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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:
Sep. 14, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 15, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Gebrueder Berchtold GmbH & Co., Tuttlingen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
606 37 ; 606 39 ; 606 40 ;
Abstract
A high-frequency surgical apparatus has a plurality of different operating modes, such as monopolar, tripolar, bipolar, at least one function such as cutting, coagulation in each operating mode and at least one operating mode with several functions and also at least one characteristic within each function which can be selected by one switching key in each case. In accordance with the invention an operating mode selection key is provided for each operating mode. At least some of the switching keys are associated with several operating mode selection keys. On actuating at least one of the operating mode selection keys several of the switching keys are blocked.