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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2010
Timothy Sargeant, Guilford, CT (US);
Gregory Fischvogt, Hamden, CT (US);
Michael Bettuchi, Middletown, CT (US);
Gerald Hodgkinson, Guilford, CT (US);
Joshua Stopek, Guilford, CT (US);
Arpan Desai, Hamden, CT (US);
Atu Agawu, Princeton, NJ (US);
Saumya Banerjee, Hamden, CT (US);
Timothy Sargeant, Guilford, CT (US);
Gregory Fischvogt, Hamden, CT (US);
Michael Bettuchi, Middletown, CT (US);
Gerald Hodgkinson, Guilford, CT (US);
Joshua Stopek, Guilford, CT (US);
Arpan Desai, Hamden, CT (US);
Atu Agawu, Princeton, NJ (US);
Saumya Banerjee, Hamden, CT (US);
Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US);
Abstract
Biocompatible wound closure devices including an elongate body and a plug member are useful for wound repair. A wound closure device includes an elongate body defining a longitudinal axis and having a proximal end and a distal end, and a plug member having a tissue facing surface and including a first shaped section and a second shaped section, each of the first and second shaped sections having an abutment surface. The first and second shaped sections are movable about a hinge between a collapsed position in which the abutment surfaces extend away from the longitudinal axis of the elongate body and a deployed position in which the abutment surfaces abut and are substantially aligned with the longitudinal axis of the elongate body, the abutment surfaces controlling a deployed angle of the tissue facing surface of the plug member with respect to the elongate body.