Patents by Inventor Adolf Gallinat

Adolf Gallinat has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6709445
    Abstract: A forceps serves in particular for excising myomas located intramurally in the uterus and including a forceps jaw having two branches which are pivotable about a common axis in a working plane for opening and closing the forceps jaw and which bear against one another with structured gripping surfaces with a closed, empty forceps jaw. The branches are each provided over a part of their length with a tooth-shaped back profile and a longitudinal cutting blade on their outer back sides lying opposite the gripping surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Richard Wolf GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Boebel, Frank Knodel, Adolf Gallinat
  • Patent number: 6682477
    Abstract: A hysteroscope for carrying out endoscopic operations in the uterus by way of an auxiliary instrument, consists of an inner shank and an outer shank surrounding the inner shank whilst forming a longitudinal channel, of a first fitting for supplying rinsing fluid to be supplied through the inner shank into the uterus and of a second fitting for removing rinsing fluid from the uterus via the longitudinal channel. Furthermore there are provided a third fitting on which the auxiliary instrument is introducable into the hysteroscope and is further distally movable through a working channel, and deflection means with which the distal end region of the auxiliary instrument is elastically laterally deflectable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Richard Wolf GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Boebel, Sybille Brüstle, Dieter Metsch, Adolf Gallinat
  • Publication number: 20010021861
    Abstract: A forceps serves in particular for excising myomas located intramurally in the uterus and comprises a forceps jaw having two branches which are pivotable about a common axis in a working plane for opening and closing the forceps jaw and which bear against one another with structured gripping surfaces with a closed, empty forceps jaw. The branches are each provided over a part of their length with a tooth-shaped back profile on their outer back sides lying opposite the gripping surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2001
    Publication date: September 13, 2001
    Applicant: Richard Wolf GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Boebel, Frank Knodel, Adolf Gallinat
  • Publication number: 20010018550
    Abstract: A hysteroscope for carrying out endoscopic operations in the uterus by way of an auxiliary instrument, consists of an inner shank and an outer shank surrounding the inner shank whilst forming a longitudinal channel, of a first fitting for supplying rinsing fluid to be led through the inner shank into the uterus and of a second fitting for removing rinsing fluid from the uterus via the longitudinal channel. Furthermore there are provided a third fitting on which the auxiliary instrument is introducable into the hysteroscope and is further distally movable through a working channel, and deflection means with which the distal end region of the auxiliary instrument is elastically laterally deflectable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2001
    Publication date: August 30, 2001
    Applicant: Richard Wolf GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Boebel, Sybille Brustle, Dieter Metsch, Adolf Gallinat