Endoscopic medical device and method of use
AssigneeBoston Scientific Medical Device Limited
InventorsAbhishek BASU, Agrim MISHRA, Deepak Kumar SHARMA, Hitendra PUROHIT, Rohit ROHILLA
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Abstract
A medical device includes opposing first and second end effectors coupled together to move from an open configuration to a closed configuration, a first link with a distal end pivotally connected to a proximal end of the first end effector, the first link including a first slot at a proximal end of the first link, a second link with a distal end pivotally connected to a proximal end of the second end effector, and a first actuator pin slidable within the first slot.
Claims20
A method for performing an operation in a body with a medical device having opposing first and second end effectors coupled together, the method comprising:
- inserting the medical device in the body with the opposing first and second end effectors in a closed configuration, wherein the medical device includes a first link having a distal end pivotally connected at a first position on the first end effector at a proximal end of the first end effector via a throughhole, the first link including a first slot;
- a second link having a distal end pivotally connected at a first position on the second end effector at a proximal end of the second end effector via a throughhole;
- a first actuator pin slideable within the first slot;
- a clevis including a central longitudinal axis and a pair of distally extending and spaced apart arms, wherein a pivot pin is attached to each of the pair of arms, wherein each of the first and second end effectors is pivotally connected to the pivot pin at a second position of each of the first and second end effectors that is different than each of the first positions on the respective first and second end effectors;
- pivoting both of the first end effector and the second end effector about a pivot axis of the pivot pin to transform the first and the second end effectors from the closed configuration to an open configuration;
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- closing the first end effector relative to the second end effector, with tissue between the first end effector and the second end effector.
A method for performing an operation in a body with a medical device having opposing first and second end effectors coupled, the method comprising:
- inserting the medical device in the body with opposing first and second end effectors in a closed configuration, wherein the medical device includes a first link having a distal end pivotally connected at a first position on the first end effector at a proximal end of the first end effector via a throughhole, the first link including a first slot;
- a second link having a distal end pivotally connected at a first position on the second end effector at a proximal end of the second end effector via a throughhole;
- a first actuator pin slideable within the first slot;
- a pivot pin distal to the first link and the second link, wherein each of the first and second end effectors is pivotally connected to the pivot pin at a second position of each of the first and second end effectors that is different than each of the first positions on the respective first and second end effectors;
- pivoting both of the first end effector and the second end effector about a pivot axis of the pivot pin to transform the first and the second end effectors from the closed configuration to an open configuration;
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- closing the first end effector relative to the second end effector, with tissue between the first end effector and the second end effector.
A method for performing an operation in a body, the method comprising:
- inserting first and second end effectors into the body when the first and the second end effectors are in a closed configuration;
- pivoting both of the first end effector and the second end effector about a pivot axis to transform the first and the second end effectors from the closed configuration to an open configuration;
- either one or both of:
- (1) further pivoting the first end effector about the pivot axis as the second end effector does not pivot about the pivot axis, and (2) pivoting the first end effector toward a longitudinal axis of the first and second end effectors and, at the same time, pivoting the second end effector away from the longitudinal axis, with the first and the second end effectors in the open configuration;
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- closing the first end effector relative to the second end effector, with tissue between the first end effector and the second end effector.
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