Surgical operating apparatus

• US 7,766,929 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2007
• Issued: 08/03/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: Masuda, Shinya
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Anhtuan T
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, TIN DUC
• Application Number:
  US11/864,047
• Publication Number:
  US 20090088667A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,040 Days
• Field of Search: 606/169, 606/171, 601/2, 604/22
• US Class Current: 606/169
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/1445 at the distal end of a shaft, e.g. forceps or scissors at the end of a rigid rod
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0046 with a releasable handle; with handle and operating part separable for prosthetic joint-implanting tools A61F2/4603
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/2929 with a head rotatable about the longitudinal axis of the shaft
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/294 Connection of actuating rod to jaw, e.g. releasable
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/320094 additional movable means performing clamping operation
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/320095 with sealing or cauterizing means

Abstract

A surgical tool includes a sheath, a probe body, a distal end portion and a proximal end portion. A probe distal end portion is provided at the distal end portion of the probe body, a jaw is rotatably supported on the distal end portion of the sheath and is engaged with the probe distal end portion. A first tubular member a fits on the proximal end portion of the sheath and extends rearward. It has an elongated slit and extends in an axial direction of the sheath. A second tubular member fits in a rear end portion of the first tubular member. A tubular driving member is slidably inserted in the sheath and rotates the jaw. A coupling member including a projection body passes through the second tubular member, includes an engaging portion which is engaged in the slit of the first tubular member.

Claims

1. A surgical operating apparatus comprising:

a sheath including a distal end portion and a proximal end portion;

a shaft-shaped probe body inserted through the sheath and including a distal end portion and a proximal end portion, and in which ultrasonic vibration is adopted to be transmitted;

a probe distal end portion provided at the distal end portion of the probe body;

a jaw rotatably supported on the distal end portion of the sheath and configured to be engaged with the probe distal end portion;

a first tubular member including a tubular body wherein the tubular body is fitted on the proximal end portion of the sheath, extends rearward, and includes an elongated slit, and the slit is provided in an outer peripheral wall portion of the tubular body and extends in an axial direction of the sheath;

a second tubular member inserted into a rear end portion of the first tubular member slidably in the axial direction of the sheath;

a tubular driving member inserted through the sheath slidably in the axial direction of the sheath, and configured to rotate the jaw by sliding movement thereof; and

a coupling member including a projection body and an engaging portion wherein the projection body projects outward from the driving member and is passed through the second tubular member to form a coupling body in which the driving member and the second tubular member are coupled to each other, and the engaging portion is engaged in the slit of the first tubular member to couple the coupling body to the first tubular member such that the coupling body is slidable as one body, relative to the first tubular member, along the slit in the axial direction of the sheath.

2. The surgical operating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the surgical operating apparatus includes a handle unit which is detachably coupled to the proximal end portion of the sheath,

the handle unit includes a stationary handle and a movable handle which is coupled rotatably about a rotational shaft relative to the stationary handle,

the first tubular member includes a first attachment/detachment section which is detachably coupled to the stationary handle, and

the second tubular member includes a second attachment/detachment section which is detachably coupled to the movable handle.

3. The surgical operating apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the sheath includes a flare portion at the proximal end portion of the sheath and the flare portion has a greater inside diameter than that of the other portion of the sheath, and

a seal mechanism configured to effect sealing between the sheath and the driving member is provided between the flare portion and the driving member.

4. The surgical operating apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the seal mechanism includes a pair of backup rings, which are paired in a back-and-forth direction along the axial direction of the sheath, and an O ring which is provided between the backup rings so as to be movable in the axial direction of the sheath.

5. The surgical operating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second tubular member has a through-hole in which the projection body of the coupling member is passed through, and

the projection body has a threaded portion which is screwed and coupled in the through-hole.

6. The surgical operating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second tubular member has a through-hole in which the projection body of the coupling member is passed through, and

the projection body has, at a part of a penetration portion which is passed through the through-hole, a press-fitting portion which is press-fitted in the through-hole.