Patent ID: 7448868
Filing Date: 2008-11-11
Classification: A61C,A61M,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A device comprising a tool holder and a flexibly deformable tool, the tool holder comprising: an elongate body with a channel parallel to the body intended to receive the end of the tool; and a support at the end of the tool holder having an end part of the channel opening to the outside of the body, widening toward the outside of the body and configured to guide the tool toward the cylindrical part when it is being fitted in the tool holder, this part opening to the outside of the body comprising a surface of which one of the generatrices being substantially parallel to the axis of the cylindrical part of the channel and which extends from the cylindrical part to outside of the body, permitting introduction of the tool into the body by a displacement along the axis of the cylindrical part of the channel; and means to hold the tool after its flexion in such a way that at least a portion of the axis of the tool is in a direction not parallel to the axis of the body, the means being fixed to the support in the direction not parallel to the axis of the body.