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Cutting/coagulating forceps with interleaved electrodes

  • US 5,902,301 A
  • Filed: 02/23/1998
  • Issued: 05/11/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/23/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In a bipolar electrosurgical instrument of the type including a handle member for supporting a pair of effectors and having a means for selectively applying a voltage across said pair of effectors, the improvement comprising:

  • said pair of effectors each being a conductive metal having first and second side edges and being formed at an angle less than 180°

    along a longitudinal axis between the first and second side edges, the side edges of the pair of effectors having a plurality of spaced, inwardly extending notches defining a plurality of tabs, the pair of effectors being supported by the handle member with the plurality of tabs on the side edges of one of the pair of effectors fit into the notches on the side edges of the other of the pair of effectors without the effectors contacting one another and with exposed end edges of the tabs on the first of the pair of effectors collinear with exposed end edges of the tabs on the side edges of the second of the pair of effectors.

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