NEEDLE AND SUTURE ASSEMBLY, PACKAGING DEVICE AND AUTO-PACKAGING

Japanese Patent JP3633984

B2

PURPOSE: To enable automatic work for packaging surgical needles by employing a rotatable suture attaching dial and the like having plural number of multi-axis grippers automatically holding surgical needles for alloting to the plural number of treatment stations.
CONSTITUTION: This device, which automatically attaches a suture to a surgical needle, comprises a sectional station 100 sectionally transferring the surgical needle to a gripper furnished on a dial 150, an automatic fiber attaching station 200 which inserts the suture into the surgical needle to cut and attach, an automatic pulling testing station 300 and a discharging station 600 around the rotatable suture attaching dial 150. At the discharging station 600, an arm-shaped surgical needle is transferred to a package tray of a rotatable suture winding/ packaging turret 50 and manufactured as a package after assembled through eight work stations 450, 470, 550,... respectively for investigating, checking, winding, paper inserting and others.

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David Demarest
Robert B Duncan
Martin Sobel
Timothy P. Lenihan
William Rattan
John F Branch
Michael G. Hodrick
Dennis P. Yost

JP2110495A

March 30, 2005

January 13, 1995

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ETHICON, INCORPORATED

A61B17/04; A61B17/06; A61L17/00; B65H54/56; B65H67/044; A61B17/00; A61B19/00; A61B19/02; (IPC1-7): A61B17/04; A61L17/00

JP63299834A
JP1317430A
JP288048A

Hiroaki Tazawa
Konobu Kato

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