US6007556A
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Surgical irrigation pump and tool system
Assignee: Stryker Corp
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Filing: 1998-06-08
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Granted: 1999-12-28
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Expires: 2018-06-08
Abstract
Abstract An irrigation surgical tool system comprises a motorized handpiece, a tool for insertion in the handpiece, a console including a mounting plate and peristaltic pump rotor and a tube set including a cassette installable on the console for peristaltic pumping of irrigation liquid to the tool. Passages in the tool allow irrigation liquid flow, between a fixed outer tube and rotating inner tube of the tool, to a surgical site, through windows in the tool inner and outer tubes. Application of suction to the tool enables withdrawal through the inner tube of irrigation and surgical debris from the surgical site.
Inventors
- 👤 Joseph J. Kablik
- 👤 Barry J. Kauker
- 👤 Juan Isaias Perez
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-23 05:49
CPC Classifications
A; A61; A61B; A61B17/00; A61B17/32; A61B17/320016; A61B17/32002; A61M; A61M1/00; A61M1/71; A61M1/72; A61M1/77; A61M1/774; A61M3/00; A61M3/02; A61M3/0201; A61B2217/00; A61B2217/002; A61B2217/005; A61B2217/007; A61M1/772; A61M2205/00; A61M2205/12; A61M3/0233; A61M3/0254; A61M3/0258; A61M3/0279; A61M3/0283
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 14
Claim 1
Independent Claim
406 words
An elongate irrigated surgical tool engagable with and powerable by a powered surgical handpiece of the kind having a casing and a rotatable drive member, said tool comprising: a tubular radially outer housing including a mounting hub for fixed mounting on a surgical handpiece casing and a forward extending outer tube; a tubular radially inner rotor including a rotor hub rotatably drivable by a powered surgical handpiece rotatable drive member for rotatably driving said rotor, and an inner tube fixedly projecting forward from and rotatable with said rotor hub, said rotor hub and said inner tube having communicating coaxial bores defining a common radially inner fluid passage; said inner and outer tubes having partially closed front end portions and circumferentially aligned, sidewardly opening windows at forward portions thereof, at least one of said windows having an edge for working patient tissue upon rotation of said inner tube within said outer tube, said windows communicating with said common radially inner fluid passage, said common radially inner fluid passage extending at least to said windows; said tubular inner rotor having a suction connection connectable to a suction source for sucking fluid from said windows through said common radially inner fluid passage, said outer housing having an irrigation liquid connection connectable to an irrigation liquid source; an irrigation liquid flow passage disposed radially between said inner and outer tubes and extending from adjacent said mounting hub toward said windows; said inner tube forward portion being in snug rotative bearing contact with said outer tube forward portion and therewith forming a rotate bearing for rotatably supporting said inner tube in said outer tube, said inner tube having an elongate intermediate portion extending rearward from said forward portion thereof and being radially spaced from said outer tube to define at least an intermediate portion of said irrigation liquid flow passage; and said inner tube forward portion including an axially elongate liquid channel in an outer periphery thereof at said rotate bearing for extending said irrigation liquid flow passage forward to said windows and therewith for supplying irrigation liquid (1) through said windows to a surgical site and alternately (2) to said inner tube while the latter is connected to a suction source for floating surgical debris from said windows rearward in said common radially inner fluid passage, said channel indenting but not radially perforating said outer periphery of said inner tube forward portion at a part thereof rearward of said windows.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
406 words
An elongate irrigated surgical tool engagable with and powerable by a powered surgical handpiece of the kind having a casing and a rotatable drive member, said tool comprising: a tubular radially outer housing including a mounting hub for fixed mounting on a surgical handpiece casing and a forward extending outer tube; a tubular radially inner rotor including a rotor hub rotatably drivable by a powered surgical handpiece rotatable drive member for rotatably driving said rotor, and an inner tube fixedly projecting forward from and rotatable with said rotor hub, said rotor hub and said inner tube having communicating coaxial bores defining a common radially inner fluid passage; said inner and outer tubes having partially closed front end portions and circumferentially aligned, sidewardly opening windows at forward portions thereof, at least one of said windows having an edge for working patient tissue upon rotation of said inner tube within said outer tube, said windows communicating with said common radially inner fluid passage, said common radially inner fluid passage extending at least to said windows; said tubular inner rotor having a suction connection connectable to a suction source for sucking fluid from said windows through said common radially inner fluid passage, said outer housing having an irrigation liquid connection connectable to an irrigation liquid source; an irrigation liquid flow passage disposed radially between said inner and outer tubes and extending from adjacent said mounting hub toward said windows; said inner tube forward portion being in snug rotative bearing contact with said outer tube forward portion and therewith forming a rotate bearing for rotatably supporting said inner tube in said outer tube, said inner tube having an elongate intermediate portion extending rearward from said forward portion thereof and being radially spaced from said outer tube to define at least an intermediate portion of said irrigation liquid flow passage; and said inner tube forward portion including an axially elongate liquid channel in an outer periphery thereof at said rotate bearing for extending said irrigation liquid flow passage forward to said windows and therewith for supplying irrigation liquid (1) through said windows to a surgical site and alternately (2) to said inner tube while the latter is connected to a suction source for floating surgical debris from said windows rearward in said common radially inner fluid passage, said channel indenting but not radially perforating said outer periphery of said inner tube forward portion at a part thereof rearward of said windows.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
