Storage Systems for Medical Devices

Abstract

The invention relates to a receiving sleeve (1) for surgical instruments, a holding device for storing and cleaning surgical instruments comprising at least one such receiving sleeve, and a holding device comprising such a holding device and / or Surgical instrument case that receives sleeves. The receiving sleeve and the holding device have a lightweight construction that allows a maximum fluid flow to an instrument held in the receiving sleeve or in the holding device. The receiving sleeve comprises a cylindrical hollow body with a plurality of circumferentially spaced internal clamping elements (4) having point-like or linear engagement sections which are held by adjusted to come into contact with the inserted tool (14) in a force-fit or form-fit manner in order to hold said tool (14) within said receiving sleeve (1) at a certain diameter from said cylindrical hollow body to the distance.

Description

technical field [0001] The present invention relates to storage systems for medical instruments, in particular dental instruments. Background technique [0002] In modern surgery, a number of different instrument heads / tools are used such as drilling or milling heads, each of which can be detachably attached / placed on a hand piece comprising an instrument driver. in the phone. This allows the surgeon to change the instrument head (attached to / placed in) the handset during use of the handset as required by the application. In order to provide the surgeon with the easiest access to these instrument heads (hereinafter referred to as tools), the tools are usually stored in a sorted manner in a surgical tool box. To avoid damage to the tools and to ensure that the required tools are found quickly, the tools are not stored loosely, but are held in receiving sleeves which are inserted into or fixed in the hole array of the tool case. In order to make it easier for the surgeon to...

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Problems solved by technology

[0006] Although conventional toolboxes are very suitable for storing surgical tools and also ensuring quick access to correspondingly needed tools during surgery, a disadvantage of said conventional toolboxes is that the surgical tools must be removed from the conventional toolbox (storage box) for cleaning, Afterwards the surgical tools have to be put away again in the tool case, because with conventional instrument cases, cleaning of the tools is impossible or only difficult when they are inserted into the instrument case (storage box)

[0009] To withstand the high temperatures during sterilization, any plastic part of a conventional toolbox must be made of special heat-resistant plastic, which increases production costs

In addition, due to the positive surface charge of plastic materials, dirt takes longer to adhere to plastic materials than to other materials such as metal, making it more difficult to clean tool boxes

Even when drying the toolbox after the cleaning process, the bulky construction of conventional toolboxes and their suitable material plastic proves to be a disadvantage

[0010] Therefore, prior art is known tool cases and receiving sleeves for surgical instruments, which do not allow cleaning of the received surgical instruments in the equipped state of the tool case (storage case) due to their bulky construction

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