Patents by Inventor Alexander Disch

Alexander Disch 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: 8839954
    Abstract: The invention relates to a medical clip carrier device for retention and/or mounting of at least one medical clip, in particular a ligature clip, comprising at least one clip receptacle in which a clip is retainable in a mounted position, and a securing device with at least one securing member for detachably securing a clip in the at least one clip receptacle. The clip receptacle comprises an insertion opening for insertion of a clip into the clip receptacle and removal of the clip therefrom. The at least one securing member is constructed in the form of a retaining projection which protrudes at least partially into the insertion opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Aesculap AG
    Inventor: Alexander Disch
  • Patent number: 8627955
    Abstract: A surgical clip cartridge is provided, having a housing member, a plurality of C-shaped surgical clips stored in the housing member, and a plurality of compartments provided on the housing member, each compartment being adapted for receiving a respective one of the surgical clips. A holding member is arranged on the housing member on opposite sides of each compartment, each of the holding members being adapted to be pivoted from a holding position into a release position and, in the holding position, the holding members on opposite sides of each compartment fix the respective surgical clip in the respective compartment and, in the release position, the holding members are removed from the respective surgical clip. A releasable, resilient latching connection is provided for fixing the holding members in the holding position relative to the housing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Aesculap AG
    Inventors: Dieter Weisshaupt, Alexander Disch
  • Patent number: 8585718
    Abstract: In order to simplify the structure of the cartridge and reduce the structural size in a cartridge with a plurality of C-shaped ligature clips, with a housing accommodating ligature clips arranged in a row one behind the other and parallel to one another, with a transport element, which can be slid forward and back relative to the housing in the direction of the row and which when sliding forward and back relative to the housing causes at least one ligature clip to advance towards a discharge end of the cartridge, it is proposed that the ligature clips each have two legs connected by means of a bridge section and are divided by a longitudinal slit into two adjacent sections, which are connected to one another in the region of the free ends of the legs, and that the transport element passes through the ligature clips arranged in a row in the space between the two adjacent sections of the ligature clips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Aesculap AG
    Inventors: Alexander Disch, Rupert Mayenberger
  • Patent number: 8403138
    Abstract: In order to improve the fixing of the surgical clips in the housing member in a surgical clip cartridge with a housing member and with a plurality of C-shaped surgical clips stored therein, having two limbs connected to one another by a web, the housing member comprising a plurality of compartments each to receive a surgical clip, with a support face adapted to the contour of the surgical clip in each compartment, against which support face a respective surgical clip abuts with its inner face, with holding members arranged on the housing member, which can be pivoted from a holding position into a release position and, in the holding position, fix the surgical clip in its compartment and, in the release position, are removed from the surgical clip, it is proposed that openings are provided in the limbs, in which the holding members engage in the holding position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Aesculap AG
    Inventors: Dieter Weisshaupt, Alexander Disch
  • Patent number: 8312992
    Abstract: The invention relates to a medical or surgical clip holder, comprising at least one holding device for holding at least one medical or surgical clip, the at least one holding device comprising at least two holding surface areas movable relative to each other for holding the at least one clip with force locking and/or positive locking, wherein the at least one holding device comprises at least one restoring device for moving the at least two holding surface areas relative to each other into a force-neutral position in which the at least one restoring device holds the at least two holding surface areas in a predefined position relative to each other following deflection of the at least two holding surface areas relative to each other from an initial position into a deflected position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Aesculap AG
    Inventor: Alexander Disch
  • Publication number: 20120175481
    Abstract: The invention relates to a medical or surgical clip holder, comprising at least one holding device for holding at least one medical or surgical clip, the at least one holding device comprising at least two holding surface areas movable relative to each other for holding the at least one clip with force locking and/or positive locking, wherein the at least one holding device comprises at least one restoring device for moving the at least two holding surface areas relative to each other into a force-neutral position in which the at least one restoring device holds the at least two holding surface areas in a predefined position relative to each other following deflection of the at least two holding surface areas relative to each other from an initial position into a deflected position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: Aesculap AG
    Inventor: Alexander Disch
  • Publication number: 20120048759
    Abstract: In order to simplify the structure of the cartridge and reduce the structural size in a cartridge with a plurality of C-shaped ligature clips, with a housing accommodating ligature clips arranged in a row one behind the other and parallel to one another, with a transport element, which can be slid forward and back relative to the housing in the direction of the row and which when sliding forward and back relative to the housing causes at least one ligature clip to advance towards a discharge end of the cartridge, it is proposed that the ligature clips each have two legs connected by means of a bridge section and are divided by a longitudinal slit into two adjacent sections, which are connected to one another in the region of the free ends of the legs, and that the transport element passes through the ligature clips arranged in a row in the space between the two adjacent sections of the ligature clips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: Aesculap AG
    Inventors: Alexander Disch, Rupert Mayenberger
  • Publication number: 20110087244
    Abstract: In order to improve the fixing of the surgical clips in the housing member in a surgical clip cartridge with a housing member and with a plurality of C-shaped surgical clips stored therein, having two limbs connected to one another by a web, the housing member comprising a plurality of compartments each to receive a surgical clip, with a support face adapted to the contour of the surgical clip in each compartment, against which support face a respective surgical clip abuts with its inner face, with holding members arranged on the housing member, which can be pivoted from a holding position into a release position and, in the holding position, fix the surgical clip in its compartment and, in the release position, are removed from the surgical clip, it is proposed that openings are provided in the limbs, in which the holding members engage in the holding position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: Aesculap AG
    Inventors: Dieter Weisshaupt, Alexander Disch
  • Publication number: 20100274263
    Abstract: In order to maximise the pivoting range of the arms in a surgical instrument for the placement of C-shaped ligature clips having two legs connected to one another by means of a bridge section with two clamping jaws, which in an open position receive an open ligature clip between them and are movable into a closed position by approaching one another and in so doing close the ligature clips by their legs approaching one another, with two elastically deformable arms, each bearing a clamping jaw at its distal end, and with a slide, which is displaceable relative to the arms in the longitudinal direction thereof, and which abuts against the abutment surfaces of the arms and as a result of this abutment against the abutment surfaces elastically pivots the arms relative to one another in a pivoting plane out of a starting position into an end position upon displacement of the slide relative to the arms, in association with a small size of the instrument, it is proposed that at least over a part of their length and a
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: Aesculap AG
    Inventors: Alexander Disch, Rupert Mayenberger
  • Publication number: 20100160940
    Abstract: A surgical instrument has a shaft, an end effector comprising at least one movably mounted tool element and defining a longitudinal axis, and a force transmitting member mounted in the shaft for movement in the distal and proximal directions for transmitting an actuating force introduced at a proximal end of the instrument onto the end effector in order to move the at least one tool element from a first tool element position to a second tool element position and/or vice versa. The at least one tool element is pivotably mounted on a bearing shaft held on the shaft. The at least one tool element is connected by at least one articulation member, at least a section of which is flexible, to the force transmitting member in order to transmit the actuating force from the force transmitting member onto the at least one tool element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicants: Aesculap AG, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg
    Inventors: Theodor Lutze, Dirk Schauer, Alexander Disch, Holger Reinecke, Claas Mueller