Surgical instrument for minimally invasive surgery
AssigneeSutter Medizintechnik GmbH
InventorsDirk Weitkamp, Thomas Dunz, Lothar Mitzlaff, Michael Thoss, André Fichtner
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Abstract
A surgical instrument comprising two jaw portions, at least one of which is rotatably mounted via an axis of rotation at a distal end of a shaft and is connected via a traction cable or a push rod to a gripping portion at the proximal end of the shaft, wherein the jaw formed by the jaw portions is held in an open or closed position by means of a suspension when the instrument is at rest.
Claims7
A surgical instrument (100) comprising two jaw portions (102), at least one of which is rotatably mounted via an axis of rotation (302) at a distal end of a shaft (104) and is connected via a traction cable or a push rod (304) to a gripping portion (106) at a proximal end of the shaft (104), wherein jaws formed by each of the jaw portions (102) is held in an open or closed position by means of a suspension when the instrument (100) is at rest, wherein the suspension comprises spring elements (306) which each connect one of the jaw portions (102) to the traction cable or the push rod (304), and, wherein the spring elements (306) are each connected to the traction cable or the push rod (304) by at least one of:
- cohesively (308) and integrally.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.