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US 12,740,773 B2Granted
Needle guide device for biopsy
AssigneeMedical Park Co., Ltd.
InventorHee Boong Park
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a needle guide device having a housing, a core needle, a guide needle assembly having a slide or a push button and a spring for biopsy, which is capable of easily separating a guide needle and a core needle.
Claims7
A needle guide device for biopsy, comprising:
- a housing comprising:
- a bore provided at a center, an entrance provided at a front of the housing to be connected to the bore, and a slide hole formed in a side of an outer surface to be connected to the bore;
- a core needle coupled to the housing to extend toward the front of the housing and provided with a tip at a front end configured to be inserted into tissue;
- a guide needle assembly comprising:
- a hub detachably accommodated in the bore of the housing through the entrance and including at a center with the bore through which the core needle passes, and
- a guide needle coupled to the bore of the hub and including at a center a passage through which the core needle passes;
- a slide button including at a center a locking hole in which a snap fit is to be locked, and coupled to the slide hole to be movable between a locking position and an unlocking position of the snap fit;
- and
- a spring mounted in the bore of the housing to apply an elastic force in a direction in which the hub is pushed out of the bore of the housing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.