Clip device for endoscope and clip for endoscope for use therein

• US 7,357,805 B2
• Filed: 12/12/2002
• Issued: 04/15/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sumitomo Bakelite Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Bakelite Company Limited
• Inventors: Harada, Shinetsu, Masuda, Haruhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Hayes; Michael J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mendoza; Michael G.
• Application Number:
  US10/498,162
• Publication Number:
  US 20050049618A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,951 Days
• Field of Search: 606/151, 606/142, 606/143, 606/139, 292/435.6
• US Class Current: 606/142
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/0643 with separate closing member, e.g. for interlocking with staple
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/083 Clips, e.g. resilient
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/10 for applying or removing wound clamps, e.g. containing only one clamp or staple A61B17/076 takes precedence; containing multiple wound clamps A61B17/068; Wound clamp magazines containers, packaging elements or packages specially adapted for particular articles or with special means for dispensing contents B65D83/00, B65D85/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/105 Wound clamp magazines for packaging sharps A61B50/3001
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/122 Clamps or clips , e.g. for the umbilical cord for the vas deferens A61F6/206
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/1222 Packages or dispensers therefor clip magazines incorporated in a clip-applying instrument A61B17/128; for surgical articles A61B50/30
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/1285 for minimally invasive surgery
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/30 Surgical pincettes without pivotal connectionsfor holding suture needles or materials A61B17/0483; wound clamps A61B17/08 ; hand-held gripping tools without pivotal connections in general B25B9/02

Abstract

A clipping device improves defects that the clip can not be again opened once the clip is closed, and that it is necessary to execute the operation in a state in which the clip is not sufficiently opened. The invention provides a clip device for an endoscope constituted by a clipping means having a pair of arm portions which are allowed to be opened and closed, an operating means for holding the arm portions of the clipping means so as to open and close the arm portions, a fixing means for fixing the arm portions after closing the arm portions, and an arranging means for arranging the fixing means in an outer side of the arm portion.

Claims

1. A clip device for an endoscope comprising:

a hollow member having a pair of operating means in a leading end of said clip device, said operating means being constituted for holding a pair of elastic operating arms so as to open and close said operating arms;

an outer member covering said hollow member and provided for opening and closing the operating means;

wherein said elastic operating arms are restored to an open position when said operating arms are slid out from said outer member;

a control member connected to said outer member;

a clip having arm portions being capable of being opened and closed by said pair of elastic operating arms; and

a fixing means arranged on an outer periphery of the outer member for fixing the clip after clipping,

wherein the operating means is opened and closed by moving the control member connected to the outer member in an axial direction.

2. A clip device for an endoscope as claimed in claim 1, wherein the arm portions of the clip have a means for fixing to the operating arms.

3. A clip device for an endoscope as claimed in claim 1, wherein the operating arms have a means for fixing to the arm portions of the clip.

4. A clip device for an endoscope as claimed in claim 1, wherein the arm portions of the clip means are connected in a base portion in a state in which a width thereof is continuously reduced along a part of or along an entire length of the arm portions.

5. A clip device for an endoscope as claimed in claim 1, wherein the arm portion of the clip is always closed in a clip single body state, on the basis of an elasticity of the clip or another elastic body mounted to the arm portions.

6. A clip device for an endoscope as claimed in claim 1, wherein the fixing means and the clip are previously arranged in a small hole provided on a plate, and are thereafter loaded to the device.