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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2014
Mini-lap Technologies, Inc., Dobbs Ferry, NY (US);
Sundaram Ravikumar, Briarcliff Manor, NY (US);
Guy Osborne, Trumbull, CT (US);
Harry Allan Alward, Shelton, CT (US);
TELEFLEX MEDICAL INCORPORATED, Morrisville, NC (US);
Abstract
A surgical device includes an elongated needle body defining an interior lumen extending longitudinally therethrough, having a sharpened distal tip portion. The device further includes an assembly operatively associated with the interior lumen of the needle body. The assembly includes a shaft having an outer surface profile corresponding to an inner surface of the interior lumen of the needle body and a pair of arms extending distally from the shaft. The pair of arms are biased radially outward from the longitudinal axis of the shaft, and each of the pair of arms having a blunt front surface, wherein one of the arms is in a fixed axial alignment with the sharpened distal tip portion of the needle body such that the arms act as an obturator relative to the sharpened distal tip portion of the needle body to guard the needle body from causing accidental needle tip trauma.