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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2019
Covidien Lp, Mansfield, MA (US);
Grant T. Sims, Boulder, CO (US);
Kelley D. Goodman, Erie, CO (US);
Craig V. Krastins, Arvada, CO (US);
Robert F. Mccullough, Jr., Boulder, CO (US);
Daniel W. Mercier, Erie, CO (US);
Jennifer L. Rich, Parker, CO (US);
COVIDIEN LP, Mansfield, MA (US);
Abstract
A method of assembling a jaw member of an electrosurgical forceps includes aligning in vertical registration an electrically conductive seal plate, an insulative spacer and a jaw support. The method further includes stacking the seal plate atop the insulative spacer and the jaw support such that a flange depending from the seal plate seats within a corresponding cavity defined within a flange depending from the insulative spacer which, in turn, seats within a cavity defined within the jaw support. The method further includes mechanically securing the seal plate, insulative spacer and jaw support to one another and securing a jaw housing to surround the jaw support, the insulative spacer and the seal plate.