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US 6,887,197 B2Granted
Side loading surgical retractor having offset cavity
AssigneeBoss Instruments, Ltd., Inc.
InventorBurns Phillips
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Abstract
A surgical retractor has a body and a socket laterally receiving a connector head. The socket cavity is offset from a loading axis extending to the mouth of the slot. The slot laterally receives the connector head as directed towards the socket cavity where it is retained in a locked configuration. The socket cavity is offset from the loading axis.
Claims19
A surgical retractor comprising:
- a connector head;
- a retractor body having a top, bottom, and sides, and a laterally loading mouth in one of the sides of the retractor body leading to a socket cavity for receiving the connector head, said mouth having a loading axis extending perpendicularly to the one of the sides having the mouth, said loading axis angularly offset by an angular offset from the loading axis said angular offset non-parallel to the loading axis;
- with a leg formed as a part of the retractor body adjacent the mouth and the socket cavity;
- and
- a displaceable lock configured to selectively retain and release connector head within the socket cavity in a locked position;
- and wherein at least a portion of the leg at least assists in preventing outward lateral movement of the connector head from the socket cavity parallel to the loading axis;
- and
- said lock normally biased in the locked position.
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A surgical retractor comprising:
- a connector head;
- a socket body having a lateral loading mouth for receiving the connector head along a side of the socket body along a loading axis;
- a slot within the socket body;
- said slot connecting the mouth to a socket cavity, said slot angularly offset along an offset axis from the loading axis, said slot adjacent to a leg formed in the socket body adjacent to the socket cavity and mouth;
- and
- a displacable lock configured to selectively move at least partially within the slot in a locked position and having a released position allowing the connector head to move out of the socket cavity;
- and when in the locked position, said lock spaced from the mouth;
- and
- the leg assisting in retaining said connector head in the locked position from lateral movement out of the socket cavity towards the mouth in a parallel direction to the loading axis.
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A surgical retractor comprising:
- a connector head;
- a socket body having a leg and a lateral loading mouth for receiving a the connector head;
- a slot and a socket cavity within the socket body, said slot connected to the mouth, said slot communicating the socket cavity with the mouth and spacing the socket cavity from the mouth, said mouth having a loading axis extending therethrough in the lateral direction, and said socket cavity angularly offset at an angle from the loading axis at an angular offset, said socket cavity symmetrically oriented relative to the angular offset, and said angular offset non-parallel to the loading axis, and said leg obstructing outward lateral movement in a direction parallel to the loading axis;
- and a displaceable lock moveable at least partially within the slot into a locked position, and a release position to release the connector head from the socket cavity.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.