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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 16, 1999
Andreas Dingler, Birkenfeld, DE;
Ernst Falk, Sternenfels-Diefenbach, DE;
Richard Wolf GmbH, Knittlingen, DE;
Abstract
A medical instrument including a housing, a shank a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end of the shank being connected to the housing, an openable and closable two-part tool provided at the distal end of the shank, an actuating element that runs through the housing and the shank so as to be axially shiftable for actuating the tool, and an elastic buffer as overload protection whereby the buffer elastically deforms to buffer an axial force overload transmitted from the actuating element onto the shank. The buffer is formed as a shaped body of elastic material arranged between the shank and the housing so that during overloading the buffer is deformed by the shank which at the same time shifts axially proximally with respect to the housing.