Device for inserting a surgical suture needle into an endoscopic suture apparatus

US6126666A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Forschungszcutrum Karlsruhe GmbH · DE

Inventors

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

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 23, 1999
• Grant date: Oct 3, 2000
• Expiry date: Aug 23, 2019

Classification

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

Abstract

In a device for inserting a surgical suture needle into an endoscopic suture apparatus wherein the device includes two legs which are movable relative to each other, one of the legs has a front end with means for receiving a jaw of an endoscopic suturing apparatus and the other leg has needle engagement means for holding a surgical needle in a predetermined position such that one needle tip enters a needle support of the surgical suturing apparatus jaw when the other leg holding the needle is moved toward the one leg while the one leg is disposed on the surgical suturing apparatus jaw.