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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. 16, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2010
Applicants:
Jacques Hamou, Paris, FR;
Markus Simmen, Schwerzenbach, CH;
Otmar Stillhard, Steckborn, CH;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG, , DE;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 18/14 (2006.01); A61B 17/32 (2006.01); A61B 18/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 18/1485 (2013.01); A61B 2018/1407 (2013.01); A61B 219/2269 (2013.01); A61B 2018/1861 (2013.01); A61B 17/32002 (2013.01);
Abstract
A medical resector for oblating, cutting, or coagulating human or animal tissue includes a rotatable high-frequency electrode on the distal end of a shaft of the medical resector and an axle that runs from the proximal end to the distal end of the shaft and is mechanically coupled with the high-frequency electrode on the distal end. The axle is positioned on the distal end of the shaft in the center or as close as possible to the center of the cross-section of the shaft and on the proximal end of the shaft on the border or as close as possible to the border of the cross-section of the shaft.