Katherine D. Stoy,Giuseppe Maria Prisco,Samuel Kwok Wai Au,Carolyn Fenech
申请号：
US12946741
公开号：
US20120123395A1
申请日:
2010.11.15
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2012
代理人:
摘要：
A surgical device can include a tube comprising a wall having a plurality of slits oriented generally transverse to a longitudinal axis of the tube. Each of the slits may be defined by opposing surfaces. The surgical device can further include a force transmission element coupled to the tube. In a flexible state of the tube, at least some of the opposing surfaces defining respective slits are separated from one another, and in a stiffened state of the tube, a force exerted on the force transmission element causes the opposing surfaces of each slit to contact one another.
