Patent ID: 7011656

Claim:
A medical device comprising: a pair of tweezers characterized by a first arm and a second arm, each of said arm having a proximal end and distal end, said first arm having a first gripping face disposed on the distal end thereof, said second arm having second gripping face disposed on the distal end thereof, said gripping faces being defining surfaces generally perpendicular to a plane defined by the grasping arms, said surfaces being movable into apposition with each other upon closing of the tweezers; a first layer of resilient material disposed on the gripping face of the first arm; a second layer of resilient material disposed on the gripping face of the second arm; a resistive heating element disposed between of the first and second layers of resilient material so as to be trapped between the gripping faces of the first and second arm upon closing of the tweezers; and a thermally conductive plate being also electrically insulative disposed between the resistive heating element and a gripping face of the first arm.