Handle and cartridge system for medical interventions
AssigneeTeleflex Life Sciences Limited
InventorsCurtis Yarra, Christopher Zaler, Alexander Charles Gordon, Erik Noel, Calvin Lam, Kevin Alexander Lessard, Jolene Cutts, Maheshwara Rao
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Abstract
An apparatus for transferring mechanical energy in a handle to a cartridge to manipulate tissue or anatomical structures within the body of a human or animal subject for the purpose of treating diseases or disorders. The handle and cartridge contain safety interlocks.
Claims19
A cartridge for a system that includes a handle and the cartridge, where the handle is configured to accept a series of such cartridges and impart mechanical energy to the cartridge to deliver an implant, comprising:
- a knob on the cartridge that moves from an unlocked position to a locked position such that the locked position secures the cartridge to the handle;
- a slidable cutter block connected to a slidable pusher block via an extension spring, wherein the cutter block and the pusher block are configured to slide in a linear direction within a body of the cartridge;
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- a pivotable implant actuator within the body of the cartridge and engaged with the pusher block such that the implant actuator prevents the pusher block from sliding when the implant actuator is in a first position,
- wherein the spring is in an extended position exerting a force tending to draw the cutter block and the pusher block toward each other.
A cartridge for delivering an implant, comprising:
- a knob on the cartridge that moves from an unlocked position to a locked position such that the locked position secures the cartridge to a handle;
- a cutter block connected to a pusher block via an extension spring, wherein the cutter block and the pusher block are configured to move in a linear direction within a body of the cartridge;
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- a pivotable implant actuator within the body of the cartridge and engaged with the pusher block such that the implant actuator prevents the pusher block from moving when the implant actuator is in a first position, wherein the spring is in an extended position exerting a force tending to draw the cutter block and the pusher block toward each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.