Surgical instrument for applying ligating clips

US8894666B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Aesculap AG · DE

Inventors

• Peter Schulz · Tettnang, DE
• Pedro Morales · Tuttlingen, DE
• Dieter Weisshaupt

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 25, 2010
• Grant date: Nov 25, 2014
• Expiry date: May 8, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B2017/2911
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a surgical instrument for applying C-shaped ligating clips having two juxtaposed legs which are joined to each other by a bridge portion and are each divided by a longitudinal slot into two juxtaposed portions joined to each other at the free end of the legs, the surgical instrument comprising two juxtaposed clamping jaws with guiding surfaces facing each other for the legs of a ligating clip that lie against the guiding surfaces when the ligating clip is inserted between the clamping jaws, in order to improve the positioning of the ligating clip between the clamping jaws, it is proposed that there be arranged on at least one of the guiding surfaces of the clamping jaws an inwardly protruding projection which, when the ligating clip is advanced along the guiding surfaces, elastically enters the longitudinal slot of the ligating clip.