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AssigneeInstitut National De La Sante Et De La Recherche Medicale (Inserm)
InventorsAlexis Bozorg Grayeli, Olivier Sterkers, Mathieu Miroir, Yann Nguyen, Evelyne Ferrary
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A tool for inserting fine tubular objects into the cochlea is provided. The tool has a gripping body, which forms a handle and ends in a tubular guide for the fine tubular object, and a pusher engaged in the tubular guide in order to push the fine tubular object out of the guide and into the cochlea. The tool is equipped with: an electronic control unit; motorized means controlled by the control unit in order to move the pusher; a force-measuring means connected to the control unit and arranged so as to be sensitive to a resistance force experienced by the fine tubular object during insertion into the cochlea and supplying a signal that can be exploited in order to estimate the resistance force; and means for indicating the resistance force connected to the control unit.
A tool for inserting fine tubular objects into the cochlea, having a gripping body, which forms a handle designed to be held in a hand by a user, said gripping body ending in a tubular guide in which the fine tubular object is to be arranged, the inserting tool having a pusher engaged in the tubular guide in order to push the fine tubular object out of the guide and insert it into the cochlea,
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