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AssigneesJoimax GmbH, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
InventorsBernhard Kneifel, Rainer Körber, Günter Herrmann, Klaus-Peter Brhel, Ekaterina Notheis, Wolfgang Ries
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A device and method are provided for clips or staples as an effective substitute for suture material when joining body tissue or covering body tissue with a mesh, such as is particularly used in fracture operations. The device for applying a medical lockable clip (1) in a tissue area, includes a) an automatic advancing mechanism oriented in the direction of the tissue area from a starting position and having a guide in the advancing direction for the clip, wherein the clip has two gripper teeth oriented in the advancing direction, b) a stop for the advancing mechanism, and c) a locking element displaceable with the advancing mechanism and having a locking mechanism on the clip side for locking the clip, wherein d) the locking element is displaceable together with and parallel to the advancing mechanism, and e) the stop does not limit the motion of the locking element.
A device for the application of a medical lockable clip in a tissue area, the device comprising:
A process for applying a medical lockable clip in a tissue area, the process comprising the steps of:
A process in accordance with claim 20 wherein a compressed air supply is likewise opened pneumatically in case of pneumatic drive of the feed mechanism.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.