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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 1995
Filed:
Feb. 25, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ferdinand Kockerling, D-91o54 Erlangen, DE;
Ignaz Schneider, D-91301 Forchheim, DE;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
606174 ; 606207 ;
Abstract
A surgical suture clamp is provided with two clamp jaws positioned movably one in relation to the other in a forceps-like manner. It is formed as an endoscopable suture clamp to be inserted into the body through a trocar and provided with a leading tube, in the vicinity of the inner tube end of which, to be lead into the body, at least one clamp jaw is positioned to be pivotably driven in relation to the second clamp jaw. A drive is arranged in the portion of the outer tube end remaining outside the body and is coupled by way of a transmission with the at least one pivotably driven clamp jaw.
Published as:
EP0615724A2; DE4308454A1; JPH06296616A; EP0615724A3; US5474570A; EP0615724B1; ATE167036T1; DE59406160D1;