Surgical clamp and surgical clamp installation tool
AssigneeAdvanced Bariatric Technology, LLC
InventorsJesús R. Armenteros, Moises Jacobs, C. Kenneth French, Garrett Barker
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Abstract
A surgical clamp may have two elongated members with a bight portion that joins the two elongated members at a proximal end of the clamp and that may bias the two elongated members in an open position at a distal end. The bight portion may have one or more engagement features, such as a slotted aperture or other engagement or coupling feature. A clasp mechanism at the distal end of the clamp may have a male or first component disposed on or adjacent one of the two elongated members and a female or second component disposed on or adjacent the other of the two elongated members at the distal end of the clamp.
Claims20
A surgical clamp having a proximal end and a distal end and comprising:
- a first elongated member having a distal end and a proximal end;
- a second elongated member having a distal end and a proximal end;
- a bight portion joining the first and second elongated members at the proximal end of the first elongated member of the surgical clamp and the proximal end of the second elongated member of the surgical clamp, the bight portion including a flexible hinge having an opening formed through a thickness of at least a portion of the flexible hinge, the opening extending in a direction from the proximal end of the surgical clamp toward the distal end of the surgical clamp;
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- a closure mechanism operable to retain the surgical clamp in an at least partially closed position.
A bariatric clamp having a proximal end and a distal end, the bariatric clamp comprising:
- a first elongated member having a first closure portion disposed adjacent a first end of the first elongated member;
- a second elongated member having a second closure portion disposed adjacent a first end of the second elongated member;
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- a bight member having a flexible hinge positioned adjacent a second end of the first elongated member, and a second end of the second elongated member, the flexible hinge having an opening formed through a thickness of at least a portion a portion of the flexible hinge, the opening extending in a direction from the proximal end of the bariatric clamp toward the distal end of the bariatric clamp,
- wherein the first elongated member and second elongated member comprise a partition-forming section of the bariatric clamp when the bariatric clamp is closed by the first closure portion disposed adjacent the first end of the first elongated member and the second closure portion disposed adjacent the first end of the second elongated member, and wherein a passage-forming section is formed adjacent the bight member of the bariatric clamp.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.