SBIR/STTR Research Award
Develop and Test Safe Scalpel Blade Dispenser
Award amount
$100,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1995Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Stony Brook Surgical
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
The project will design, produce and test a new device composed of a plastic container with nestedblades to mount and dismount blades from scalpel handles without touching the blade. At the presentblades a year are handled with the risk of cuts from contaminated blades. The final engineering desidevice (for which a patent has already been obtained) would be completed, an injection mold built, adevice completed.
Technology keywords
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