Surgery – Instruments – Suturing needle
Patent
1996-01-23
1998-08-11
Buiz, Michael
Surgery
Instruments
Suturing needle
430320, A61B 1706
Patent
active
057921806
ABSTRACT:
There is provided a high bend strength double pointed surgical needle, or surgical incision member, which includes a suture hole intermediate the points and a pair of crimping bulges adjacent the suture hole. The high strength surgical needle further includes transverse slots adjacent each pointed end. There is also disclosed a method of forming a plurality of high bend strength surgical needles from a sheet of needle stock including coating both sides of the sheet of needle stock with a photoresist, exposing both sides of the sheet of needle stock to light in the image of a plurality of surgical needle blanks connected at either pointed end to carrier strips, subjecting the sheet so exposed to an etchant to remove all unexposed metal and removing the surgical needle blanks from the sheet
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Buiz Michael
Lewis William W.
United States Surgical Corporation
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