Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
606146000 | Spool feeds suture to needle | 17 |
20080275474 | SUTURE ANCHOR LOADER - A suture anchor loader comprises a housing with a port. A channel extends into the housing from the port, the channel being dimensioned to receive a surgical needle. A suture anchor is preloaded in the channel with a length of suture connected to the suture anchor and stored in the housing. A push rod is slideably positioned in the channel such that the suture anchor is intermediate the push rod and the port. An actuator is operatively connected to push rod to selectively deploy the anchor into the needle. | 11-06-2008 |
20090112235 | Device For Moving A Thread Of A Surgical Sewing Instrument | 04-30-2009 |
20090264905 | Medical Instrument - A medical instrument which allows ligation in a living body to be efficiently carried out in safety by only one operator, or one operator and an assistant is provided. The medical instrument comprises a puncture needle for surgical suture insertion ( | 10-22-2009 |
20090270886 | Hollow suture needle with handle - A suture needle instrument having improved connection means enabling a hollow suture needled to be attached to a handle in a variety of orientations. The suture needle is provided with user accessible suture channels and suture advancing wheels to facilitate cleaning and repair. | 10-29-2009 |
20100030241 | Spooled filament to repair tissue - A filament-guiding device directs a filament to spool over a rotating device within tissue. The filament-guiding device has both closed and open positions. In the closed position, the filament-guiding device is resiliently straightened for delivering into tissue. Within tissue, the filament-guiding device resumes a curved configuration in the open position to orient the filament perpendicular to the rotating device for spooling. The spooled filament is deployed by withdrawing the rotating device and filament-guiding device to bulk and repair the tissue. | 02-04-2010 |
20100076462 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DELIVERING AND APPLYING SUTURE ANCHORS - Methods and devices are provided for deploying and applying a suture anchor. In one embodiment, a surgical device is provided having a shaft configured to be introduced into a body and to deliver a suture anchor with a coil of suture attached thereto to tissue. The shaft can be configured to deploy the suture anchor through tissue and to deliver the coil of suture into a body cavity such that the suture extending from the coil extends through the tissue to allow the anchor to engage the tissue. The coil can remain in the body cavity for subsequent use. | 03-25-2010 |
20110077671 | SUTURE MANAGEMENT - Various exemplary methods and devices are provided for tensioning suture. The methods and devices are particularly useful in surgical suturing applications in which it is desirable to maintain tension on suture being delivered, yet to allow the tension to be released as desired without retracting the suture. Thus, when tension is released, a length of suture extended from the device can remain extended without any tension being applied thereto. Tension is only applied to any additional length of suture that is extended from the device. The tension applied to the suture is proportional to the length of the suture extended from the device until the tension is released and reset. | 03-31-2011 |
20120209299 | SUTURING INSTRUMENT CAPABLE OF SELECTING AND SUPPLYING A SUTURING THREAD - Provided is a suture apparatus for selecting an appropriate suture from among various sutures and supplying the selected suture. In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a suture apparatus including: a suture keeping unit for keeping at least two types of sutures, and a suture supply unit for selectively supplying at least one of the at least two types of sutures. | 08-16-2012 |
20120245600 | ANCHOR DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH REPLACEABLE CARTRIDGE - A system and associated method for manipulating tissues and anatomical or other structures in medical applications for the purpose of treating diseases or disorders or other purposes. In one aspect, the system includes a delivery device configured to deploy and implant anchor devices for such purposes. | 09-27-2012 |
20120316581 | SPOOL CONFIGURED TO RETAIN SUTURE FOR A SUTURE SYSTEM - A suture system spool is configured to retain suture having a suture diameter and tension the suture between a distal and proximal end portions of a suturing tool. The spool includes a monolithically formed disc defining a central opening that provides the disc with an inside diameter. The disc includes a base and a flap joined with the base at the inside diameter, and the flap extends from the inside diameter to an outer periphery of the disc to define a cavity between the flap and the base. The flap is spaced away from the base at a location between the inside diameter and the outer periphery of the disc by a factor of at least two times the suture diameter, and the flap is spaced away from the base at the outer periphery of the disc by a distance that is approximately equal to the suture diameter. | 12-13-2012 |
20130103057 | LAPAROSCOPIC SURGICAL SYSTEM - A laparoscopic port closure device is described. The device allows for the deployment of a suture internally into an abdominal wall and the subsequent use of that deployed suture to effect a closing of the wound that was used for the port. The deployed suture may be used during the surgical procedure to effect a securing or anchoring of the device. | 04-25-2013 |
20130165954 | CONTINUOUS SUTURE PASSING INSTRUMENT - Suture passing devices that may be used in both open and endoscopic surgical procedures and that are designed to continuously deploy suture. The surgical device is provided with a handle assembly including an actuator in communication with a pair of advancement wheels and a built-in spool of suture (with a long length of material that can be fed through tissue and cut at desired locations). By moving the actuator linearly, the advancement wheels rotate, causing the spool to rotate and advance the suture through a shaft of the instrument to the tissue to be sutured, in a continuous manner. | 06-27-2013 |
20130245646 | MEANS AND METHODS FOR SUTURING TISSUE - A device for suturing tissue includes a handle that has a proximal end and a distal end. The device also includes a generally hollow suturing needle including a pointed distal end, an opposite proximal end and an inner lumen having an suture exit port through which the suture exits. The device further includes a suture dispensing mechanism disposed within the handle and including an actuator which when manipulated by a user is configured to advance suture material within the handle such that the suture material is guided into the inner lumen of the hollow suturing needle and exits through the suture exit port. The device includes a safety mechanism that shields at least a portion of the needle. | 09-19-2013 |
20140330293 | Medical Suturing Instrument - A medical suturing implement which greatly improves manipulability and operability is provided. In a suturing implement, the movement of an operating part is transferred with a time differential to a loop forming part and suture thread by a loop feeding/returning mechanism and a suture thread feeding mechanism, and after the loop is fed out from the tip end of a loop introduction needle, the suture thread is fed out from the tip end of a suture thread introduction needle. | 11-06-2014 |
20150012017 | SELF SUTURING TROCAR - A surgical incision suturing device particularly suited for minimally invasive surgical procedures comprising a suturing mechanism built into a trocar stern that enables a surgeon to stitch a patient by utilizing controls on the exposed top portion of the trocar. | 01-08-2015 |
20150142019 | MEDICAL SUTURING INSTRUMENT AND RELATED METHODS THEREFOR - A medical suturing instrument comprises: a loop introduction needle; a suture thread introduction needle into which suture thread is inserted; a housing for holding the loop introduction needle and the suture thread introduction needle substantially parallel a prescribed distance apart; a loop forming part which has a loop formed at the tip end thereof and is movably housed inside the loop introduction needle; a loop feed/return mechanism provided inside the housing for moving the loop forming part in the axial direction; a suture thread feed mechanism provided inside the housing for feeding out the suture thread on the tip end side; and a thread housing part provided in the housing for accommodating the suture thread which is supplied to the suture thread feed mechanism. | 05-21-2015 |
20160174966 | Reversible Surgical Suturing Device | 06-23-2016 |