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Basket-type grasping tool adapted for use in combination with an endoscope

US6077274A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 8, 1998
Grant dateJun 20, 2000
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Expiry dateSep 8, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA61B2017/2212
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A basket-type grasping tool, adapted for use in combination with an endoscope, for capturing a foreign material or the like into a basket section. Axially corresponding portions of elastic wires are each twisted in the same direction about a center axis of a basket section. Guide paths, through which the elastic wires respectively pass, are formed on an inner face of a tip-end mouth of a sheath.

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