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US 10,368,875 B2Granted
Surgical clip
AssigneeAesculap AG
InventorsThomas Scholten, Gunnar Wanke, Erick Drost
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Abstract
A surgical clip for a surgical clip applicator includes at least one pair of clip arms. Each clip arm has a distal end and a proximal end. The two clip arms are connected to each other at the proximal ends of the clip arms and form a clip throat. A tangent angle between a tangent to a neutral fiber of a clip arm and a perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the clip increases over the entire length of the clip arm substantially continuously.
Claims16
A surgical clip for a surgical clip applicator, the surgical clip comprising:
- at least one pair of clip arms, wherein each clip arm has a distal end and a proximal end, the clip arms connected to each other at their proximal ends to form a clip throat,
- a tangent angle between a tangent to a neutral fiber of at least one clip arm and a perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the surgical clip increases over an entire length of said at least one clip arm substantially continuously,
- wherein the tangent angle has, on a length on said at least one clip arm of 22%, a value of at least 60°.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.