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Staple pocket arrangement for surgical stapler

  • US 7,815,092 B2
  • Filed: 07/27/2006
  • Issued: 10/19/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A surgical stapler device for closing staples, each staple having a distal staple leg and a proximal staple leg, the device comprising:

  • an anvil portion including at least two rows of staple pockets, each one of the at least two rows including a pair of staple pockets corresponding to each staple, each pair of staple pockets including a distal staple pocket for receiving and closing the distal staple leg of the corresponding staple and a proximal staple pocket for receiving and closing the proximal staple leg of the corresponding staple, wherein a staple pocket in a first row of staple pockets is nested with a staple pocket from a second row of staple pockets,wherein each side of each staple pocket of the pair of staple pockets has a series of convex and concave curves when viewed from above, andwherein a distance between a longitudinal centerline of the first row of staple pockets and a longitudinal centerline of the anvil portion is greater than a distance between a longitudinal centerline of the second row of staple pockets and the longitudinal centerline of the anvil portion, and wherein a distance between the longitudinal centerline of the first row of staple pockets and the longitudinal centerline of the second row of staple pockets is less than a maximum width of each staple pocket.

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