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Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 1999

Filed:

Dec. 11, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:

Thomas G Capetan, Corona Del Mar, CA (US);

Donald M Cohen, Irvine, CA (US);

Assignee:

Alcon Laboratories, Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
604 27 ;
Abstract

A surgical handpiece having at least two lumens mounted to a body. One lumen is used for aspiration, the second lumen is used to inject heated surgical fluid for liquefying a cataractous lens. A portion of the second lumen is surrounded by an insulated heating element that heats the surgical fluid as it passes through the second lumen. The handpiece may also contain a device for delivering the surgical fluid through the second lumen in metered pulses of a defined volume.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Capetan, Thomas. (1999). Liquefaction handpiece (U.S. Patent No. 5885243). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/5885243

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