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Title:
SURGICAL INSTRUMENT
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2003310629
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide an easy-to-handle surgical instrument allowing a free bend of the tip of a pipe part inserted in a body, capable of extensively executing treatment work in the body, and allowing realization of miniaturization of a drive mechanism, in a surgical operation using an endoscope.

This surgical instrument comprises: a casing; the pipe part extending from the casing, inserted into the body; a hollow neck part pivotally supported by the tip of the pipe part, swingable as the neck part bends relatively to the pipe part; a hollow rod retractably penetrating the pipe part, bending the neck part according to a protrusion amount from the pipe part tip; a neck part drive means housed in the casing, imparting a prescribed advance/retreat amount to the hollow rod; an operation tool installed to a swing end of the neck part; and a flexible drive rod penetrating the neck part and the hollow rod, connected to the operation tool.


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Inventors:
MITSUISHI MAMORU
WARISAWA SHINICHI
NAKAZAWA TOJI
Application Number:
JP2002127181A
Publication Date:
November 05, 2003
Filing Date:
April 26, 2002
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
MITSUISHI MAMORU
WARISAWA SHINICHI
THK CO LTD
International Classes:
A61B17/28; A61B1/00; A61B17/32; (IPC1-7): A61B17/28; A61B1/00; A61B17/32
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Tetsuro Ide (3 others)