Locking mechanism for medical devices

Details Locking mechanism for medical devices Locking mechanism for medical devices

1989-09-01

1991-06-04

Kundrat, Andrew V.

Joints and connections

Articulated members

Lockable at fixed position

403 55, 403 24, F16C 1106

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050209337

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus useful in surgery for holding retractors and other surgical instrumentation in a number of different positions required by a surgeon for the performance of a surgical procedure, including advanced sensing and regulation of retraction pressures and position; and incorporating a force amplification method to drive a locking mechanism in the supporting structure that utilizes a constrained, substantially incompressible, flexible solid material to yield a mechanism that is suitable for clinical use.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2672313 (1954-03-01), Poole
patent: 3638973 (1972-02-01), Poletti
patent: 3675953 (1972-07-01), Glatz
patent: 4807618 (1989-02-01), Auchinleck et al.

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