Medical procedure tool

• US 8,206,407 B2
• Filed: 04/06/2006
• Issued: 06/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Onuki, Yoshio, Miyamoto, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Jackson, Gary
• Assistant Examiner(s): COLELLO, ERIN L
• Application Number:
  US11/399,664
• Publication Number:
  US 20060259044A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,273 Days
• Field of Search: 606/139, 606144-150, 606/138, 606/171
• US Class Current: 606/139
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/0401 Suture anchors, buttons or pledgets, i.e. means for attaching sutures to bone, cartilage or soft tissue; Instruments for applying or removing suture anchors A61B17/0642 takes precedence; fixation devices for tendons or ligaments A61F2/0811
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/0467 Instruments for cutting sutures surgical cutting instruments A61B17/32
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/0487 Suture clamps, clips or locks, e.g. for replacing suture knots; Instruments for applying or removing suture clamps, clips or locks suture anchors A61B17/0401; wound clamps or clips A61B17/08; ligaturing clamps or clips A61B17/122
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/12 for ligaturing or otherwise compressing tubular parts of the body, e.g. blood vessels, umbilical cord specially adapted for vas deferens or fallopian tubes A61F6/20; materials for ligaturing blood vessels A61L17/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/12013 for use in minimally invasive surgery, e.g. endoscopic surgery
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0404 Buttons
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0409 Instruments for applying suture anchors for applying suture clamps, clips or locks A61B2017/0488
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0417 T-fasteners
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0458 Longitudinal through hole, e.g. suture blocked by a distal suture knot
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0464 for soft tissue
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0496 for tensioning sutures
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/06052 Needle-suture combinations in which a suture is extending inside a hollow tubular needle, e.g. over the entire length of the needle hollow suture needles A61B2017/061

Abstract

A medical procedure tool equipped with:

• • a flexible linear material for carrying out a specific procedure to a biological tissue;
  • a linear material holding member provided covering the linear material in a freely advancing and retracting manner, for holding the linear material;
  • a flexible first sheath provided so as to come into contact with the base end side of the linear material holding member;
  • a flexible second sheath provided so as to be freely advancing and retracting with respect to the first sheath and the linear material holding member;
  • an operator for advancing and retracting manipulation of the second sheath; and
  • a cutting means for cutting the linear material; wherein
    • the cutting means is provided with a first cutting part provided to the linear material holding member; and a second cutting part that is provided to the front end of the second sheath and which, together with the first cutting part, grips the linear material there between; and
    • one of either the first cutting part or the second cutting part is a blade member.

Claims

1. A medical procedure tool comprising:

a flexible linear material for carrying out a specific procedure to a biological tissue;

a linear material holding member provided covering said linear material in a freely advancing and retracting manner, for holding said linear material;

a flexible first sheath provided so as to come into contact with a base end side of said linear material holding member;

a flexible second sheath provided covering said first sheath and so as to be freely advancing and retracting with respect to said first sheath and said linear material holding member, and having an inner diameter larger than an outer diameter of at least a portion of the linear material holding member;

an operator that is connected to a base end side of said second sheath and is for advancing and retracting manipulation of the second sheath; and

a cutter for cutting said linear material;

wherein

said cutter is provided with a first cutting part provided to said linear material holding member; and

a second cutting part that is provided to the front end of said second sheath and which, together with said first cutting part, grips said linear material therebetween;

the second cutting part is a blade member;

said first cutting part has a front end guide for guiding said linear material from inside said linear material holding member to the outside, and a base end guide for guiding said linear material that was guided to the outside by said front end guide back inside;

said second cutting part is disposed farther forward than said base end guide of said first cutting part; and

said second cutting part is disposed to a position where said linear material exposed to the outside is held between said second cutting part and said base end guide part in a state in which a base end of said second cutting part holds said linear material, and

said cutter is configured and operative to cut said linear material by moving the second sheath in the direction of the base end with respect to said first sheath.

2. A medical procedure tool according to claim 1, wherein said second cutting part is provided to a cutting member that freely attaches to and releases from the second sheath.

3. A medical procedure tool according to claim 1, wherein said first sheath is a coil sheath.

4. A medical procedure tool according to claim 1, wherein said linear material is a ligating wire for ligating biological tissue.