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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4361926 | Cautery cleaning device A cautery cleaning device including a thumb and fingertip manipulated support member with rubber-like properties through which a cautery blade is guided and in which scraping edges are supported and held in contact with the blade. The support member is co... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4347842 | Disposable electrical surgical suction tube and instrument An expendable electrosurgical flexible suction tube for use with a cauterizer surgical instrument which combines the suction and power supply utilized in micro electrosurgical procedures. The disposable suction tube has metallic electrical contacts built ... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4333467 | Nonstick conductive coating An electrically conductive non-stick coating for a substrate for making electrical contact with external materials comprising a layer of conductive material adherently deposited on the substrate and a superposed layer of organic non-stick material on said... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4314559 | Nonstick conductive coating In a preferred embodiment, there is provided a conductive non-stick electrode for use with a hemostatic tissue cutting scalpel wherein, a first layer of conductive material having a textured working surface for contacting tissue is adherently deposited al... | 02/09/1982 |
| 4307720 | Electrocautery apparatus and method and means for cleaning the same An improved electrocautery instrument includes a manually retractable-extendable electrode-blade with a vacuum channel disposed therebeneath. A guide in close-spaced relationship to the electrode-blade at the end of the instrument facilitates the scraping... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4289132 | Surgical instrument and method of using the same A surgical instrument has a slender rod with a sharp point which is pushed inside out through skin tissue at a location remote from an incision so that the rod can be manipulated to perform a surgical procedure at the remote location by means of a surgica... | 09/15/1981 |
| 4269174 | Transcutaneous vasectomy apparatus and method An apparatus and method is provided for initially anesthesizing the vas deferens of a male patient and then cauterizing the vas deferens to thereby permanently sterilize the male. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a container to house an anestheti... | 05/26/1981 |
| 4170234 | System for use with electro-surgical pencil Electro-surgical pencils are used with a variety of commercially available machines which produce two different types of electrical impulses--one for cutting, the other for cauterizing. In the system of this invention there is a pencil having an electrode... | 10/09/1979 |
| 4103688 | Method and apparatus for sterilization A method and apparatus for sterilization wherein a flexible, non-resilient, filamentar electrode having an exposed cauterizing tip at one end thereof, and having a thin, dielectric, lubricous covering insulating the electrode up to the exposed tip, is ins... | 08/01/1978 |
| 4060088 | Electrosurgical method and apparatus for establishing an electrical discharge in an inert gas flow An electrosurgical method and apparatus for coagulating by fulguration where the electrical discharge is established through a formation of flowing inert gas where the formation may either be a diffuse blanket of the flowing gas or a well defined column t... | 11/29/1977 |
| 4057064 | Electrosurgical method and apparatus for initiating an electrical discharge in an inert gas flow A method and apparatus for initiating an electrical discharge in a formation of flowing inert gas disposed adjacent the end of an electrode by generating charged particles in the vicinity of said inert gas formation. The charged particles may be generated... | 11/08/1977 |
| 4040426 | Electrosurgical method and apparatus for initiating an electrical discharge in an inert gas flow A method and apparatus for initiating an electrical discharge in a formation of flowing inert gas disposed adjacent the end of an active electrode by generating charged particles in the vicinity of said inert gas formation. The charged particles are gener... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4034761 | Disposable electrosurgical switching assembly A disposable electrosurgical unit for generating electrical signals intended for applications to the body of a patient via an electrosurgical electrode is provided. Cutting signals and coagulation signals can be applied by the actuation of a switch in the... | 07/12/1977 |
| 4014343 | Detachable chuck for electro-surgical instrument A generally flat insulator chuck is arranged to retain surgical electrodes so that the working area of the electrodes extends externally on one end and an electrical circuit accomodating prong is contained within a recessed chamber at the other end. The r... | 03/29/1977 |
| 4013978 | Lasers and photocoagulators A photocoagulator is described incorporating a selected light source. The selected light source is a waveguide laser of the type using an active liquid comprising a dye in solution. The laser is so constructed that a cell containing the active liquid and a ... | 03/22/1977 |
| 4011693 | Cleaner for cauterizing implements A cleaner for cauterizing implements, involving a mounting member one side of which is adapted to be secured by pressure sensitive adhesive to a surgical towel or drape and the other side being provided with upstanding parallel backing strips between whic... | 03/15/1977 |
| 3982357 | Cleaning device for cauterizing knives A cleaning device for cauterizing knives presterilized for single surgical use and including a supporting frame adapted to be attached to a towel or drape used in surgery and held by an atraumatic clip also used in surgery, the frame containing a pair of ... | 09/28/1976 |
| 3978312 | Variable temperature electric cautery assembly A variable temperature portable cautery includes a housing configured to retain a voltage source, such as a plurality of batteries, and an electrically heated cautery tip carried by the front end of the housing in operative relation with each other. A man... | 08/31/1976 |
| 3974833 | Disposable electrosurgical cautery having optional suction control feature A disposable electrosurgical cautery which functions in a dual capacity as a hollow sucker tube as well as a cauterizer, and is intended to be prepackaged in sterilized preferably envelope-type containers, to be used once and disposed of. The cautery cons... | 08/17/1976 |
| 3961630 | Protective circuit for radio-frequency electrosurgical device An electrosurgical device in which high frequency electrical energy powers a cutting electrode. Radio frequency energy is set up in a driver coil and a driven coil mounted in a handpiece. The driver coil energizes the driven coil to energize a surgical el... | 06/08/1976 |
| 3945375 | Rotatable surgical instrument An instrument for removing tissue including a rotatable fluted cutter member housed in a probe adapted to be inserted into a portion of a body from which tissue is to be removed. The instrument can supply irrigation fluid through the probe to the area bei... | 03/23/1976 |