45 words
The tool of Claim 1 wherein said channel is defined by an axially elongate chordal flat in said outer periphery of said inner tube forward portion which extends rearward in a direction away from said windows toward said elongate intermediate portion of said inner tube.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
83 words
The tool of claim 2 wherein said inner and outer tubes define a common longitudinal axis, said inner tube window having said tissue working edge and being axially aligned with said outer tube window, said tissue working edge upon rotation of said inner tube being movable past said outer window for shearing tissue, and said chordal flat being disposed to direct irrigation liquid flow forwardly along said outer periphery of said inner tube forward portion to a location immediately axially adjacent said windows.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
328 words
An elongate irrigated surgical tool engagable with and powerable by a powered surgical handpiece of the kind having a casing and a rotatable drive member, said tool comprising: a tubular radially outer housing including a mounting hub for fixed mounting on a surgical handpiece casing and a forward extending outer tube, said outer tube having a forward portion including a window; a tubular radially inner rotor including a rotor hub rotatably drivable by a powered surgical handpiece rotatable drive member for rotatably driving said rotor, and an inner tube fixedly projecting forward from and rotatable said rotor hub, said rotor hub and said inner tube having communicating coaxial bores defining a common radially inner fluid passage extending at least to said window; said inner tube having a forward portion including a part adjacent said window for working patient tissue upon rotation of said inner tube in said outer tube, said window and said tissue working part communicating with said common radially inner fluid passage; said tubular inner rotor having a suction connection connectable to a suction source for sucking fluid from said window through said common radially inner fluid passage, said outer housing having an irrigation liquid connection connectable to an irrigation liquid source; an irrigation liquid flow passage disposed radially between said inner and outer tubes and extending from said irrigation liquid connection toward said window and said tissue working part; said inner tube forward portion being in snug rotative bearing contact with said outer tube forward portion for rotatably supporting said inner tube in said outer tube, said inner tube having an elongate intermediate portion extending rearward from said forward portion thereof and being radially spaced from said outer tube to define at least an intermediate portion of said irrigation liquid flow passage; and an axially elongate chordal flat disposed in an outer periphery of said inner tube forward portion in said snug bearing contact and defining a forward extension of said irrigation liquid flow passage.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
328 words
An elongate irrigated surgical tool engagable with and powerable by a powered surgical handpiece of the kind having a casing and a rotatable drive member, said tool comprising: a tubular radially outer housing including a mounting hub for fixed mounting on a surgical handpiece casing and a forward extending outer tube, said outer tube having a forward portion including a window; a tubular radially inner rotor including a rotor hub rotatably drivable by a powered surgical handpiece rotatable drive member for rotatably driving said rotor, and an inner tube fixedly projecting forward from and rotatable said rotor hub, said rotor hub and said inner tube having communicating coaxial bores defining a common radially inner fluid passage extending at least to said window; said inner tube having a forward portion including a part adjacent said window for working patient tissue upon rotation of said inner tube in said outer tube, said window and said tissue working part communicating with said common radially inner fluid passage; said tubular inner rotor having a suction connection connectable to a suction source for sucking fluid from said window through said common radially inner fluid passage, said outer housing having an irrigation liquid connection connectable to an irrigation liquid source; an irrigation liquid flow passage disposed radially between said inner and outer tubes and extending from said irrigation liquid connection toward said window and said tissue working part; said inner tube forward portion being in snug rotative bearing contact with said outer tube forward portion for rotatably supporting said inner tube in said outer tube, said inner tube having an elongate intermediate portion extending rearward from said forward portion thereof and being radially spaced from said outer tube to define at least an intermediate portion of said irrigation liquid flow passage; and an axially elongate chordal flat disposed in an outer periphery of said inner tube forward portion in said snug bearing contact and defining a forward extension of said irrigation liquid flow passage.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
34 words
The tool of claim 4 wherein said axially elongate chordal flat extends rearward in a direction away from said window and said tissue working part toward said elongate intermediate portion of said inner tube.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
42 words
The tool of claim 4 wherein said inner and outer tubes have partially closed front end portions and said inner tube tissue working part comprises a window, said inner and outer tube windows opening sidewardly and being circumferentially aligned with one another.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
