produces ultrasonic oscillation and is connected to the needle;

a sheath including a proximal end from which the needle is insertable, and a distal end which has a first opening from which the needle is projectable;

a trocar tube in which the sheath is insertable and which has a second opening at a distal end portion thereof, from which the distal end portion of the sheath is projectable, a length of the sheath projecting from the distal end portion of the trocar tube being greater than a thickness of the body wall; and

an adjusting mechanism in which a length of the sheath projecting from the distal end portion of the trocar tube is changed by an operation of the proximal end of the sheath according to a condition of a pierced portion, and the sheath is fixable, with the length changed,

wherein the sheath is projected from the proximal end of the trocar tube, while being engaged with the trocar tube.

5. A trocar system according to claim 4, further comprising a dilator in which the sheath is insertable and which has a third opening at a distal end portion thereof, from which the sheath is projectable, said dilator being insertable in the trocar tube, and the distal end portion of the dilator being projectable from said second opening.

6. A trocar system according to claim 5, wherein the distal end portion of the dilator has an expansion portion which dilates a hole formed in the body wall by the needle.

7. A trocar system according to claim 6, wherein the expansion portion has a distal end portion and a proximal end portion, and an outside diameter of the distal end portion is less than an outside diameter of the proximal end portion.

8. A trocar system according to claim 6, wherein the expansion portion has a substantially conical shape, and has an outside diameter gradually decreasing toward the distal end portion thereof.

9. A trocar system according to claim 6, further comprising an auxiliary member provided at a distal end portion of the expansion portion in order to prevent bending of the projection portion of the sheath.

10. A trocar system according to claim 8, wherein the auxiliary member is a hollow member having a tube path in the inside thereof, and the tube path of the auxiliary member communicates with a tube path of the dilator in which the sheath is inserted.

11. A trocar system according to claim 8, wherein a face of a distal end portion of the auxiliary member, which includes an opening, is inclined with respect to a longitudinal axis of the dilator.

12. The trocar according to claim 5, wherein the adjusting mechanism is provided in the dilator.

13. A trocar system according to claim 4, wherein a face of a distal end portion of the trocar tube, which includes said second opening, is inclined with respect to a longitudinal axis of the trocar tube.

14. A trocar comprising:

a needle structured to pierce and to be inserted into a body wall;

an oscillation element including a proximal end and a distal end to which the needle is connected, the oscillation element being configured to transmit ultrasonic oscillation to the needle;

a holding member including a distal end and a proximal end fixed to the proximal end of the oscillation element to hold the oscillation element;

a first tube including a handle portion, a distal end and a proximal end from which the needle is insertable, the first tube defining a position of part of the needle which is projected from the distal end of the first tube, proximal end of the first tube and the distal end of the holding member are engaged with each other, with the needle inserted from the distal end of the first tube; and

a second tube including a proximal end from which the first tube is insertable, and from which the handle portion of the first tube projects, and a distal end from which the distal end of the first tube is projectable in accordance with the relative movement between the first tube and the second tube, which is carried out by an operation of the handle portion of the first tube after the first tube is inserted from the proximal end of the second tube.

15. A trocar comprising:

a needle structured to pierce and to be inserted into a body wall;

an oscillation element to which the needle is connected, and which is configured to transmit ultrasonic oscillation to a distal end of the needle;

a first tube including a handle portion, a distal end and a proximal end from which the needle is insertable, the first tube being fixable, with a distal end of the needle projecting from the distal end of the first tube;

a second tube including a proximal end in which the first tube and the needle are insertable, and from which the handle portion of the first tube projects and a distal end from which the distal end of the first tube and the needle are projectable;

a lock mechanism for fixing the first tube to the second tube in one of at least two positions, which is selected in accordance with the movement of the first tube relative to the second tube by an operation of the handle portion, the lock mechanism enabling adjusting an amount of projection of the distal end of the first tube from the distal end of the second tube by changing a position of the first tube with respect to the second tube to said selected one of said at least two positions.

16. A trocar according to claim 15, further comprising:

a dilator which is insertable in the second tube and in which the first tube is insertable; and

wherein the dilator comprises an expansion portion projecting from the distal end portion of the second tube in the state in which the dilator is inserted in the second tube, and which dilates a hole formed in the body wall by the needle.

17. A trocar according to claim 16, wherein the expansion portion has a distal end portion and a proximal end portion, and an outside diameter of the distal end portion is less than an outside diameter of the proximal end portion.

18. A trocar according to claim 16, wherein the expansion portion has a substantially conical shape, and has an outside diameter gradually decreasing toward the distal end portion thereof.

19. A trocar according to claim 16, further comprising an auxiliary member provided at a distal end portion of the expansion portion in order to prevent bending of part of the first tube, which is projected from the distal end of the second tube.

20. A trocar according to claim 19, wherein said auxiliary member is a hollow member having a tube path in the inside thereof, and the tube path of the auxiliary member communicates with a tube path of the second tube in which the first tube is inserted.

21. A trocar according to claim 19, wherein a face of a distal end portion of the auxiliary member, which includes an opening, is inclined with respect to a longitudinal axis of the second tube.

22. The trocar according to claim 16, wherein

the lock mechanism also fixes relative movement of the first tube and the dilator, and is configured to change the amount of projection of the first tube projecting from the distal end of the second tube by relatively moving the first tube and the dilator, and to fix the changed state thereof by fixing the first tube with respect to the dilator, in a state in which the first tube, in which the needle is fixed, is inserted in the dilator which is inserted into the second tube.

23. The trocar according to claim 16, wherein the lock mechanism is provided in the dilator.

24. A trocar according to claim 15, wherein a face of a distal end portion of the second tube which includes an opening, is inclined with respect to a longitudinal axis of the second tube.

25. The trocar according to claim 15, wherein the lock mechanism is configured to change the amount of projection of the first tube with respect to the distal end of the second tube in accordance with a condition of a piercing portion.

26. The trocar according to claim 15, farther comprising:

a needle fixing mechanism for fixing the needle and the first tube in a state in which the needle projects from the distal end of the first tube.

27. A trocar system according to claim 15, wherein the lock mechanism comprises a plurality of groove portions formed in the second tube and a projection member provided on the first tube.