Surgical instrument and connector for permitting independent assembly and disassembly of a mobile cutting element and a mobile grip from a fixed body of the instrument
AssigneeSoprane S.A.
InventorsThierry Loubens, Lionel Riou, Christophe Garin
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Abstract
A connecting device for a surgical instrument having at least one mobile cutting element which is reciprocally movable relative to a fixed jaw by operation of a resiliently loaded mobile grip wherein the connecting device includes an indexing mechanism which can be moved to a first position to permit mounting or removal of the mobile cutting element and a second position to permit independent mounting or removal of the mobile grip.
Claims20
A connecting device for a surgical instrument, comprising at least one mobile cutting element which is mounted to move reciprocally along a fixed jaw of the surgical instrument under action of a resiliently loaded mobile grip, and an indexing means for operatively connecting the mobile cutting element to the mobile grip, the indexing means being movable to a first angular position permitting mounting or removal of the mobile element relative to the fixed jaw, and a second angular position spaced from the first, for the mounting or removal of the mobile grip relative to the fixed jaw.
A surgical instrument comprising at least one mobile cutting element which is mounted to move reciprocally along a fixed jaw of the surgical instrument under action of a resiliently loaded mobile grip, and an indexing means for operatively connecting the mobile cutting element to the mobile grip, the indexing means being moveable to a first angular position permitting mounting or removal of the mobile cutting element, and a second angular position, spaced from the first, for the mounting or removal of the mobile grip.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.