Title:
NEEDLE - SUTURE ASSEMBLY, PACKAGE DEVICE AND AUTOMATIC PACKAGING METHOD
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPH0833636
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
PURPOSE: To enable automatic work for packaging surgical needles by employing a rotatable suture attaching dial and the like having plural number of multi-axis grippers automatically holding surgical needles for alloting to the plural number of treatment stations. CONSTITUTION: This device, which automatically attaches a suture to a surgical needle, comprises a sectional station 100 sectionally transferring the surgical needle to a gripper furnished on a dial 150, an automatic fiber attaching station 200 which inserts the suture into the surgical needle to cut and attach, an automatic pulling testing station 300 and a discharging station 600 around the rotatable suture attaching dial 150. At the discharging station 600, an arm-shaped surgical needle is transferred to a package tray of a rotatable suture winding/ packaging turret 50 and manufactured as a package after assembled through eight work stations 450, 470, 550,... respectively for investigating, checking, winding, paper inserting and others.
Inventors:
DEBITSUDO DEMARESUTO
ROBAATO BII DANKAN
MAATEIN SOBERU
TEIMOSHII PII RENIHAN
UIRIAMU RATAN
JIYON EFU BURANCHI
MAIKERU JII HODEYURITSUKU
DENISU PII YOSUTO
ROBAATO BII DANKAN
MAATEIN SOBERU
TEIMOSHII PII RENIHAN
UIRIAMU RATAN
JIYON EFU BURANCHI
MAIKERU JII HODEYURITSUKU
DENISU PII YOSUTO
Application Number:
JP2110495A
Publication Date:
February 06, 1996
Filing Date:
January 13, 1995
Export Citation:
Assignee:
ETHICON INC
International Classes:
A61B17/04; A61B17/06; A61L17/00; B65H54/56; B65H67/044; A61B17/00; A61B19/00; A61B19/02; (IPC1-7): A61B17/04; A61L17/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Hiroaki Tazawa (1 person outside)
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