Patent ID: 8061014

Claim:
A method for assembling an ultrasonic surgical assembly, the method comprising: providing an ultrasonic-movement-generator assembly including: a shell; an ultrasonic-driving-wave-signal generating circuit housed within the shell; and an ultrasonic transducer having an ultrasonic-movement-producing distal end housed within the shell and a proximal end exposed out from the shell; providing an ultrasonic waveguide; providing a handle body having: an ultrasonic-signal-generator assembly dock exposed to the environment and shaped to selectively removably couple the shell to the handle body; an ultrasonic transducer attachment dock exposed to the environment and shaped to selectively removably receive the ultrasonic transducer at the handle body; and a waveguide attachment dock exposed to the environment and shaped to selectively removably couple the ultrasonic waveguide to the ultrasonic transducer when the shell is coupled to the ultrasonic-signal-generator assembly dock; substantially simultaneously: electrically coupling the ultrasonic-driving-wave-signal generating circuit to the ultrasonic-signal-generator assembly dock; and inserting the ultrasonic-movement-producing distal end of the ultrasonic transducer into the ultrasonic transducer attachment dock; inserting the ultrasonic waveguide into the waveguide attachment dock; and rotating the ultrasonic waveguide with respect to the proximal end to fixedly couple the ultrasonic waveguide to the ultrasonic-movement-producing distal end of the ultrasonic transducer.