Energy treatment instrument

• US 10,441,309 B2
• Filed: 05/16/2017
• Issued: 10/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Honda, Yoshitaka, Yamamoto, Tatsuro
• Primary Examiner(s): Dvorak, Linda C
• Assistant Examiner(s): Clark, Ryan T
• Application Number:
  US15/596,234
• Publication Number:
  US 20170245880A1
• Time in Patent Office: 882 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/320068 using mechanical vibrations, e.g. ultrasonic A61B17/22012 takes precedence; dental tooth drilling devices operated by vibration A61C3/03; removing intra-ocular material using mechanical vibrations A61F9/00745
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/320092 with additional movable means for clamping or cutting tissue, e.g. with a pivoting jaw
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/1206 Generators therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/1445 at the distal end of a shaft, e.g. forceps or scissors at the end of a rigid rod
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/1482 having a long rigid shaft for accessing the inner body transcutaneously in minimal invasive surgery, e.g. laparoscopy
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00411 actuated by application of energy from an energy source outside the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/320069 for ablating tissue
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/320094 additional movable means performing clamping operation
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/320095 with sealing or cauterizing means
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/00994 combining two or more different kinds of non-mechanical energy or combining one or more non-mechanical energies with ultrasound
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/1226 powered by a battery
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/126 bipolar
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/1286 having a specific transformer
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/145 wherein the effectors remain parallel during closing and opening

Abstract

An energy treatment instrument includes a held unit capable of being held, and an electric-receiver-side resonator including an electric receiver coil wound around a coil axis, and resonating at the same resonance frequency as an electric-supplier-side resonator, thereby electric power being supplied from an electric supplier coil to the electric receiver coil. The energy treatment instrument includes an energy generator generating energy for use in a treatment by using the electric power supplied to the electric receiver coil, and a magnetic member including a magnetic material and located distant from the coil axis of the electric receiver coil.

Claims

1. An energy treatment instrument comprising:

a held unit which has a longitudinal axis, and which is capable of being held, the held unit including;

a case main body which extends along the longitudinal axis; and

a stationary handle which extends from the case main body in an extension direction crossing the longitudinal axis;

an end effector exposed outside of the held unit, and configured to contact to a biological tissue;

a magnetic member including a magnetic material;

an electric-receiver-side resonator including an electric receiver coil which has a coil axis that is located distant from the magnetic member, and a capacitor, an inductance of the electric receiver coil and a capacitance of the capacitor being set in a state in which the electric-receiver-side resonator resonates at a same resonance frequency as an electric-supplier-side resonator including an electric supplier coil, the electric-receiver-side resonator being configured to resonate at the resonance frequency so that electric power for thermally denaturing the biological tissue contacted by the end effector is supplied from the electric supplier coil to the electric receiver coil during a treatment; and

an energy generator configured to generate energy for use in the treatment, by using the electric power supplied to the electric receiver coil,

wherein the magnetic member extends along the longitudinal axis of the held unit, and

the coil axis of the electric receiver coil does not intersect the longitudinal axis of the held unit when the held unit is viewed from each of one side and the other side of a width direction of the held unit which is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and the extension direction of the stationary handle.

2. The energy treatment instrument of claim 1, wherein, when the held unit is viewed from each of one side and the other side of a direction along the longitudinal axis of the held unit, the coil axis of the electric receiver coil does not intersect the longitudinal axis of the held unit.

3. The energy treatment instrument of claim 1, wherein the held unit includes a movable handle which is openable and closable relative to the stationary handle, and

the magnetic member includes an elastic member which extends along the longitudinal axis in an inside of the case main body, and which is configured to contract by closing the movable handle relative to the stationary handle, the elastic member being located distant from the coil axis of the electric receiver coil.

4. The energy treatment instrument of claim 1, wherein the magnetic member includes an accumulator which is configured to accumulate the electric power supplied from the electric supplier coil to the electric receiver coil, the accumulator being located distant from the coil axis of the electric receiver coil.

