US 2006/0123651 A1 · Parallel handle system and method for designing a parallel handle system

Abstract

A parallel handle, parallel handle system and method for designing parallel handles for a hand for use with tools or control mechanisms, that includes a handle having a radial section having a side for receiving the thumb and having a side for receiving the index finger, the radial section having a surface for engaging a portion of the palmar surface of the hand, a middle section having a side for receiving at least a portion of the middle finger and at least a portion of the ring finger and having a surface that avoids placing undue pressure on a surface of the hand located over the carpal tunnel, and an ulnar section having a side for receiving the small finger and having a surface for engaging a portion of the palmar surface of the hand so as to position the end of the small finger.

Claims1

Dependent claims

A method for designing a handle that corresponds to the sizes of a hand, comprising the steps of:

setting the hand in a T position so that the tips of the of the long fingers of the hand are substantially in alignment;
measuring the distance across the metacarpal bones of the long fingers of a hand from the radial side to the ulnar side of the palm of the hand thereby defining a width of the handle;
and
setting the distance from the ulnar palmar line to the distal side of the carpal tunnel zone equal to or less than the distance from the ulnar palmar line to the radial palmar line such that undue pressure on the carpal tunnel zone is avoided.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

11/325,433Filed 5 Jan 2006

Priority

24 Oct 2001

Published

15 Jun 2006

Term ends

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Classification41 codes

A61B 17/30
Surgical instruments, devices or methods: surgical pincettes, i.e. surgical tweezers without pivotal connections
A61B 17/00
Surgical instruments, devices or methods
A61B 17/1606
Chisels; Rongeurs; Punches; Stamps: of forceps type, i.e. having two jaw elements moving relative to each other
A61B 17/1611
The two jaw elements being linked to two elongated shaft elements moving longitudinally relative to each other: the two jaw elements being…

Family

Application60/330,527Us provisional application · filed 24 Oct 2001

Application10/279,111Continuation in part · filed 24 Oct 2002

Application10/692,340Division · filed 24 Oct 2003

Application10/692,340Continuation in part · filed 24 Oct 2003

Application11/325,433Division · filed 5 Jan 2006

Application11/325,433Continuation in part · filed 5 Jan 2006

US 2003/0074766 A1Published application

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Parallel handle system and method for designing a parallel handle system

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Parallel handle system and method for designing a parallel handle system

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Abstract

Claims1