RELAY DEVICE AND ULTRASONIC-SURGICAL AND ELECTROSURGICAL SYSTEM

• US 20090131929A1
• Filed: 01/22/2009
• Published: 05/21/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: SHIMIZU, Koh
• Granted Patent: US 9,757,142 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/34
• 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 18/14 Probes or electrodes 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 2017/00017 Electrical control of surgical instruments
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00106 ultrasonic
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00154 pulsed
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00199 with a console, e.g. a control panel with a display
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00212 using remote controls
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/320093 additional movable means performing cutting operation
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/320095 with sealing or cauterizing means
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 7/02 Localised ultrasound hyperthermia hyperthermia in general A61F7/00

Abstract

An ultrasonic-surgical and electrosurgical system includes an ultrasonic surgical device and an electrosurgical device which supply an ultrasonic signal and a high-frequency signal, respectively, to an ultrasonic/high-frequency treatment instrument capable of performing an ultrasonic treatment and a high-frequency treatment, and a relay device which is built in one of the devices including: a switch detection unit for detecting turn-on/off of a switch unit which performs on/off control of operations of the devices; a switch element for outputting a switch signal which is used for on/off of outputs of the ultrasonic signal and the high-frequency signal to each of the devices in accordance with the detection output; and a control unit for performing on/off control of the switch signal to control at least one of an output timing and an output mode of each of the signals.

Claims

1. An ultrasonic-surgical and electrosurgical system comprising:

an ultrasonic surgical device for supplying an ultrasonic signal to an ultrasonic/high-frequency treatment instrument capable of performing an ultrasonic treatment using ultrasonic vibration in accordance with the supplied ultrasonic signal and performing a high-frequency treatment in accordance with a supplied high-frequency signal;

an electrosurgical device for supplying the high-frequency signal to the ultrasonic/high-frequency treatment instrument; and

a relay device which is built in one of the ultrasonic surgical device and the electrosurgical device, including;

a switch detection unit for detecting turn-on/off of a switch unit which performs on/off control of operations of the ultrasonic surgical device and the electrosurgical device;

a switch element for outputting a switch signal which is used for on/off of outputs of the ultrasonic signal and the high-frequency signal, to each of the ultrasonic surgical device and the electrosurgical device in accordance with a detection output of the switch detection unit; and

a control unit for performing on/off control of the switch signal of the switch element in accordance with the detection output to control at least one of an output timing and an output mode of each of the ultrasonic signal and high-frequency signal.

2. The ultrasonic-surgical and electrosurgical system according to claim 1, wherein the relay device is built in the ultrasonic surgical device.

3. The ultrasonic-surgical and electrosurgical system according to claim 1, wherein the relay device is built in the electrosurgical device.

4. The ultrasonic-surgical and electrosurgical system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the ultrasonic surgical device and the electrosurgical device includes a type detection unit for detecting a type of the ultrasonic/high-frequency treatment instrument.

5. The ultrasonic-surgical and electrosurgical system according to claim 2, wherein at least one of the ultrasonic surgical device and the electrosurgical device includes a type detection unit for detecting a type of the ultrasonic/high-frequency treatment instrument.

6. The ultrasonic-surgical and electrosurgical system according to claim 3, wherein at least one of the ultrasonic surgical device and the electrosurgical device includes a type detection unit for detecting the type of the ultrasonic/high-frequency treatment instrument.

7. The ultrasonic-surgical and electrosurgical system according to claim 4, wherein the control unit controls at least one of the output timing and the output mode of each of the ultrasonic signal and the high-frequency signal on the basis of information regarding the type detected by the type detection unit.

8. The ultrasonic-surgical and electrosurgical system according to claim 5, wherein the control unit controls at least one of the output timing and the output mode of each of the ultrasonic signal and the high-frequency signal on the basis of information regarding the type detected by the type detection unit.

9. The ultrasonic-surgical and electrosurgical system according to claim 6, wherein the control unit controls at least one of the output timing and the output mode of each of the ultrasonic signal and the high-frequency signal on the basis of information regarding the type detected by the type detection unit.

10. The ultrasonic-surgical and electrosurgical system according to claim 1, wherein the ultrasonic surgical device includes a resonance-frequency search unit for sweeping frequencies in a small-amplitude ultrasonic signal to the ultrasonic/high-frequency treatment instrument in order to search for a resonance frequency.

11. The ultrasonic-surgical and electrosurgical system according to claim 2, wherein the ultrasonic surgical device includes a resonance-frequency search unit for sweeping frequencies in a small-amplitude ultrasonic signal to the ultrasonic/high-frequency treatment instrument in order to search for a resonance frequency.

12. The ultrasonic-surgical and electrosurgical system according to claim 3, wherein the ultrasonic surgical device includes a resonance-frequency search unit for sweeping frequencies in a small-amplitude ultrasonic signal to the ultrasonic/high-frequency treatment instrument in order to search for a resonance frequency.

13. The ultrasonic-surgical and electrosurgical system according to claim 4, wherein the ultrasonic surgical device includes a resonance-frequency search unit for sweeping frequencies in a small-amplitude ultrasonic signal to the ultrasonic/high-frequency treatment instrument in order to search for a resonance frequency.

14. The ultrasonic-surgical and electrosurgical system according to claim 10, wherein the control unit controls the output timings of the ultrasonic signal and the high-frequency signal so that both the signals are simultaneously output after completion of the resonance-frequency search by the resonance-frequency search unit.

15. The ultrasonic-surgical and electrosurgical system according to claim 11, wherein the control unit controls the output timings of the ultrasonic signal and the high-frequency signal so that both the signals are simultaneously output after completion of the resonance-frequency search by the resonance-frequency search unit.

16. The ultrasonic-surgical and electrosurgical system according to claim 12, wherein the control unit controls the output timings of the ultrasonic signal and the high-frequency signal so that both the signals are simultaneously output after completion of the resonance-frequency search by the resonance-frequency search unit.

17. The ultrasonic-surgical and electrosurgical system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the ultrasonic surgical device and the electrosurgical device includes an error detection unit for detecting an error occurred in the device.

18. The ultrasonic-surgical and electrosurgical system according to claim 2, wherein at least one of the ultrasonic surgical device and the electrosurgical device includes an error detection unit for detecting an error occurred in the device.

19. The ultrasonic-surgical and electrosurgical system according to claim 3, wherein at least one of the ultrasonic surgical device and the electrosurgical device includes an error detection unit for detecting an error occurred in the device.

20. The ultrasonic-surgical and electrosurgical system according to claim 17, wherein the control unit stops output of the ultrasonic signal and the high-frequency signal on the basis of error detection information from the error detection unit.