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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2000
Tenny Chang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Charles Gresl, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Lunsford, San Carlos, CA (US);
Jon A. Sherman, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Theodore A. Richardson, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Origin Medsystems, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
Surgical scissors include a pair of scissor blades mounted at a distal end of an elongated flexible body and a housing attached to the proximal end of the elongated body. An actuator is coupled with mechanical advantage to the scissor blades for manually controlling shearing movement of the blades in response to finger movement on the actuator back and forth along the housing. Electrical conductors are provided through body and housing from a connector to the scissor blades. The housing is configured to be assembled in mating shells with components assembled in and confined by attached shells that facilitate rapid and accurate fabrication.