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Hourglass-shaped knife for electrosurgical forceps

Granted 18 Mar 2008 · no office action yet

Current assignee: TYCO HEALTHCARE GROUP AG · originally Sherwood Services AG

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Inventors: Michael C. Moses, Edward Chojin · Examiner: Antoine D. Davis · AU 2916 · TC 2900

Application
29/215,056
filed 13 Oct 2004
Publication
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US D564662
granted 18 Mar 2008

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a perspective view of my…

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of my design of a hourglass shaped knife for use with an electrosurgical forceps (shown in phantom representation);

FIG. 2 is a right side view of the hourglass-shaped knife of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a bottom view of the hourglass-shaped knife of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a rear view of the hourglass-shaped knife of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a top view of the hourglass-shaped knife of FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a left side view of the hourglass-shaped knife of FIG. 1; and,

FIG. 7 is a front view of the hourglass-shaped knife of FIG. 1.

The broken line showing is for illustrative purposes only and forms no part of the claimed design.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D24/144

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