US 12,201,559 B2
Medical vacuum tweezer and tissue suturing device including the same
Wan Kyun Chung, Pohang-si (KR); Ikjong Park, Iksan-si (KR); Hong Kyun Kim, Daegu (KR); and Hyung Gon Shin, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to POSTECH RESEARCH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, Pohang-si (KR); and KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, Daegu (KR)
Filed by POSTECH Research and Business Development Foundation, Pohang-si (KR); and Kyungpook National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Daegu (KR)
Filed on Sep. 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/477,658.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0132173 (KR), filed on Oct. 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0110788 A1, Apr. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. A61F 9/007 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 9/007 (2013.01) 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vacuum tweezer comprising:
a first plate and a second plate of which first and second needle holes facing each other are at lower ends of each of the first and second plates respectively, and are positioned to face each other; and
a first side plate and a second side plate connecting and fixing the first plate and the second plate to form a tube penetrated upward and downward and including a recess portion that is concave downward at a higher position than an imaginary needle path line connecting the first and second needle holes, respectively,
wherein the first side plate and the second side plate are disposed higher than the imaginary needle path line from the lower ends of each of the first and second plates.