US 2021/0275322 A1Published application

Implant delivery device

AssigneeEmbody, Inc.

InventorsR. Sean Churchill, Robert J. Ball, Douglas Snell, Isaac Running, Christopher K. Jones, Brandon Bryant

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Abstract

An implant delivery device may include an implant holding portion proximate the distal end, the implant holding portion being configured to retain a sheet-like implant during implantation of the implant. In addition, the implant holding portion may be configured to receive the implant with a fixed implant supporting flange member configured to support the implant on one side, and a movable implant supporting flange member. The movable implant supporting flange member may be configured to be slidable between a distal position and a proximal position, wherein, in the distal position, the movable implant supporting flange member and secures the implant against the fixed implant supporting flange member, and in the proximal position, the movable implant supporting flange member is withdrawn from the distal end of the implant delivery device, thus enabling release of the implant.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An implant delivery device, comprising:

a handle disposed at a proximal end of the implant delivery device and configured to be grasped by a user;
and
an outer shaft extending from the handle to a distal end of the implant delivery device;
the implant delivery device including an implant holding portion proximate the distal end of the implant delivery device, the implant holding portion being configured to retain a sheet-like implant during implantation of the implant;
and
the implant holding portion being configured to receive the implant between a fixed implant supporting flange member associated with the outer shaft and configured to support the implant on one side, and a movable implant supporting flange member;
wherein the movable implant supporting flange member is configured to be slidable between a first, distal position and a second, proximal position;
wherein, in the first, distal position, the movable implant supporting flange member secures the implant against the fixed implant supporting flange member, thus holding the implant in an unfurled configuration;
and
wherein, in the second, proximal position, the movable implant supporting flange member is withdrawn from the distal end of the implant delivery device, thus enabling release of the implant.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/174,011Filed 11 Feb 2021
Priority: 11 Feb 2020
Published: 9 Sep 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

A61B 17/3468
Trocars; Puncturing needles: for implanting or removing devices, e.g. prostheses, implants, seeds, wires
A61F 2/4601
Special tools for implanting artificial joints: for introducing bone substitute, for implanting bone graft implants or for compacting them in the…
A61B 17/3421
Details of tips or shafts, e.g. grooves, expandable, bendable; Multiple coaxial sliding cannulas, e.g. for dilating: cannulas
A61B 17/3423
Cannulas: access ports, e.g. toroid shape introducers for instruments or hands

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Application62/972,775Us provisional application · filed 11 Feb 2020
US 11,259,939 B2Related patent
US 2021/0275322 A1This patent

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