Patents by Inventor Gert Otten

Gert Otten 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: 7785335
    Abstract: A device for clamping off organic tissue has a tissue clamp with clamping bars in holders. A proximal clamping bar can be displaced in a guide groove of an application crosspiece by a tappet, while the distal clamping bar maintains its position until the tissue has been clamped off. The clamping bars have guide pin, or the distal clamping bar has a fixation shoulder. The pins or shoulder fit into crosswise grooves in the application crosspiece, and thus the clamping bars can be inserted into them vertically. The proximal clamping bar has a holder pin on its base that engages into a holder bore of the distal clamping bar. This produces a force-fit and shape-fit connection with this bore, while simultaneously clamping off the organic tissue. The guide pins shear off if the force required to clamp off the organic tissue is exceeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Inventor: Gert Otten
  • Publication number: 20090054917
    Abstract: A device for clamping off organic tissue has a tissue clamp with clamping bars in holders. A proximal clamping bar can be displaced in a guide groove of an application crosspiece by a tappet, while the distal clamping bar maintains its position until the tissue has been clamped off. The clamping bars have guide pin, or the distal clamping bar has a fixation shoulder. The pins or shoulder fit into crosswise grooves in the application crosspiece, and thus the clamping bars can be inserted into them vertically. The proximal clamping bar has a holder pin on its base that engages into a holder bore of the distal clamping bar. This produces a force-fit and shape-fit connection with this bore, while simultaneously clamping off the organic tissue. The guide pins shear off if the force required to clamp off the organic tissue is exceeded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Inventor: Gert Otten
  • Publication number: 20060047290
    Abstract: Device for clamping organic tissue, in particular blood vessels in minimal invasive surgery, with an application base for holding two clamping bars of absorbing material which, in their final position, are connectable to become a tissue clamp. The tissue clamp can be separated from the latter by means of an inner pusher. The application base (2; 23) perpendicular to its longitudinal guide slot is equipped with two clamping bars and these can be merged to a tissue clamp. The application bar and clamping bars have guides, holders and fixatives which serve to precisely align the elements of the device and their unclamping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Publication date: March 2, 2006
    Inventor: Gert Otten
  • Patent number: 5704925
    Abstract: Medical instrument for injecting liquids into a hollow organ and/or drawing off liquids from a hollow organ, in particular a bile duct. Clamping apparatus are associated with the hollow needle of the instrument, this instrument being constructed as a tubular shaft, and the tissue of the hollow organ can be securely enclosed by these clamping apparatus between an entrance opening in the hollow organ and an outlet opening of the hollow needle in such a way that no liquid can escape between the tissue and the hollow needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: Aerztliche Mechanik Udo Lindeke & Sohn
    Inventors: Gert Otten, Carsten Lindeke
  • Patent number: 5628758
    Abstract: A medical instrument for placement of a knot, in particular, for operating within closed spaces. With the use of such instrument, the thread can be held, guided and/or manipulated at least on one side of the knot and adjacent thereto by an instrument head in such a way that the knot can be pushed into the vicinity of a target point and placed exactly in the target point by spreading at least one free end of the thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1997
    Assignee: Aerztliche Mechanik Udo Lindeke & Sohn
    Inventors: Gert Otten, Carsten Lindeke