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US 10,639,121 B2Granted
Surgical instrumentation set
AssigneeNovastep
InventorsLoïc Girod, Rémi Le Besque, Nicholas E Zelensky
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Abstract
A surgical instrumentation assembly including: a storage tube having a service opening, a sealing member for closing off the service opening, a plurality of surgical instruments for temporary use, and a holder comprising a plurality of attachment elements configured to detachably attach the surgical instruments to the holder. The storage tube contains the holder and the sterile surgical instruments when the sealing member closes off the service opening.
Claims9
A surgical instrumentation set comprising at least:
- one storage tube having a service opening,
- one obturating member configured to obturate the service opening,
- several surgical instruments intended for a temporary use, and
- one support including several fastening elements configured to fasten the surgical instruments to the support in a detachable manner, the support and the surgical instruments forming a subset when the surgical instruments are fastened to the support;
- the storage tube being configured to house the subset, so as to store the subset in a sterile condition when the obturating member obturates the service opening, and the subset being shaped so as to be extracted from the storage tube through the service opening;
- wherein the support comprises a handle adapted to be manipulated by an operator, said handle having a locking portion which is configured to selectively attach or detach one of the surgical instruments to the handle and having longitudinal grooves formed at the outer surface of the handle and extending from the locking portion to the opposite end of the handle wherein each longitudinal groove is adapted to house a portion of a respective surgical instrument so as to fasten this surgical instrument by elastic snap-fit, and further comprising a ribbon which is arranged around the handle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.