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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2014
Karl Storz SE & Co. KG, Tuttlingen, DE;
Hermann-Josef Frings, Aachen, DE;
Karl Storz SE & Co. KG, Tuttlingen, DE;
Abstract
A medical instrument has a shaft with a longitudinal axis, a jaw head on a distal end of the shaft having two jaw parts, at least one of the jaw parts being pivotable about a pivot axis extending transversely to the longitudinal axis, the pivotable jaw part having a wheel portion with toothing mounted about the pivot axis, at least one actuation element having a distal end portion with toothing that meshes with the toothing of the wheel portion such that movement of the actuation element along the longitudinal axis pivots the pivotable jaw part, control elements at a proximal end of the shaft controlling movement of the actuation element, said distal end portion with toothing is flexible, one of the jaws having a hollow space arranged distally to the pivot axis, wherein the distal end portion comes in or out of the hollow space when moving the actuation element.