Patent References 426201 1844501 2648719 Endoscope with an operating device Single-pole coagulation forceps Patent #: 4128099 InventorsAssigneeApplicationNo. 06/488379 filed on 04/25/1983US Classes:606/52, With forceps or tweezers174/111With beads or discExaminersPrimary: Cohen, Lee S.Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassA61B 18/14 (20060101)Foreign Application Priority Data1982-05-07 DEAbstractAn insulated electrically conducted shaft for medical coagulation instruments, and particularly for unipolar coagulation instruments is constructed with an insulating jacket consisting of separate conduit pieces formed of insulating material which are slipped onto the shaft. The conduit pieces have abutting end faces which engage adjacent pieces in an overlapping fashion with the overlapping being caused by engagement of two layers of staggered conduit pieces of equal length or by complementary step formed end faces of adjacent conduit pieces or by inner diameter or outer diameter radial dimensioned steppings of the abutting conduit pieces with the resultant gaps filled by filler conduit pieces. | |