Surgical instruments

US10531910B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Ethicon, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Kevin L. Houser · Springboro, US
• Stephanie J. Muir · Loveland, US
• Louis T. DeLuca · Flower Mound, US
• Daniel W. Price · Loveland, US
• William D. Boyd · Oviedo, US
• Galen C. Robertson · Apex, US
• Michael J. O'Neil · West Barnstable, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 18, 2017
• Grant date: Jan 14, 2020
• Expiry date: Oct 22, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49716
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A surgical device is disclosed including a surgical instrument and an outer sheath surrounding the surgical instrument. The surgical instruments includes an end effector including a first jaw member and a second jaw member. At least one of the first jaw member or the second jaw member is pivotable toward the other to grasp tissue. The outer sheath is slidable relative to the surgical instrument along a longitudinal axis between a first position, wherein the first jaw member and the second jaw member are positioned within the outer sheath proximal to a distal portion of the outer sheath, and a second positon, wherein the first iaw member and the second iaw member are positioned outside the outer sheath distal to the distal portion of the outer sheath. The distal portion of the outer sheath is configured to clamp tissue.