Surgical device for pushing together a thread loop

US7160310B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Aesculap AG & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Markus Nesper · Tuttlingen, DE
• Klaus-Dieter Steinhilper · Tuttlingen, DE
• Dieter Weisshaupt

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 7, 2004
• Grant date: Jan 9, 2007
• Expiry date: Jun 7, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B2090/037
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

To avoid a maximum displacing force being exceeded in the case of a device for pushing together a thread loop which is formed by a slip knot at the distal free end of the thread which can be displaced along the thread, with a displacing element which can be displaced on the thread in the direction of the loop, it is proposed that the displacing element or the proximal portion of the thread disposed at the end of the displacing element remote from the loop has connected to it a gripping element which releases the connection between itself and the displacing element or the proximal portion of the thread when a specific holding force is exceeded.