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Method of assembling a cordless hand-held ultrasonic cautery cutting device

US8061014B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Covidien LP · US

Inventors

Kevin W. Smith · Kendall, US
Thomas O. Bales, Jr. · Kendall, US
Matthew A. Palmer · Miami, US
Derek Dee Deville · Miami, US

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 26, 2009
Grant date	Nov 22, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 27, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T29/49169
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A method for assembling an ultrasonic surgical assembly includes the steps of substantially simultaneously removably coupling an ultrasonic-driving-wave-signal generating circuit to an ultrasonic surgical handle body and removably inserting an ultrasonic-movement-producing distal end of a rotatably free ultrasonic transducer into the ultrasonic surgical handle body. An ultrasonic waveguide is inserted into the ultrasonic surgical handle body opposite the ultrasonic-movement-producing distal end. The ultrasonic waveguide is rotated with respect to the ultrasonic transducer to fixedly couple the ultrasonic waveguide to the ultrasonic-movement-producing distal end of the ultrasonic transducer.

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