Ultrasonic treatment apparatus

• US 20060247558A1
• Filed: 06/26/2006
• Published: 11/02/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Yamada, Norihiro
• Application Number:
  US11/474,843
• Publication Number:
  US 20060247558A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 601/2
• 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 2017/2902 characterized by features of the actuating rod
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/320088 with acoustic insulation, e.g. elements for damping vibrations between horn and surrounding sheath

Abstract

An ultrasonic treatment apparatus includes a transmission member which has flexibility and to which an ultrasonic vibration is transmitted to perform ultrasonic treatment; a treatment portion which is provided at a distal end of the transmission member, and has a length approximately ½ of a wavelength of the ultrasonic vibration, a cross section area on a plane orthogonal to a transmission direction of the ultrasonic vibration, and a stiffness in which the cross section area is larger than a cross section area of the transmission member, a distal end of the treatment portion being located at an ultrasonic vibration antinode; and a grasping member which is provided to the treatment portion, opened or closed by an operation wire to grasp body tissue with the treatment portion, engaged with the treatment portion at the ultrasonic vibration node.

Claims

1. An ultrasonic treatment apparatus, comprising:

a transmission member which has flexibility and to which an ultrasonic vibration is transmitted to perform ultrasonic treatment;

a treatment portion which is provided at a distal end of the transmission member, and has a length which is approximately ½

of a wavelength of the ultrasonic vibration, a cross section area on a plane orthogonal to a transmission direction of the ultrasonic vibration, and a stiffness in which the cross section area is larger than a cross section area of the transmission member, a distal end of the treatment portion being located at an ultrasonic vibration antinode; and

a grasping member which is provided to the treatment portion, opened or closed by an operation wire to grasp body tissue with the treatment portion, engaged with the treatment portion at the ultrasonic vibration node, the operation wire being connected to the grasping member at one end, and to an operation member at the other end, so that the operation wire is handled by the operation member.

2. The ultrasonic treatment apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmission member is covered with a sheath.

3. The ultrasonic treatment apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the transmission member is provided with a damping member which is located at an ultrasonic vibration node and in direct contact with an inside of the sheath.