Patent ID: 9247987
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: A61B

Claim Text:
1. Electrosurgical gripping instrument, comprising: a handle part; a lower jaw part and an upper jaw part, which can perform a forcipate movement; a first pair of coagulation sections comprising a first lower coagulation section on the lower jaw part and a first upper coagulation section on the upper jaw part; a second pair of coagulation sections comprising a second lower coagulation section on the lower jaw part and a second upper coagulation section on the upper jaw part; and at least one bipolar pair of cutting electrodes between the first pair of coagulation sections and the second pair of coagulation sections, wherein surfaces of the first lower coagulation section and the first upper coagulation section, which face each other, and surfaces of the second lower coagulation section and the second upper coagulation section, which face each other, are larger than surfaces of each of the cutting electrodes of the bipolar pair of cutting electrodes, which faces one of the lower jaw part and the upper jaw part on which the respective cutting electrode is not attached, the instrument is configured to cut tissue along a cutting line, and the at least one bipolar pair of cutting electrodes includes a first cutting electrode and a second cutting electrode that are laterally arranged on opposite sides of an insulator, and the first cutting electrode and the second cutting electrode each have one cutting edge extending along the cutting line.