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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2000
Henry H. McDonald, Rancho Mirage, CA (US);
Surgical Concepts, Inc., Newport Beach, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus used for manipulation of a gripped element employed in surgery, which includes two elongated lever arms, each of which has a distal first zone, and a second zone or zones rearward of distal first zone, and a handle from which the arms extend forwardly; the arms supported so that first distal zones are yieldably urged toward one another by the arms to hold the gripped element therebetween; and a pusher movable between the arms to pivot one arm relative to the other arm in response to controllable force exertion acting on the pusher, as from a location outside the arms, thereby to cause the first zones to relatively move, enabling gripping or release of the element.