Surgery – Instruments – Light application
Reexamination Certificate
2006-08-11
2011-12-13
Farah, Ahmed (Department: 3769)
Surgery
Instruments
Light application
C606S015000, C606S016000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08075553
ABSTRACT:
An ophthalmic surgery illuminated directional laser probe has a handle and a rigid tubular tip projecting from the handle, and has an illumination optic fiber and a laser optic fiber that extend through the handle and the tip. A mechanism on the handle is operable to extend distal ends of the illumination optic fiber and the laser optic fiber from the distal end of the instrument tip, and to retract the distal ends of the illumination optic fiber and the laser optic fiber back into the interior of the tip. At least one of the distal ends of the illumination optic fiber and the laser optic fiber is held in a curved configuration. The distal ends of the illumination optic fiber and the laser optic fiber are secured to each other, whereby both the illumination optic fiber and the laser optic fiber curve into a bent configuration as the distal ends of the illumination optic fiber and the laser optic fiber are extended from the distal end of the instrument tip.
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Auld Michael D.
Nadolski Timothy J.
Scheller Gregg D.
Evans & Dixon, LLC
Farah Ahmed
Rolnicki Joseph M.
Synergetics, Inc.
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