US 12,256,924 B2
Needle-suture combination, needle holder and surgical suture apparatus
Mark-Paul Franciscus Maria Vrancken Peeters, The Hague (NL)
Assigned to Mellon Medical B.V., The Hague (NL)
Appl. No. 17/049,358
Filed by Mellon Medical B.V., The Hague (NL)
PCT Filed Apr. 25, 2019, PCT No. PCT/NL2019/050242
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 21, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/209108, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 31, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2020824 (NL), filed on Apr. 25, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0236118 A1, Aug. 5, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/062 (2006.01); A61B 17/06 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/0625 (2013.01) [A61B 17/06004 (2013.01); A61B 17/06066 (2013.01); A61B 2017/06019 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0609 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A needle holder to hold a needle-suture combination that comprises a needle having a first needle end and a second needle end opposite to the first needle end and a suture connected to the needle between the first needle end and the second needle end, wherein the first needle end and the second needle end each comprise a needle point, a locking groove and a needle end stop surface between the locking groove and the needle point, wherein the needle holder comprises:
a needle channel arranged to receive the first needle end or the second needle end, the needle channel comprising an inlet to introduce the respective needle end into the needle channel, and
a needle locking element to be received in the locking groove of the respective needle end to lock the respective needle end in the needle channel,
wherein the needle channel comprises a needle channel stop surface to cooperate with the needle end stop surface of the respective needle end of the needle-suture combination,
wherein the needle channel comprises a needle holding part having a first diameter and in which the needle channel stop surface is provided, and a tissue receipt channel part between the needle holding part and the inlet of the needle channel, the tissue receipt channel part having a second diameter in the range of 1.2 to 2.5 times the first diameter, and
wherein the needle channel comprises at the inlet an alignment funnel to align the needle end with the needle channel.