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US 9,320,651 B2Granted
Surgical knife handle and knife
AssigneesCore Surgical Limited, e-Medix Limited
InventorsRichard Packard, Simon Checkley, Ian Hutchinson
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Abstract
A surgical knife handle comprising a handle body (102) and a blade receiving portion (104) defined at a first end of the handle body, which blade receiving portion comprises a blade receiving bore and a blade support (118) extending to a first side of the blade receiving bore. A surgical knife comprising a handle, a blade defined at a first end of the handle and a blade support extending to a first side of the blade.
Claims12
A surgical knife comprising:
- a blade component comprising a blade neck having a first side and a second side opposite to the first side, and a cutting head extending from the second side of the blade neck at an angle of less than 180° relative to the second side of the blade neck;
- a handle body, having a blade receiving bore in a face at a first end of the handle body, the blade component being embedded in the blade receiving bore proximate the blade neck;
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- a blade support extending from the face along and adjacent to the first side of the blade neck and supporting the blade neck, the blade support being defined by the handle body extending further on a first side of the blade receiving bore than on a second side of the blade receiving bore, and the blade support having an outside surface;
- wherein a closed perimeter distinct from the blade support, that is entirely on the face, defines the second side of the blade receiving bore and defines where the outside surface of the blade support extends from the face.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.