Patent ID: 8403843

Claim:
Illumination apparatus for surgical instruments, comprising: a light source ( 1 ); a power supply source ( 2 ); wiring ( 21 ) for connecting said light source ( 1 ) to said power supply source ( 2 ) and supplying electric energy from said power supply source to said light source; a casing ( 3 ) with internal walls and an outer shell for housing and protecting said light source ( 1 ) and at least a part of said power supply source ( 2 ); said casing ( 3 ) comprising a hollow main body ( 6 ) and a rectangular flap, as viewed from a frontal view, attached to and projecting from the hollow main body so as to form a b-shape from the frontal view, wherein the hollow main body has an elongated conical shape having a front end opening ( 4 ) and a back end opening ( 32 ), the front end opening open to permit the passage of light out of the front end opening of said casing, wherein said rectangular flap has an outward facing planar surface (aa) and an inward facing planar surface (bb) opposite from and parallel to the outward facing planar surface (aa), said rectangular flap ( 7 ) projecting from the hollow main body ( 6 ) along an imaginary line that is tangential in relation to a point on the circumference of the main body ( 6 ); and at least one attaching means ( 5 ) provided with magnetic properties and fixed on the outer shell of the casing ( 3 ), allowing said casing ( 3 ) to be removably and magnetically attached to different surgical metallic instruments as needed during a surgical procedure.