Micro-instrument

USRE36666E · kind E · reissue

Assignee

• TNCO, Inc. · US

Inventors

• George P. Honkanen · North Scituate, US
• by Roger M. Burke, legal representative · Weston, US
• Roger M. Burke · Weston, US
• Paul C. Weaver · Bridgewater, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 6, 1994
• Grant date: Apr 18, 2000
• Expiry date: Oct 6, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

A microsurgical instrument with opposing jaws rotatable relative to one another using a pivot integral to a frame comprising one jaw for rotating the other jaw and a linkage to push one jaw rotatably towards the other jaw wherein a distal-most surface of that jaw pushes against a surface of jaw to be moved.