Patent ID: 11950938
Assignee: TERUMO CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS CORPORATION
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  B | IPC A  B

Claim 0:
1. An organizer for a plurality of surgical forceps, wherein each forceps of the plurality of surgical forceps includes a pair of shanks with distal tips, proximal ring handles, and a ratchet mechanism adjacent the ring handles, the pair of shanks and the ratchet mechanism bounding an opening defined by the forceps when the ratchet mechanism is engaged, the organizer comprising:
a base;
a wedge-shaped core projecting upwards along a vertical axis from the base and having a profile adapted to fit within the respective opening of each forceps of a plurality of forceps; and
a plurality of wings projecting radially from the core and defining a plurality of substantially U-shaped channels between adjacent wings, wherein the channels are configured to nest the shanks of the forceps so that the respective forceps are locked in the channels by their respective ratchet mechanisms;
wherein at least some of the channels are slanted downward from a respective proximal end to a respective distal end so that the ring handles of corresponding forceps are higher than the corresponding distal tips; and
wherein the slanted channels have respective inclination angles that are progressively greater from a lowest slanted channel to a highest slanted channel.