Patents Assigned to Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
  • Tubular medical instrument
    Patent number: 8915939
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tubular medical instrument having a hollow shaft, a handle positioned on the proximal end of the shaft, and at least one tool actuation element that is positioned in the hollow shaft and has on its distal end a tool, wherein the tool actuation element can be coupled with at least one actuation mechanism of the handle to actuate the tool and wherein the tool actuation element and the hollow shaft can be detachably connected to one another by a coupling mechanism. To create a coupling mechanism that is essentially free of any play and is simple to operate, it is proposed with the invention that the stopping of the coupling mechanism between the tool actuation element and the hollow shaft should be dependent on the position of the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Uwe Renger, Martin Blocher, Uwe Bacher
  • Method and apparatus for soft tissue fixation to bone
    Patent number: 8906060
    Abstract: A bone anchor having a rivet having a proximal end and a head distal to an elongate body, a sleeve having an internal channel for slidably receiving the body, and an expansion nut having a channel therethrough for slidably receiving said body, proximal of said sleeve is provided. The sleeve further has a shoulder provided within the internal channel in the region of the proximal end for engaging the expansion nut. The rivet, sleeve and expansion nut are arranged such that movement of the rivet from a first position to a second position causes the sleeve to cam over the rivet head and expansion nut until said expansion nut engages said shoulder, forcing the sleeve to expand into a wall of a bone hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Rickey Hart
  • Medical instrument with endoscope
    Patent number: 8906014
    Abstract: A medical instrument comprises a shaft, a work element at the distal end of the shaft, a handle with at least one movable part for actuating the work element and a securing element for securing an endoscope which has an endoscope shaft and an eyepiece. The distal end of the endoscope is able to be arranged in the area of the distal end of the shaft, and the proximal end of the endoscope is able to be arranged in the area of the handle of the instrument, and the endoscope is displaceable in the longitudinal direction of the shaft. The securing element is designed in such a way that the endoscope can be arranged on the outside of the instrument, the eyepiece of the endoscope, in the state when the latter is arranged on the instrument, lying outside the longitudinal axis of the shaft of the instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Uwe Bacher, Gérard Barki
  • Conduit reservoir for intake of an electrical, optical or fluid conduit
    Patent number: 8899507
    Abstract: A conduit reservoir for intake of an electrical or optical cable or of a hose or other conduit to conduct or transmit at least either a fluid, a signal or electric current includes a carrier that can rotate about a predetermined rotation axis, conduit devices on the carrier and a conduit path defined by the conduit devices and having a first portion, a second portion and a third portion, such that the conduit path is defined by the conduit devices in such a way that a conduit originally inserted in the second portion of the conduit path, upon a rotation of the carrier in a first rotation direction about the rotation axis, is simultaneously inserted in the first portion and in the third portion (31) of the conduit path. The conduit devices are configured to permit a movement of a conduit along the conduit path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Omid Abri, Svenia Karge, Julian Verkin
  • Device for providing an access opening in a body, in particular for a spinal operation
    Publication number: 20140350346
    Abstract: A device for providing an access opening in a body, in particular for a spinal operation, comprised of a tubular device body (12) that extends along a longitudinal axis (L) of a device body, said body having a distal end (14) that is to be positioned inside a body and a proximal end (16) that is to be positioned outside a body, wherein in the region of the proximal end (16) an optics-carrier arrangement (28) with a movable optics-carrier (36) is positioned or can be positioned to have a path of motion (B) about the longitudinal axis of the device body, characterized in that that the optics carrier arrangement (28) comprises a guideway element (30) that carries the optics carrier (36), said guideway element having a guideway region (34) that can be positioned by means of pivoting about a swivel axis (S) in an operating position in the region of the proximal end (16) of the device body (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martin OBERLÄNDER, Roland E. Stark
  • Medical resector having a rotatable high-frequency electrode and drive unit therefor
    Patent number: 8894645
    Abstract: A drive unit for a rotatable high-frequency electrode of a medical resector for cutting, ablating, or coagulating human or animal tissue includes an engine device for generating a rotation movement and a coupling device for transmitting the rotation movement generated by the engine device to an axis coupled with the rotatable high-frequency electrode when the drive unit is coupled with the medical resector. The drive unit is configured to provide on the coupling device a rotation frequency in a range from 10 rpm to 200 rpm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jacques Hamou, Markus Simmen, Otmar Stillhard
  • Spacer for a medical instrument
    Patent number: 8894677
