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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:
Jul. 20, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Gebrueder Berchtold GmbH & Co., Tuttlingen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
606 45 ; 606 46 ;
Abstract
A trocar for laparoscopic operations on patients has a tube and high frequency connections in the region of the front end of the tube which can be connected to a high frequency generator. A cutting bar is axially displaceable in the tube and can be fixed in a cutting position. The high frequency connections and electrosurgical cutting device connected to the latter are arranged at the front end of the cutting bar.