Patent ID: 9561030
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: A61B

Claim:
1. A surgical staple and staple pocket for forming kidney-shaped staple, wherein: the staple is located in a staple cartridge, the staple comprises a back span and two legs, end portions of the two legs are provided with tips respectively, and a middle portion of the back span protrudes towards the tips of the two legs, so that the back span and the two legs of the staple form an M-shaped staple; the staple pocket comprises a side surface, a bottom surface, and an oblique ridge that are formed after the staple pocket is inward recessed on a tissue contacting surface of a staple anvil, the staple pocket forms perimeter on the surface of the staple anvil, a ridge line of the oblique ridge and a long axis of the staple pocket intersect and form an acute angle, a ridge top of the oblique ridge is inward recessed towards the bottom surface, the oblique ridge divides the bottom surface into two parts, and intersection lines between the side surface and the oblique ridge of the staple pocket and the bottom surface form staple guide lines of the staple pocket; when a staple driver pushes the M-shaped staple out of the staple cartridge, the staple driver urges the tips of the two legs of the M-shaped staple against the staple pocket of the staple anvil, so that the two legs of the M-shaped staple bend along the staple guide lines of the staple pocket respectively, wherein a portion, in the middle of the back span and protruding towards the tips of the two legs, moves towards a portion, inward recessed towards the bottom surface, of the ridge top of the oblique ridge on the staple pocket of the staple anvil, so as to bend the M-shaped staple to form a kidney-shaped staple; wherein, the staple anvil is circular, the multiple staple pockets are staggered-arranged on two or more rings on the tissue contacting surface of the circular staple anvil, and extension lines of ridge lines of oblique ridges of two adjacent staple pockets on two adjacent rings intersect.