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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2013
Applicant:
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Inventors:
Waltherus Cornelis Jozef Bierhoff, Veldhoven, NL;
Franciscus Marinus Antonius Maria Van Gaal, Heeze, NL;
Bernardus Hendrikus Wilhelmus Hendriks, Eindhoven, NL;
Vishnu Vardhan Pully, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 10/02 (2006.01); A61B 10/04 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/1459 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 10/0266 (2013.01); A61B 5/0066 (2013.01); A61B 5/0075 (2013.01); A61B 5/0086 (2013.01); A61B 5/1459 (2013.01); A61B 5/6857 (2013.01); A61B 5/742 (2013.01); A61B 10/04 (2013.01); A61B 5/0071 (2013.01);
Abstract
A biopsy device is proposed comprising a shaft and a tubular member. The shaft is movably, i.e. rotatably as well as shiftably accommodated within the tubular member and comprises a spiral at a distal end portion of the shaft, wherein the spiral is formed by a twisted sheet. Such a spiral may be considered as a laterally open thread having no solid core.