Sumitomo Bakelite Company Limited

Shinetsu Harada

Haruhiko Masuda

Miyuki Nishimura

Yoshiaki Okada

Akira Harada

A clipping instrument for biological tissues equipped with an outer tube which can be inserted into a biological cavity, an operating member freely passed through the outer tube, an operating wire freely passed though the operating member, a self-opening holder which can be opened and closed by the action of the operating member attached to the edge of the operating wire, and a self-opening clop having a clipping member for clopping a biological tissue which is attached to the edge of the holder in a detachable manner by opening/closing the holder. Using this clopping instrument, a lesion site can be surely clipped over a long period of time in ligating a breeding site in a biological tissue, stitching a laceration, making in excision of a mucosal tissue and so on with an endoscope.

Clip and clipping instrument for biological tissues

A clipping device improves defects that the clip can not be again opened once the clip is closed, and that it is necessary to execute the operation in a state in which the clip is not sufficiently opened. The invention provides a clip device for an endoscope constituted by a clipping means having a pair of arm portions which are allowed to be opened and closed, an operating means for holding the arm portions of the clipping means so as to open and close the arm portions, a fixing means for fixing the arm portions after closing the arm portions, and an arranging means for arranging the fixing means in an outer side of the arm portion.

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Akita, Japan

Shinetsu Harada