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Ultrasonic cutting tool for medical use

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  • Patent Grant
  • D344799
  • Patent Number
    D344,799
  • Date Filed
    Tuesday, June 11, 1991
    33 years ago
  • Date Issued
    Tuesday, March 1, 1994
    30 years ago
  • US Classifications
    Field of Search
    • US
    • D08 47
    • D08 101
    • D08 90
    • 606 79
    • 606 83
    • 606 169
    • 604 22
    • 128 24 AA
    • 128 24 A
    • 030 168
    • 030 161
    • 030 167
    • D24 146
    • D24 147
    • D24 170
    • D24 231
    • D24 232
    • Term of Grant
      14Years
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Abstract
Description
Claims
  • The ornamental design for an ultrasonic cutting tool for medical use, as shown and described.
US Referenced Citations (24)
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2714890 Vang Aug 1955
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Non-Patent Literature Citations (7)
Entry
"Orthopedic Catalog" Richards Manufacturing Inc. pp. 10, 14, 20 .COPYRGT.1981.
"Complete Replacement Arthroplasty of the Hip by the Ring Prosthesis", The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, P. A. Ring, pp. 720-731 (British) vol. 50B, No. 4, Nov. 1968.
"A New Technique for Removal of Broken Femoral Stem in Total Hip Replacement" by William H. Harris, et al., The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, vol. 63-A, No. 5, Jun. 1981.
Biological Fixation of the Porocoat AML.RTM. Hip--Manual for Pre-Operative Planning and Recommended Surgical Technique (1984) by Charles A. Engh, M.D. and J. Dennis Bobyn, Ph.D.
"Proximal Femoral Osteotomy in Difficult Revision Hip Surgery: How to Revise the Unrevisable" by Hugh H. Cameron, Ph.D., Contemporary Orthopaedics, May 1989, vol. 18, No. 5.
Photographs 1-3 illustrating an ultrasonic aspiration surgical tool used in neural surgery, designed by Dr. David Wuchinich and disclosed in 1967.
Photographs 4-15 illustrating three ultrasonic surgical tools manufactured by Quinton and distributed by Howmedica, Inc. in 1985.