Surgical instrument with jaws

Abstract

Abstract A surgical instrument with distally arranged jaws which can be moved relative to one another, proximally arranged handles which can be manually operated relative to one another, and a transmission device with overload protection means that transmits the operating force from the handles to the jaws, is characterised in that the overload protection means has a force-transmitting component of an Ni/Ti alloy that is superelastic at the handling temperature and which is dimensioned such that it reaches the plateau of the stress-strain curve, at which it expands superelastically with approximately constant stress, before or when the overload is reached.

Inventors

• 👤 Wolfgang Rauen
• 👤 Ulrike Glunz
• 👤 Rainer Dr Benecke
• 👤 Manfred Moeller

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