Patent ID: 9028504
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A low-profile blade for an endoscopic knife assembly, comprising: a blade body with a cutting surface, and a tube through which an endoscope is insertable; wherein the blade body having a proximate end, a distal end, an upper edge, and a lower edge, wherein the cutting surface is located at the distal end of the blade body, wherein the cutting surface comprises a top end and a bottom end, and is angled downward so that the top end of the cutting surface is forward of the bottom of the cutting surface, wherein the lower edge extends from the proximate end of the blade body and terminates at the bottom end of the cutting surface; wherein the blade body has non-cutting radiused surfaces at the top end of the cutting surface and a trailing edge on the upper edge of the blade body, and wherein the blade body is sized to fit at a tip of an endoscope and is affixed to the tube by a mounting surface on the lower edge that aligns with and positions the blade on the tube.