Treatment device

• US 7,717,914 B2
• Filed: 07/11/2006
• Issued: 05/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: Kimura, Kenichi
• Primary Examiner(s): GIBSON, ROY DEAN
• Application Number:
  US11/484,823
• Publication Number:
  US 20080015567A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,407 Days
• Field of Search: 606/41, 606/50, 606/51
• US Class Current: 606/51
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/1442 Probes having pivoting end effectors, e.g. forceps
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/00083 low, i.e. electrically insulating
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/00589 Coagulation
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/00601 Cutting
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/1467 using more than two electrodes on a single probe

Abstract

A treatment device of this invention has a pair of first, second jaws capable of opening/closing with respect to each other at the tip end portion and comprises a tissue pressing portion in the relatively dull shape provided on a surface portion of the first jaw opposite to the second jaw and having a projection portion formed projecting toward the second jaw side, a receiving member provided on a surface portion of the second jaw opposite to the first jaw at a position opposite to the tissue pressing portion, and a plurality of electrode portions provided at least at one of the first jaw and the second jaw so that a high-frequency current flows through a living tissue compressed by the tissue pressing portion and the receiving member.

Claims

1. A treatment device having a pair of first and second jaws capable of opening/closing with respect to each other at a tip end portion comprising:

a relatively blunt tissue pressing portion provided on a surface portion of the first jaw opposite the second jaw and having a projection portion projecting toward the second jaw side;

a receiving member provided on a surface portion of the second jaw opposite the first jaw at a position opposite the tissue pressing portion; and

a plurality of electrode portions comprising a first electrode portion, a second electrode portion and a third electrode portion, the first and the third electrode portions being provided at the first jaw and the second electrode portion being provided at the second jaw, so that a high-frequency current flows through a living tissue compressed by the tissue pressing portion and the receiving member, wherein

the first electrode portion is formed by the projection portion alone of the tissue pressing portion of the first jaw,

the third electrode portion is formed so as to cover an insulating member electrically insulated by the projection portion and to be exposed on the surface of the second jaw side, and

the second electrode portion is provided at the second jaw so as to hold the receiving member formed of the insulating member.

2. The treatment device according to claim 1, wherein

the third electrode portion and the second electrode portion form a first current path so that a high-frequency current flows through a living tissue compressed by the tissue pressing portion and the receiving member;

and

the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion form a second current path so that the high-frequency current flows through the living tissue compressed by the tissue pressing portion and the receiving member.

3. The treatment device according to claim 2, further comprising switching means so that the high-frequency current flows through the first current path and the second current path at the same time or in a switching manner.

4. The treatment device according to claim 3, wherein the switching means is capable of selectively switching the supply of a high-frequency current with an incision waveform and a high-frequency current with a coagulation waveform.