Surgery – Instruments – Electrical application
Patent
1997-06-18
1999-10-05
Dvorak, Linda C. M.
Surgery
Instruments
Electrical application
606 48, 606 51, A61B 1739
Patent
active
059615141
ABSTRACT:
An improved electrosurgical instrument for use with a specially adapted electrosurgical trocar. The improved electrosurgical instrument including a handle, an end effector and an elongated closure tube connecting the handle to the end effector. The elongated closure tube including one or more electrical contacts adapted to provide electrical contact to the interior of a trocar cannula as the electrosurgical instrument is passed through the cannula. The contacts being electrically connected to the end effector of the electrosurgical instrument such that electrosurgical energy passes through the contacts to the end effector.
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Freeman Lynetta J.
Knodel Bryan D.
Long Gary L.
Dvorak Linda C. M.
Ethicon Endo-Surger, Inc.
Gibson Roy
Shay Bernard
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