Patent ID: 8915913

Claim:
An electrosurgical instrument, comprising: two gripping parts which can be brought together into a gripping direction or moved apart counter to the gripping direction, wherein each gripping part includes, one bending region including at least one first and second limbs, the at least one first and second limbs being spaced apart from each other in the gripping direction, wherein at least the first limbs of the gripping parts are arranged inside a guide sleeve and can be moved relative to the second limbs in a longitudinal direction of the guide sleeve such that, with relative movement of the first limbs in the longitudinal direction, the respective gripping parts are moved in the gripping direction, wherein the first limbs are electrically insulated from each other, and at least one gripping part comprises three or more electrically conductive sections, electrically insulated relative to each other, that extend in the longitudinal direction of the instrument, and each of the conductive sections is electrically connected to a pair of the at least one first and second limbs, respectively, and wherein each pair of first and second limbs is electrically insulated with respect to each other and can be separately connected to an RF current generator such that each electrically conductive section can be configured in various electrical configurations by the RF current generator.