Patents by Inventor Andreas Elisch
Andreas Elisch 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).
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Patent number: 10098623Abstract: A surgical device for stabilizing or immobilizing moved tissue or for positioning organs, especially a part of a beating heart, includes a flexible arm, especially a link arm, fixed or fixable to a base member which arm can be brought into different positions and/or attitudes and at the free end of which at least one retaining element is arranged, and comprising a tightening mechanism by which the arm can be fixed at a desired position. The tightening mechanism is tightened and/or released by means of a manually controllable external power source.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Aesculap AGInventors: Robert Vogtherr, Dominik Seyfried, Andreas Elisch, Thomas Beck, Michele Genoni, Dieter Weisshaupt, Pedro Morales
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Patent number: 9872676Abstract: The invention relates to a surgical retractor, in particular, for spreading a severed sternum, comprising a first retaining device and a second retaining device, which each have a spreader arm with at least one retaining element held thereon, a holding device for holding the retaining devices on each other, and a drive device with which the distance of the spreader arms from each other along a retraction direction is alterable for transfer to a spread position. In order to provide a retractor of this kind which, having a compact design, is easy to handle, it is proposed in accordance with the invention that the retaining devices each have a holding arm connected to the respective spreader arm, and both holding arms couple with the drive device and be displaceable via the drive device relative to each other and relative to the holding device along a displacement direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2015Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Aesculap AGInventors: Dieter Weisshaupt, Pedro Morales, Robert Vogtherr, Andreas Elisch, Peter Kleine
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Patent number: 9743916Abstract: A surgical positioning instrument for supporting and holding organs includes a preferably concave bearing portion and a supporting portion substantially rearward with respect to the bearing portion. Via the bearing portion an organ which is to be positioned can be received and via the supporting portion the surgical positioning instrument can be supported at an environment of the organ. Further, at least the bearing portion partly simulates a surface of the organ to be supported and is designed to be dimensionally stable.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2013Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: AESCULAP AGInventors: Zoltan Galajda, Dominik Seyfried, Theodor Lutze, Dieter Weisshaupt, Thomas Beck, Sonja Verse, Robert Vogtherr, Andreas Elisch, Pedro Morales, Omer Dzemali, Lajos Patonay
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Publication number: 20170215859Abstract: The invention relates to a surgical retractor, particularly for the retraction of a separated sternum, with a holding device and two spreader arms, wherein the spreader arms are mounted with one end on the holding device, at a distance from each other that is adjustable in a spreading plane, and at least two retaining elements for retention of bone material, for example of the separated sternum, are arranged on each of the spreader arms. To develop this retractor for sternotomy in such a way as to permit gentler opening of the separated sternum, it is proposed that at least one of the retaining elements is mounted such that its position can be modified in the retraction direction with respect to that end of the spreader arm mounted on the holding device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2017Publication date: August 3, 2017Inventors: Thomas Beck, Peter Kleine, Dieter Weisshaupt, Pedro Morales, Robert Vogtherr, Andreas Elisch
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Patent number: 9675332Abstract: The invention relates to a surgical retractor, particularly for the retraction of a separated sternum, with a holding device and two spreader arms, wherein the spreader arms are mounted with one end on the holding device, at a distance from each other that is adjustable in a spreading plane, and at least two retaining elements for retention of bone material, for example of the separated sternum, are arranged on each of the spreader arms. To develop this retractor for sternotomy in such a way as to permit gentler opening of the separated sternum, it is proposed that at least one of the retaining elements is mounted such that its position can be modified in the retraction direction with respect to that end of the spreader arm mounted on the holding device.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2014Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: Aesculap AGInventors: Thomas Beck, Peter Kleine, Dieter Weisshaupt, Pedro Morales, Robert Vogtherr, Andreas Elisch
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Publication number: 20160030031Abstract: A surgical device for stabilizing or immobilizing moved tissue or for positioning organs, especially a part of a beating heart, includes a flexible arm, especially a link arm, fixed or fixable to a base member which arm can be brought into different positions and/or attitudes and at the free end of which at least one retaining element is arranged, and comprising a tightening mechanism by which the arm can be fixed at a desired position. The tightening mechanism is tightened and/or released by means of a manually controllable external power source.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: February 4, 2016Applicant: Aesculap AGInventors: Robert Vogtherr, Dominik Seyfried, Andreas Elisch, Thomas Beck, Michele Genoni, Dieter Weisshaupt, Pedro Morales