23 words
The tool of claim 4 wherein said inner tube is circumferentially continuous, unbroken and imperforate along the major length of said chordal flat.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
276 words
An elongate irrigated surgical tool engagable with and powerable by a powered surgical handpiece of the kind having a casing and a rotatable drive member, said tool comprising: a tubular radially outer housing including a mounting hub for fixed mounting on a surgical handpiece casing and a forward extending outer tube; a tubular radially inner rotor including a rotor hub rotatably drivable by a powered surgical handpiece rotatable drive member for rotatably driving said rotor, and an inner tube fixedly projecting forward from and rotatable with said rotor hub, said rotor hub and said inner tube having communicating coaxial bores defining a common radially inner fluid passage; said inner and outer tubes having partially closed front end portions and circumferentially aligned, sidewardly opening windows at forward portions thereof, at least one of said windows having an edge for working patient tissue upon rotation of said inner tube within said outer tube, said windows communicating with said common radially inner fluid passage; said tubular inner rotor having a suction connection connectable to a suction source for sucking fluid from said windows through said common radially inner fluid passage, said outer housing having an irrigation liquid connection connectable to an irrigation liquid source; said inner and outer tubes being in snug rotative bearing contact with one another for rotatably supporting said inner tube in said outer tube; and an irrigation liquid flow passage disposed radially between said inner and outer tubes and extending from said irrigation liquid connection to said windows, a portion of said irrigation liquid flow passage being defined by an axially elongate chordal flat disposed in an outer periphery of said inner tube forward portion.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
276 words
An elongate irrigated surgical tool engagable with and powerable by a powered surgical handpiece of the kind having a casing and a rotatable drive member, said tool comprising: a tubular radially outer housing including a mounting hub for fixed mounting on a surgical handpiece casing and a forward extending outer tube; a tubular radially inner rotor including a rotor hub rotatably drivable by a powered surgical handpiece rotatable drive member for rotatably driving said rotor, and an inner tube fixedly projecting forward from and rotatable with said rotor hub, said rotor hub and said inner tube having communicating coaxial bores defining a common radially inner fluid passage; said inner and outer tubes having partially closed front end portions and circumferentially aligned, sidewardly opening windows at forward portions thereof, at least one of said windows having an edge for working patient tissue upon rotation of said inner tube within said outer tube, said windows communicating with said common radially inner fluid passage; said tubular inner rotor having a suction connection connectable to a suction source for sucking fluid from said windows through said common radially inner fluid passage, said outer housing having an irrigation liquid connection connectable to an irrigation liquid source; said inner and outer tubes being in snug rotative bearing contact with one another for rotatably supporting said inner tube in said outer tube; and an irrigation liquid flow passage disposed radially between said inner and outer tubes and extending from said irrigation liquid connection to said windows, a portion of said irrigation liquid flow passage being defined by an axially elongate chordal flat disposed in an outer periphery of said inner tube forward portion.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
52 words
The tool of claim 8 wherein said inner and outer tubes define a common longitudinal axis, and said chordal flat defines a forward extension of said liquid irrigation flow passage and directs irrigation liquid flow forwardly along said outer periphery of said inner tube to a location immediately axially adjacent said windows.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
53 words
The tool of claim 8 wherein said inner and outer tube forward portions are in snug rotative bearing contact with one another for rotatably supporting said inner tube in said outer tube and said chordal flat is disposed in said outer periphery of said inner tube forward portion in said snug bearing contact.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
192 words
The tool of claim 8 wherein said inner tube forward portion includes: (1) a windowed part extending the length of said inner tube window, said windowed part including a circumferentially discontinuous peripheral wall, said wall having an opening radially therethrough, said opening defining a circumferential discontinuity forming said inner tube window; and (2) a further part extending rearward from said windowed part which has an axially extending circumferentially continuous peripheral wall, said circumferentially continuous peripheral wall having a circular inner peripheral surface and an outer peripheral surface, said outer peripheral surface including a semi-circular major surface portion having spaced length edges and a flat minor surface portion circumferentially connecting said spaced length edges, said circumferentially continuous peripheral wall further having a constant wall thickness extending radially between said inner peripheral surface and said semi-circular major surface portion and a circumferentially varying wall thickness extending radially between said inner peripheral surface and said flat minor surface portion, said circumferentially varying wall thickness increasing gradually in circumferentially opposite directions from a central circumferential part of said flat minor surface portion toward said spaced length edges, said flat minor surface portion defining said chordal flat.
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