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US 5,683,415 AGranted
Surgical needle
AssigneeEthicon, Inc.
InventorDieter Brunken
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Abstract
The invention relates to a surgical needle with a suture material or thread fixed to the end opposite to the perforation tip, characterized in that the puncturing tip and the area of the needle following onto the latter is made up to approximately 50% of its length from bare or surface-untreated metal, whereas the surface of the remaining part of the needle and up to the thread shoulder is chemically or electrolytically of a coating dulled or coloured in a continuous manner or with minor interruptions.
Claims10
A metal, surgical needle, comprising:
- an elongated needle member, said member having a distal end, a proximal end, and an outer surface;
- a piercing tip extending from the distal end of the needle member;
- and,
- suture mounting means in the proximal end of the needle member,
- wherein the needle has an uninterrupted, non-reflective light-absorbing coating over the outer surface extending from the proximal end of the needle member up to about 50% of the length of needle member, and, the remaining outer surface of the needle is bar metal.
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A metal, surgical needle, comprising:
- an elongated needle member, said member having a distal end, a proximal end, and outer surface;
- a piercing tip extending from the distal end of the needle member;
- and
- suture mounting means in the proximal end of the needle member,
- wherein the needle has an uninterrupted, non-reflective, light-absorbing, dulled treatment on the outer surface extending from the proximal end of the needle member up to about 50% of the length of needle member, and, the remaining outer surface of the needle is bar metal.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.