Ethicon, Gmbh

Anthony S Miksza, Jr

James J Bedi

Stephen J Failla

John DiGiovanni

William P McVay

John S Kula

Carl R Smith

Szabolcs M Vigh

An improved surgical fastener system comprising staples and receivers with flanges on the staple legs interlocking with openings in the receiver. Each staple is of polymeric material and U-shaped with a pair of parallel legs joined by a bridging member. Each leg is tapered from a large cross section at the bridging member to a pointed end. There are at least two spaced flanges on each leg with the area between those flanges being cut away. Each flange extends only part way around the circumference of a leg.

Surgical fastening systems made from polymeric materials

A surgical instrument for applying tissue fasteners. The instrument includes a stationary jaw and a movable jaw mounted on a support body. The jaws are placed on the opposite sides of the tissue to be joined. The instrument includes means for holding the tissue between the jaws while the fasteners are being applied and to provide rigidity between the jaws.

Surgical instrument for applying fasteners having tissue locking means

A surgical instrument for applying two-piece fasteners to tissue to be joined. The instrument includes a stationary jaw and a movable jaw mounted on a support body. The U-shaped staple portions of the fasteners are held in the movable jaw by friction means.

Surgical instrument for applying two-piece fasteners comprising

A fastener is provided to hold together separated portions of mammalian tissue and includes an open loop fastening member and a receiver adapted to receive the legs of the fastening member. Each fastening member leg extends through the receiver and the distal end of the leg is bent back into a base structure of the receiver to effect engagement of the fastening member and receiver. In the fully engaged configuration, the distal end of each bent leg does not project from the receiver and does not penetrate the tissue portions.

Two-piece tissue fastener with non-reentry bent leg staple and retaining

An actuating mechanism is provided for a hand-operated surgical instrument having at least one operating member. The operating member is engaged by or extends from a flexible pusher member wound at least partially around the circumference of a drum and secured thereto. A pinion is connected to the drum for rotation therewith and is driven by a gear segment on a handle that is pivotally monted to the instrument. A full stroke compelling mechanism is associated with the drum for preventing return of the handle to the unactuated position unless and until the operating member has been moved through the full design range of movement.

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Jersey City, NJ, United States of America

Anthony S Miksza, Jr