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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2005
Applicant:
Timothy Graham Frank, Fife, GB;
Inventor:
Timothy Graham Frank, Fife, GB;
Assignee:
Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG, , DE;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention relates to a medical gripping and/or retaining instrument, in particular a needle holder, with a handle consisting of at least two handgrips and a retaining part that consists of at least two jaw members and can be activated by the handle. To create a gripping and/or retaining instrument which ensures that at least one part of a jaw member of the retaining part is mounted so that it can rotate with respect to at least another jaw member working with this jaw member around the longitudinal axis of the jaw member and/or can be displaced in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the jaw member.