US 12,083,013 B2
Bendable cardiac surgery instruments
Felice Guiseppe Carlino, Borgomasino (IT); and Monica Francesca Achiluzzi, Chivasso (IT)
Assigned to CORCYM S.r.l., Saluggia (IT)
Appl. No. 16/754,309
Filed by Corcym S.r.l., Milan (IT)
PCT Filed Mar. 27, 2018, PCT No. PCT/IB2018/052064
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 7, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/069145, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 11, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/569,509, filed on Oct. 7, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0237510 A1, Jul. 30, 2020
Int. Cl. A61F 2/24 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/107 (2006.01); A61M 25/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/2427 (2013.01) [A61B 5/1076 (2013.01); A61B 5/6852 (2013.01); A61B 2505/05 (2013.01); A61M 25/0054 (2013.01)] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bendable medical instrument comprising:
a handle at a proximal end of the bendable medical instrument;
a modular distal shaft including a plurality of vertebrae configured to bend and situated near a distal end of the bendable medical instrument, wherein each vertebra has a rhomboidal shape including a major dimension and a minor dimension;
a bendable internal rod operatively coupled to the handle and disposed through at least some of the plurality of vertebrae, the bendable internal rod having a modular cell structure and configured to be rotated relative to the modular distal shaft via actuation at the handle; and
a distal tip coupled to the modular distal shaft at the distal end, wherein the plurality of vertebrae are configured to bend to position the distal tip in a patient and the bendable internal rod is configured to bend with the plurality of vertebrae.