Electrosurgical device with LED adapter

• US 8,506,565 B2
• Filed: 08/23/2007
• Issued: 08/13/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Covidien LP (Medtronic Plc)
• Original Assignee: Covidien LP (Medtronic Plc)
• Inventors: DeCarlo, Arnold V.
• Primary Examiner(s): Peffley, Michael
• Assistant Examiner(s): GOOD, SAMANTHA M
• Application Number:
  US11/895,200
• Publication Number:
  US 20090054890A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,182 Days
• Field of Search: 606/41, 606/45, 606/1, 606/42
• US Class Current: 606/42
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/1402 Probes for open surgery
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2018/1495 Electrodes being detachable from a support structure
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2090/309 using white LEDs
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/36 Image-producing devices or illumination devices not otherwise provided for

Abstract

The present disclosure includes an electrosurgical instrument which further includes a housing having distal and proximal ends. The electrosurgical instrument also includes a light-emitting diode adapter having distal and proximal ends configured to selectively engage the distal end of the housing. The light-emitting diode adapter also includes at least one light-emitting diode disposed therein. The light-emitting diode is adapted to connect to an electrosurgical energy source and being selectively activatable to emit light from the adapter. The at least one electrode is configured to selectively engage the distal end of the light-emitting diode adapter and adapted to connect to the electrosurgical energy source.

Claims

1. An electrosurgical instrument, comprising:

a housing having a distal end and a proximal end;

an adapter having a proximal end including a collar configured to engage the distal end of the housing, and a distal end including a coupling interface, the adapter including at least one light source disposed therein, the light source adapted to connect to an electrosurgical energy source to emit light from the adapter; and

at least one end effector having a proximal end configured to selectively engage the coupling interface on the distal end of the adapter and adapted to connect to the electrosurgical energy source,

wherein the adapter is electrically coupled to the electrosurgical instrument, and the at least one end effector is electrically coupled to the electrosurgical instrument through the adapter.

2. The electrosurgical instrument according to claim 1, wherein the housing includes at least one switch that activates the end effector or the light source.

3. The electrosurgical instrument according to claim 2, wherein the switch simultaneously activates the light source and the end effector.

4. The electrosurgical instrument according to claim 1, wherein the light source includes at least one light-emitting diode.

5. The electrosurgical instrument according to claim 4, further comprising at least one switch that selectively activates at least one of the light-emitting diode and the end effector.

6. The electrosurgical instrument according to claim 1, wherein the light source is selectively activatable by a footswitch.

7. The electrosurgical instrument according to claim 1, wherein the adapter emits at least one color.

8. The electrosurgical instrument according to claim 1, wherein the adapter emits a plurality of colors.

9. The electrosurgical instrument according to claim 1, wherein the adapter emits light having an intermittent pattern.

10. The electrosurgical instrument according to claim 1, wherein the adapter simultaneously emits at least one intermittent pattern and at least one color.

11. The electrosurgical instrument according to claim 1, wherein the adapter includes a mechanical interface that selectively engages the end effector.

12. The electrosurgical instrument according to claim 1, wherein the electrosurgical instrument is an electrosurgical pencil, an electrosurgical scalpel, an electrosurgical forceps, or an electrosurgical probe.

13. The electrosurgical instrument according to claim 1, wherein a distal end of the end effector is configured to include the shape of a blade electrode, a needle electrode, a ball electrode, a angled ball electrode, a loop electrode, or a conization electrode.

14. An electrosurgical system, comprising:

an electrosurgical generator;

an electrosurgical instrument selectively connectable to the electrosurgical generator, the electrosurgical instrument including;

a housing having a distal end and a proximal end;

a light-emitting diode adapter having a proximal end including a collar configured to engage the distal end of the housing, and a distal end including a coupling interface, the light-emitting diode adapter including at least one light-emitting diode disposed therein, the light-emitting diode adapted to connect to an electrosurgical energy source and being selectively activatable to emit light from the adapter; and

at least one end effector having a proximal end configured to selectively engage the coupling interface on the distal end of the light-emitting diode adapter and adapted to connect to the electrosurgical energy source,

wherein the light-emitting diode adapter is electrically coupled to the electrosurgical instrument, and the at the one end effector is electrically coupled to the electrosurgical instrument through the light-emitting diode adapter.