Patent ID: 11957330
Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 19:
20. A medical device for cinching and cutting one or more suture, the medical device comprising:
an elongated shaft defining a shaft lumen;
a sleeve having a sleeve lumen and an opening extending into the sleeve lumen, the sleeve attached to the shaft;
a cutter at least partially disposed within the sleeve lumen, the cutter releasably connected to the sleeve by a frangible connection, the cutter having a cutter lumen and defining a cutting surface;
a cinch member defining a cinch member lumen; and
an inner shaft extending through and longitudinally movable within the shaft lumen, the sleeve lumen, the cutter lumen, and the cinch member lumen;
wherein the cinch member and cutter are each slidable between distal positions configured to allow one or more suture to be loaded into the medical device, and proximal positions configured to allow the cutter to cut the one or more suture;
wherein sliding the cinch member to its proximal position breaks the frangible connection, allowing the cutter to move to its proximal position.