Surgical operating apparatus

• US 8,048,074 B2
• Filed: 03/28/2008
• Issued: 11/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: Masuda, Shinya
• Primary Examiner(s): LANG, AMY T
• Application Number:
  US12/057,490
• Publication Number:
  US 20090248051A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,313 Days
• Field of Search: 606/39, 606/167, 606/169, 606/48, 606/45, 606 49- 52, 606/190, 606/205, 604/22, 433/86, 433/119, 600/437, 601/2
• US Class Current: 606/51
• 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 18/1445 at the distal end of a shaft, e.g. forceps or scissors at the end of a rigid rod
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/320095 with sealing or cauterizing means

Abstract

A surgical operating apparatus includes an ultrasonic treatment section which performs ultrasonic treatment on a living tissue, and a high-frequency treatment section which performs high-frequency treatment on the living tissue, and includes a narrow width part which is provided on at least one of mutually opposed surfaces of a first electrode portion of a first grasping member and a second electrode portion of a second grasping member. The narrow width part is configured to be disposed at a position where the second grasping member does not easily suffer a stress due to ultrasonic vibration when the living tissue is grasped between the second grasping member and the first grasping member, and to make a distance between the mutually opposed surfaces of the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion narrower than a distance at other positions.

Claims

1. A surgical operating apparatus comprising:

an ultrasonic treatment section configured to perform ultrasonic treatment on a treatment object; and

a high-frequency treatment section configured to perform high-frequency treatment on the treatment object,

wherein the ultrasonic treatment section comprises;

a first grasping member;

a second grasping member which is provided to be openable/closable relative to the first grasping member, the first grasping member and the second grasping member being configured to grasp the treatment object between them;

an ultrasonic vibration portion which is provided in the first grasping member and which is connected to an ultrasonic transducer; and

a push portion which is provided on the second grasping member, and which is opposed to the ultrasonic vibration portion, the push portion being configured to push the treatment object between the push portion and the ultrasonic vibration portion,

the ultrasonic treatment section is configured to

perform the ultrasonic treatment on the treatment object between the ultrasonic vibration portion and the push portion,

the high-frequency treatment section comprises;

a first electrode portion which is provided on the first grasping member, and which includes a first surface opposed to the second grasping member; and

a second electrode portion which is provided on the second grasping member, and which includes a second surface opposed to the first surface of the first grasping member, the second electrode portion and the first electrode portion being configured to perform high-frequency treatment on the treatment object grasped between the second electrode portion and the first gasping member, and

at least one of the first surface of the first electrode portion and the second surface of the second electrode portion includes a narrowing width section disposed at a narrowing position different from a stress concentrating position where a stress due to ultrasonic vibration tends to concentrate in the first grasping member with respect to a longitudinal direction when the treatment object is grasped between the second grasping member and the first grasping member, the narrowing width section being configured to make a distance between the first surface and the second surface at the narrowing position narrower than a distance between the first surface and the second surface at positions other than the narrowing position.

2. The surgical operating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the narrowing width section includes a projecting electrode portion which is provided to the second electrode portion, and which projects toward the first surface of the first electrode portion, the projecting electrode portion being configured to narrow a distance between the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion at the narrowing position.

3. The surgical operating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the second electrode portion includes a metallic electrode body and a pad member which is formed of an insulator attached to the electrode body, and

the pad member includes an engaging groove for alignment between the second electrode portion and the first electrode portion, the engaging groove being engaged with the first electrode portion.

4. The surgical operating apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the projecting electrode portion is a projection portion which is opposed to the first electrode portion, and which projects from the electrode body toward the first surface of the first electrode portion, the projection portion being configured to narrow the distance between the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion at the narrowing position in a state when the first electrode portion is engaged in the engaging groove of the pad member, and the projection portion being configured to form a spark point at the narrowing position by firstly contacting with the first surface of the first electrode portion at the narrowing position when the distance between the first electrode portion and the second electrode is decreased due to wear of the pad member.

5. The surgical operating apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the projection portion is configured such that a separate projection portion forming member is fixed to the electrode body.

6. The surgical operating apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the projection portion is formed integral with the electrode body.

7. The surgical operating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the narrowing width section includes a projecting electrode portion which is provided to the first electrode portion, and which projects toward the second surface of the second electrode portion, the projecting electrode portion being configured to narrow a distance between the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion at the narrowing position.

8. The surgical operating apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the second electrode portion includes a metallic electrode body and a pad member which is formed of an insulator attached to the electrode body,

the pad member includes an engaging groove for alignment between the second electrode portion and the first electrode portion, the engaging groove being engaged with the first electrode portion, and

the projecting electrode portion is a projection portion which is opposed to the electrode body of the second electrode portion, and which projects from the first electrode portion toward the second surface of the second electrode portion, the projection portion being configured to narrow the distance between the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion at the narrowing position in a state when the first electrode portion is engaged in the engaging groove of the pad member.

9. The surgical operating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first grasping member has a center axis, a distal end portion and a proximal end portion, the first electrode portion including a first curved-shaped portion which is curved relative to an axial direction of the center axis, and

the second grasping member includes a second curved-shaped portion which is curved in a curved shape corresponding to the first curved-shaped portion.