5. The energy treatment instrument of claim 1, further comprising a vibration transmitter which extends along the longitudinal axis, and which is configured to transmit ultrasonic vibration for use in the treatment from a proximal side toward a distal side, and

the magnetic member includes a vibration generator which is coupled to a proximal portion of the vibration transmitter, and which is configured to generate the ultrasonic vibration, which is transmitted to the vibration transmitter, by being supplied with the energy from the energy generator, the vibration generator being located distant from the coil axis of the electric receiver coil.

6. The energy treatment instrument of claim 1, wherein the electric-receiver-side resonator includes at least one additional electric receiver coil,

each of the additional electric receiver coils is wound around an additional coil axis which corresponds thereto, and

the magnetic member is located distant from each of the additional coil axes.

7. The energy treatment instrument of claim 6, wherein an extending direction of the coil axis is different from an extending direction of at least one of the additional coil axes.

8. The energy treatment instrument of claim 1, wherein the electric receiver coil is disposed in the stationary handle.

9. The energy treatment instrument of claim 1, further comprising:

an operation switch provided in the held unit;

a battery which is capable of being charged with the electric power; and

a change-over switch that is capable of being changed over between a first state in which the battery and the electric-receiver-side resonator are electrically connected, and a second state in which the battery and the energy generator are electrically connected,

wherein the change-over switch is changed over from the first state to the second state, when the operation switch is activated.

10. The energy treatment instrument of claim 1, wherein the electric power is supplied from the electric supplier coil to the electric receiver coil by an electromagnetic field resonance method when a distance from electric-receiver-side resonator to the electric-supplier-side resonator is several meters or less.

11. The energy treatment instrument of claim 1, wherein the electric power is supplied from the electric supplier coil to the electric receiver coil by an electromagnetic field resonance method in a state that the held unit, the magnetic member, the electric-receiver-side resonator, and the energy generator are at least one meter apart from the electric-supplier-side resonator.

12. The energy treatment instrument of claim 1, further comprising a battery configured to electrically connect to the capacitor through a converter circuit.

13. The energy treatment instrument of claim 12, further comprising the converter circuit configured to electrically connect between the capacitor and the battery.

14. The energy treatment instrument of claim 1, wherein the energy generator generates energy for use in the denaturing simultaneously with the electric power being supplied from the electric supplier coil to the electric receiver coil during the treatment.

15. The energy treatment instrument of claim 1, wherein the coil axis of the electric receiver coil does not pass through an outer shape of the magnetic member and an inside of the outer shape of the magnetic member when the held unit is viewed from each of one side and the other side of a width direction of the held unit.

16. The energy treatment instrument of claim 2, wherein the coil axis of the electric receiver coil does not pass through an outer shape of the magnetic member and an inside of the outer shape of the magnetic member when the held unit is viewed from each of one side and the other side of a direction along the longitudinal axis of the held unit.

17. An energy treatment instrument comprising:

a held unit which has a longitudinal axis, and which is capable of being held, the held unit including;

a case main body which extends along the longitudinal axis; and

a stationary handle which extends from the case main body in an extension direction crossing the longitudinal axis;

an end effector exposed outside of the held unit, and configured to contact to a biological tissue;

a magnetic member including a magnetic material;

an electric-receiver-side resonator including an electric receiver coil which has a coil axis that is located distant from the magnetic member, and a capacitor, an inductance of the electric receiver coil and a capacitance of the capacitor being set in a state in which the electric-receiver-side resonator resonates at a same resonance frequency as an electric-supplier-side resonator including an electric supplier coil, the electric-receiver-side resonator being configured to resonate at the resonance frequency so that electric power for thermally denaturing the biological tissue contacted by the end effector is supplied from the electric supplier coil to the electric receiver coil during a treatment; and

an energy generator configured to generate energy for use in the treatment, by using the electric power supplied to the electric receiver coil,

wherein the magnetic member extends along the longitudinal axis of the held unit, and

the coil axis of the electric receiver coil does not intersect the longitudinal axis of the held unit when the held unit is viewed from each of one side and the other side of a width direction along the longitudinal axis of the held unit which is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and the extension direction of the stationary handle.