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Publication number: 20160000419Abstract: The invention relates to a surgical retractor, in particular, for spreading a severed sternum, comprising a first retaining device and a second retaining device, which each have a spreader arm with at least one retaining element held thereon, a holding device for holding the retaining devices on each other, and a drive device with which the distance of the spreader arms from each other along a retraction direction is alterable for transfer to a spread position. In order to provide a retractor of this kind which, having a compact design, is easy to handle, it is proposed in accordance with the invention that the retaining devices each have a holding arm connected to the respective spreader arm, and both holding arms couple with the drive device and be displaceable via the drive device relative to each other and relative to the holding device along a displacement direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2015Publication date: January 7, 2016Inventors: Dieter Weisshaupt, Pedro Morales, Robert Vogtherr, Andreas Elisch, Peter Kleine
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Publication number: 20150335323Abstract: A surgical positioning instrument for supporting and holding organs includes a preferably concave bearing portion and a supporting portion substantially rearward with respect to the bearing portion. Via the bearing portion an organ which is to be positioned can be received and via the supporting portion the surgical positioning instrument can be supported at an environment of the organ. Further, at least the bearing portion partly simulates a surface of the organ to be supported and is designed to be dimensionally stable.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2013Publication date: November 26, 2015Inventors: Zoltan Galajda, Dominik Seyfried, Theodor Lutze, Dieter Weisshaupt, Thomas Beck, Sonja Verse, Robert Vogtherr, Andreas Elisch, Pedro Morales, Omer Dzemali, Lajos Patonay
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Publication number: 20150014315Abstract: The present invention discloses a security seal with a seal base with at least one locking projection and a seal head connected to the seal base with at least one blocking tab, whereby each blocking tab is movably connected to the seal head via at least one hinge element, together with a safety closure with a first closure part and a second closure part, which can be moved back and forth between an open position and a closed position relative to the first closure part, wherein the first closure part has a seating on which the seal base of a security seal can be engaged so that, when the second closure part is in the closed position, at least one blocking tab of the security seal at least partially overlaps the second closure part on the side of the second closure part opposite the first closure part, and additionally, a security container with a container tub, a lid and a safety closure, wherein either the first or second closure part is arranged on either the container tub or the lid, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2013Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: Dieter Weisshaupt, Stefan Thomas, Stefan Schuster, Andreas Elisch
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Publication number: 20150018624Abstract: The invention relates to a surgical retractor, particularly for the retraction of a separated sternum, with a holding device and two spreader arms, wherein the spreader arms are mounted with one end on the holding device, at a distance from each other that is adjustable in a spreading plane, and at least two retaining elements for retention of bone material, for example of the separated sternum, are arranged on each of the spreader arms. To develop this retractor for sternotomy in such a way as to permit gentler opening of the separated sternum, it is proposed that at least one of the retaining elements is mounted such that its position can be modified in the retraction direction with respect to that end of the spreader arm mounted on the holding device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2014Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: Thomas Beck, Peter Kleine, Dieter Weisshaupt, Pedro Morales, Robert Vogtherr, Andreas Elisch
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Publication number: 20140303664Abstract: The present application relates to an atraumatic sternal plate for haemostasis for a retractor with a pressure plate and a retaining device attached to the pressure plate. The pressure plate can be attached, by means of the retaining device, to either the blades of a retractor or to a sternal half of the patient, so that the pressure plate abuts the sagittal incision surface of a sternal half when spreading the sternum of a patient by means of a retractor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2012Publication date: October 9, 2014Applicant: AESCULAP AGInventors: Thomas Beck, Bernd Blender, Andreas Elisch, Theodor Lutze, Pedro Morales, Robert Vogtherr, Jürgen Wegmann, Dieter Weisshaupt
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Publication number: 20140296650Abstract: The present application discloses a telescopic retractor holder comprising a telescopic rod with an inner tube, an outer tube and a locking mechanism as well as a retractor rod. Said retractor rod has at its one end a retractor mounting, which is adapted for releasably gripping a retractor, and at its other end is fastened to the telescopic rod by means of a jointed connection. The telescopic rod can be supported on an operating table and has an actuating mechanism, by which the locking mechanism can be transferred from a first position, in which the inner tube and the outer tube of the telescopic rod are held immovably in relation to one another, into a second position, in which the inner tube and the outer tube of the telescopic rod are movable in relation to one another in the longitudinal direction of the tubes.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2012Publication date: October 2, 2014Inventors: Dieter Weisshaupt, Pedro Morales, Andreas Elisch, Peter Kleine, Dominik Seyfried, Robert Vogtherr
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Patent number: D757258Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2013Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: AESCULAP AGInventors: Dieter Weiβhaupt, Andreas Elisch, Stefan Schuster, Stefan Thomas, Gerold Zieris