    Abstract: The spacer serves for limiting the depth of insertion of a shaft of a medical instrument into a body of a patient. The spacer has a distal abutment for bearing on a body of a patient. The spacer has a spacer element extending along a length section of the shaft of the medical instrument. A device for releasably mounting the spacer on the shaft has an aperture via which the spacer can be mounted laterally to the shaft. For it the aperture is designed as a lateral slit aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Diethelm Wallwiener, Sara Brucker
  • Tool for a micro-invasive surgical instrument
    Patent number: 8882750
    Abstract: A tool, which is detachably coupleable with a shaft for a micro-invasive surgical instrument, includes an articulated device on which a jaw member or other active device is affixed, a connecting component that is rotatably connected with the articulated device and that includes a coupling device for detachable coupling with a distal end of a shaft, a transmission rod to transmit at least either a force or torque from one proximal end of a shaft detachably coupled with the tool to the jaw member or other active device, and a locking device that is coupled with the transmission rod in such a way that the locking device can be rotated with respect to the transmission rod but not slid axially, so that the locking device is mounted in the connecting component in such a way that it can be axially slid but not rotated in relation to the connecting component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jochen Stefan, Daniel Kaercher, Uwe Bacher
  • Medical instrument
    Patent number: 8876805
    Abstract: A transmission adapter for a medical instrument having a shaft, a transmission element that can move within the shaft and an operating device with a first part, which can be mechanically rigidly coupled with a proximal end of the shaft, and a second part, which can move with respect to the first part, includes a first coupling for releasable mechanical coupling with the second part of the operating device and a second coupling for releasable mechanical coupling with a proximal end of the transmission element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Daniel Kaercher, Jochen Stefan
  • Endoscope with adjustable viewing angle
    Patent number: 8870758
    Abstract: An endoscope with adjustable viewing angle includes a light outlet device on the distal end of the endoscope to radiate illuminating light at an angle of illumination and a light conductor to transmit illuminating light to the light outlet device such that the light outlet device can be moved to adjust the angle of illumination in relation to the endoscope and such that a flexible portion of the light conductor is configured and positioned in order to be elastically reshaped when the light outlet surface is moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jan Dahmen, Fang Lei
  • Adjustable holding apparatus for an endoscope
    Patent number: 8870141
    Abstract: An adjustable holding apparatus for an endoscope or other medical device having a proximal end and a distal end, the adjustable holding apparatus having a device for holding an endoscope or other medical device that includes a number of arm segments between the proximal end and the distal end, a number of lockable joints that each connect two of the number of arm segments with one another in jointed fashion, and a compensation device for at least partial compensation of the weight impact of the holding apparatus in a pivoting or sliding of at least one arm segment in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Omid Abri, Josef Reinauer
  • Assembly and method for attaching particularly a vagina to a spine
    Patent number: 8870741
    Abstract: Assembly for attaching a patient's vaginal apex or uterus or rectum to her/his spine, includes a first tube having a length adapted to the distance from the outer wall of the patient's abdomen to the sacrum. The first tube has a distal end for engagement with the sacrum, an opposite proximal end, and a first passage from the distal to the proximal end thereof, a second tube having a length that at least equals the length of the first tube. The second tube has a distal end and an opposite proximal end, at least one attachment element with a distal end for attachment to the sacrum and a proximal end for attachment of an end of connection element for connection to the patient's vaginal apex or uterus or rectum, such as one or more threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG.
    Inventor: Robertus Mattheus Felix Van Der Weiden
  • Exoscope
    Patent number: D716445
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: KARL STORZ GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: George Berci, Christoph Leidolt
  • Endoscope
    Patent number: D716942
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: KARL STORZ GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Peter Eisenkolb, Florian Wanner
  • Laparoscopic port
    Patent number: D717432
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: KARL STORZ GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Joel Leroy, Michael Sauer, Sebastian Wagner, Thomas Weishaupt, Daniela Wiest
  • Handle for medical device
    Patent number: D717949
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: KARL STORZ GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Paul Peschke, Josef Reinauer
  • Angled medical screwdriver
    Patent number: D718440
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: KARL STORZ GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Regis Besse, Martin Oberlaender, Michael Sauer
  • Handle for medical instrument
    Patent number: D718441
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: KARL STORZ GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Carus, Frank Doll
  • Sealing element
    Patent number: D720068
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Martin Oberlaender
  • Needle holder
    Patent number: D720069
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Daniel Kaercher, Jochen Stefan