Instrument for endoscopic surgery

US6001096A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• Huttinger Medizintechnik GmbH · DE
• Gunter Bissinger Medizintechnik GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Gunter Bissinger · Teningen, DE
• Bernhard Hug · Glückstadt, DE
• Clemens Scholz · Glückstadt, DE
• Andrea Scarfi · Esslingen am Neckar, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 6, 1998
• Grant date: Dec 14, 1999
• Expiry date: Jan 6, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B2018/1861
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The invention is related to an instrument for endoscopic surgery. The instrument comprises a casing 10, further comprises a sliding tube 16 which extends into the casing with its proximal end 20 and which is disposed longitudinally slidable with respect to the casing by means of an actuating mechanism 38, further comprises an electrode tube 18 which extends through the sliding tube 16, which extends into the casing with its proximal end and is axially lockable therein, and further comprises two isolated wire pieces 32 which extend through the inside of the electrode tube 18. The wire pieces 32 which are adapted to be subjected to a high frequency current comprise branches 30 which protrude over the electrode tube 18 and the sliding tube 16 at their distal end, which are spread apart from one another slanted in opposite directions, which are elastically bendable with respect to each other in a radial direction against a spring force acting in the direction of spreading during a movement of the sliding tube 16, and which carry isolated bending sections 48 and, at their free ends, metallic electrodes 56. In order to be able to mechanically cut as well as coagulate, in a bipolar manner…