Title:
NEEDLE-SUTURE ASSEMBLING ELECTRONIC CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3857285
Kind Code:
B
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic control device for performing the automatic high-speed needle-suture assembling.
SOLUTION: The electronic control device comprises a storage means to store the lower fracture threshold and the upper fracture threshold, a swaging means capable of adjusting the swage deformation in response to first and second signals and swaging an operational needle suture receiving terminal around the suture, a means to obtain the fracture value of an n-th sample for a swage-bond part by carrying out the tensile fracture-inspection of each n-th needle of a plurality of successively arranged needles, and a comparator means which compares the fracture value of each n-th sample with the lower fracture threshold, and gradually increases the first signal for the subsequent needles to gradually increase the swage deformation so that the fracture value of the n-th sample is higher than the lower fracture threshold.
Inventors:
Demarest, David
Hodulik, Michael G.
Hodulik, Michael G.
Application Number:
JP2004000261333
Publication Date:
September 22, 2006
Filing Date:
September 08, 2004
Export Citation:
Assignee:
ETHICON INC
International Classes:
B21G1/02; A61B17/04; A61B17/06; B21G1/08; B21J5/06; A61B17/00; B21G1/00; A61B17/04; A61B17/06; B21J5/06; A61B17/00; (IPC1-7): B21G1/02; B21J5/06; //A61B17/04
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