Surgical suturing device

US5690652A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Helmut Wurster · Oberderdingen, DE
• Rainer Trapp · Graben-Neudorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 6, 1997
• Grant date: Nov 25, 1997
• Expiry date: Jan 6, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B2017/0609
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a surgical suturing device especially for endoscopic surgery, an operating mechanism is provided which includes a drive and a locking mechanism operated by a handle from which an operating rod extends to an operating mechanism which carries at its free end a suturing head comprising two jaws between which a needle with opposite needle tips and a central eye can be exchanged while being alternately locked with the two jaws, the whole procedure being controllable by a single handle.