Surgical clip cartridge and housing member for use therein

US8403138B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Aesculap AG · DE

Inventors

• Dieter Weisshaupt
• Alexander Disch · Glückstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 23, 2010
• Grant date: Mar 26, 2013
• Expiry date: May 25, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B17/1222
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In order to improve the fixing of the surgical clips in the housing member in a surgical clip cartridge with a housing member and with a plurality of C-shaped surgical clips stored therein, having two limbs connected to one another by a web, the housing member comprising a plurality of compartments each to receive a surgical clip, with a support face adapted to the contour of the surgical clip in each compartment, against which support face a respective surgical clip abuts with its inner face, with holding members arranged on the housing member, which can be pivoted from a holding position into a release position and, in the holding position, fix the surgical clip in its compartment and, in the release position, are removed from the surgical clip, it is proposed that openings are provided in the limbs, in which the holding members engage in the holding position.