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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014
Filed:
May. 29, 2008
Ran Oren, Kibbutz Gaaton-Doar-Na Oshrat, IL;
Laurent Lafosse, Annecy-Le-Vieux, FR;
Shai Nahmias, Nahariya, IL;
Dan Moor, Kibbutz Gaaton-Doar-Na Oshrat, IL;
Ran Oren, Kibbutz Gaaton-Doar-Na Oshrat, IL;
Laurent Lafosse, Annecy-Le-Vieux, FR;
Shai Nahmias, Nahariya, IL;
Dan Moor, Kibbutz Gaaton-Doar-Na Oshrat, IL;
T.A.G. Medical Devices—Agriculture Cooperative Ltd., Kibbutz Gaaton, IL;
Abstract
An implement, particularly useful as a medical implement for applying a suture to a body tissue, includes a handle and shaft formed with a pair of channels extending from the proximal end of the handle through the distal end of the shaft and through a pair of jaws carried at the distal end of the shaft. The pair of channels converge towards each other to a cross-over point, and then diverging away from each other where existing at the distal end of the shaft. The channels are dimensioned to enable a piercing instrument to be passed first through one of the channels to pierce the body with a first bore, and then through the other of the channels to pierce the body with the second bore, such that the two bores have entry ends precisely spaced a predetermined distance from each other, and exit ends precisely spaced a larger predetermined distance from each other.