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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2015
Applicant:
Karl Storz SE & Co. KG, Tuttlingen, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Karl Storz SE & Co. KG, Tuttlingen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 5/32 (2006.01); A61B 17/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/3421 (2013.01); A61B 17/3478 (2013.01); A61B 17/3474 (2013.01); A61B 2017/348 (2013.01); A61B 2017/349 (2013.01); A61B 2017/3492 (2013.01);
Abstract
A trocar sleeve has a hollow shaft having a distal end and a proximal end, the shaft having a rectilinear shaft axis, an external thread rising from an outer surface of the shaft, wherein a first external thread having a shape of a helix has a height, measured from the outer surface up to a vertex of the helix, the height of the helix, seen along the rectilinear shaft axis from distal to proximal increases, and wherein a pitch of the helix, seen along the rectilinear shaft axis from distal to proximal decreases.