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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2021
Covidien Lp, Mansfield, MA (US);
Lan Chang, Shanghai, CN;
Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US);
Abstract
A surgical stapling instrument () includes anvil and cartridge portions () operably coupled together. The anvil and cartridge portions () are transitionable between clamped and unclamped configurations. The surgical stapling instrument () also includes a clamp detection assembly () with a plunger () slidably disposed in a chamber () of a housing (), a block () with an aperture () attached to the plunger (), a spring () disposed in the chamber (), and a button () slidably disposed in a recess () of the anvil portion (). The spring () biases the plunger () and block () towards the cartridge portion () such that the aperture () is out of alignment with the button () in the unclamped configuration and engagement of the plunger () with a bridge () of the cartridge portion () translates the plunger () and the block () away from the opening of the chamber () such that the aperture () is aligned with the button () in the clamped configuration.
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