US 10,869,657 B2Granted

Surgical retractor systems and illuminated cannulae

AssigneeDePuy Synthes Products, Inc.

InventorsDouglas Raymond, Connie Marchek, Thomas W. Higginbotham, Anthony R. Carlone, Katherine Herard Ray, Timothy Beardsley

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Abstract

This invention includes surgical retractors that comprise an expandable frame that includes at least two base components, a connector, and at least two retractor blades attached to the expandable frame. Also included are surgical retractors that comprise a housing component that includes a cylindrical portion and a contiguous blade portion, assemblies comprising a surgical retractor assembled to at least one obtruator, illuminated surgical cannulas, and methods of using the same during a surgical procedure.

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Dependent claims

A surgical retractor, comprising:

a first retractor blade and a second retractor blade;
a first connector assembled to a proximal end of the first retractor blade and a proximal end of the second retractor blade, wherein at least the first retractor blade or the second retractor blade is movable along a line that is parallel to a length of the first connector;
a third retractor blade and a fourth retractor blade;
and
a second connector assembled to a proximal end of the third retractor blade and a proximal end of the fourth retractor blade, wherein at least the third retractor blade or the fourth retractor blade is movable along a line that is parallel to a length of the second connector, and wherein at least the first connector or the second connector is movable along a line that intersects the first connector and the second connector;
wherein the second and fourth retractor blades move together with respect to the first and third retractor blades.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/072,211Filed 5 Nov 2013 · continuation
Priority: 18 Dec 2003
Published: US 2014/0058210 A127 Feb 2014
Granted: 22 Dec 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

A61B 17/0218
For holding wounds open, e.g. retractors; Tractors: for minimally invasive surgery
A61B 17/02
Surgical instruments, devices or methods: for holding wounds open, e.g. retractors; Tractors
A61B 17/3417
Trocars; Puncturing needles: details of tips or shafts, e.g. grooves, expandable, bendable; Multiple coaxial sliding cannulas, e.g. for dilating
A61B 17/3421
Details of tips or shafts, e.g. grooves, expandable, bendable; Multiple coaxial sliding cannulas, e.g. for dilating: cannulas

Family

Application60/530,565Us provisional application · filed 18 Dec 2003
Application11/016,347Parent of this continuation · filed 17 Dec 2004
Application12/241,963Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Sep 2008
US 7,491,168 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 17 Feb 2009
US 2014/0058210 A1Pre-grant publication · published 27 Feb 2014
US 8,602,984 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2005/0159651 A1Published application
US 2009/0018400 A1Published application
US 10,869,657 B2This patent

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