Elongated-member-driving apparatus – Surgical stapler
Reexamination Certificate
2006-02-21
2008-12-02
Gerrity, Stephen F (Department: 3721)
Elongated-member-driving apparatus
Surgical stapler
C227S019000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07458494
ABSTRACT:
A surgical stapler has a body capable of containing a plurality of staples in an aligned state; a ram provided inside the body, having a central concave portion and pressure armatures on both sides of the concave portion; an anvil that, when the armatures of the ram contact both sides of a crown of a staple, forces the center of the crown into the concave portion of the ram; and a trigger rotatably supported on the body so as to cause relative movement between the ram and the anvil. The trigger as a moving member and the body as another member strike each other so as to produce a sound and/or a vibration indicating that a staple sandwiched between the ram and the anvil is bent by the advance of the anvil into the concave portion of the ram and bending of the staple is completed.
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Fukuda Masatoshi
Ina Takashi
Kamei Toshiharu
Matsutani Kanji
Farrar Joseph P.
Gerrity Stephen F
MANI, Inc.
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