Patent ID: 11864783
Assignee: ARCULANT, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  B | IPC A  B

Claim 0:
1. A surgical instrument comprising:
a first lever member including a first flexion portion and a first contacting portion;
a second lever member including a second flexion portion and a second contacting portion, at least one of the first flexion portion and the second flexion portion is dimensioned to have a width less than another portion of the first and the second lever members, the width being dimensioned relative to a plane in which the first lever member and the second lever member rotate, the plane being a plane of rotation, at least one of the first lever member and the second lever member having a substantially straight shape in the plane between a flexion portion and a contacting portion; and
a coupling member configured to couple the first lever member to the second lever member, and further configured to position the first flexion portion of the first lever member and the second flexion portion of the second lever member at a first distance in the plane of rotation between the first and the second flexion portions,
wherein one or more of the first lever member and the second lever member is configured to receive one or more first applied forces at one or more portions of the first lever member and the second lever member to translate the first contacting portion and the second contacting portion into at least a first closing state at which the first contacting portion is positioned at a second distance relative to the second contacting portion to impart the one or more first applied forces relative to the first and the second contacting portions, the second distance being less than the first distance as dimensioned in the plane of rotation,
wherein the one or more of first lever member and the second lever member are further configured to receive one or more second applied forces at the one or more of the portions of the first lever member and the second lever member to translate the first contacting portion and the second contacting portion into at least a second closing state in which a first adjacent portion of the first lever member adjacent the first contacting portion is positioned relative to a second adjacent portion of the second lever member adjacent the second contacting portion, the first lever member and the second lever member are configured to impart the one or more second applied forces at one or more of the first and the second contacting portions and at the first and the second adjacent portions in the second closing state.