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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2017
Ethicon Llc, Guaynabo, PR (US);
Jeffrey S. Swayze, West Chester, OH (US);
Thomas W. Huitema, West Chester, OH (US);
Glen A. Armstrong, Liberty Township, OH (US);
Shailendra Kumar Parihar, Mason, OH (US);
Donna L. Korvick, San Antonio, TX (US);
Richard W. Timm, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Hillsboro, OH (US);
Kevin R. Doll, Mason, OH (US);
Bret W. Smith, South Lebanon, OH (US);
William D. Kelly, Los Altos, CA (US);
Ronald J. Kolata, Raleigh, NC (US);
Joshua R. Uth, Mason, OH (US);
Charles J. Scheib, Loveland, OH (US);
Eugene L. Timperman, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Ethicon LLC, Guaynabo, PR (US);
Abstract
A surgical tool for use with a surgical instrument including a handle assembly and an elongated body defining a longitudinal axis and a drive system is disclosed. The surgical tool comprises a carrier removably couplable to the elongated body, an anvil movably supported for selective movement relative to the carrier in response to drive motions from the drive system, a tissue thickness measuring member movably supported in the carrier and configured to move toward and away from an underside of the anvil in a direction that is transverse to the longitudinal axis, and a sensor arrangement supported between the tissue thickness measuring member and the carrier. The sensor arrangement is configured to interface with an indicator member to provide an indication of a thickness of tissue clamped between the anvil and the tissue thickness measuring member at a location that is proximal to the anvil when in use.