Patent ID: 7871416
Filing Date: 2011-01-18
Classification: A61B,A61F

Abstract:
1. A fluid inflatable device to plicate the stomach for morbid obesity surgery, comprising: a) a frame comprising a first leg having a free end, a hinged end and an inner surface, a second leg having a free end, and a hinged end and an inner surface, and a bight portion interconnecting said hinged ends and said inner surfaces of said first and second legs, where at least one of said first and second legs is so hinged to said bight portion to permit rotation relative thereto; b) a first inflatable member sealingly attached to said inner surface of said first leg; c) a second inflatable member sealingly attached to said inner surface of said second leg; d) latch means carried by said first leg adjacent said free end for locking said first and second legs in substantially fixed spatial relationship; and e) fluid means carried by and extending at least in part within said latch means for supplying and aspirating fluid to selectively inflate or aspirate either said first or said second inflatable member or both said first and second inflatable members to plicate said stomach, where said first leg has an axis of elongation and a first lumen extending at least in part axially therein and in fluid communication with said fluid means, where said first leg has a first inflation port communicating with said first inflation member and said first lumen to permit inflation of said first inflatable member or aspiration of fluid from said first inflatable member, and where said bight portion has bight lumen and said first leg has a third lumen extending at least in part axially therein and communicating with said bight lumen and said fluid means, said second leg having an axis of elongation and a second lumen extending at least in part axially therein and further having a second inflation port where said second lumen communicates with said bight lumen and said second inflation port to permit inflation of said second inflatable member or aspiration of fluid from said second inflatable member and where said latch means comprises a flexible latch member carried by said first leg, said flexible latch member having a first conduit and a second conduit where said first conduit is in fluid communication with said fluid means and said first lumen, and said second conduit is in fluid communication with said third lumen, and where said second leg has a latch cavity and said flexible latch member has at least one serration so dimensioned and proportioned such that said serration upon engagement with said latch cavity locks said first and second legs in substantially fixed spatial relationship.