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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:
Jun. 01, 1999
Filed:
May. 28, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alfred Cuschieri, St. Andrews, GB;
Tim Frank, Newport-On-Tay, GB;
Assignee:
Karl Storz GmbH & Co., , DE;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
606205 ; 606-1 ; 606119 ; 606139 ; 606142 ; 606144 ; 606143 ; 606167 ; 606174 ; 606205 ; 606206 ; 606207 ; 606208 ;
Abstract
A medical handling device, in particular for endoscopic applications, has a distally arranged medical instrument, a proximally arranged handle which has a grip part that can be gripped with the hand, and further a shaft part arranged between instrument and handle. It is proposed that the grip part gripped by a human hand can pivot relative to the shaft part about both the volar flexion axis and the dorsal flexion axis of the wrist, with no change occurring thereby in the position of the shaft part.