US 11,666,329 B2
Surgical stapling instrument with curved end effector
Jeevan Maddur Shankarsetty, Bangalore (IN); and Hari Naga Mahesh Kalepu, Hyderabad (IN)
Assigned to Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US)
Filed by Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US)
Filed on Feb. 24, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/183,759.
Application 17/183,759 is a continuation of application No. 15/826,837, filed on Nov. 30, 2017, granted, now 10,939,910, issued on Mar. 9, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 201611041364 (IN), filed on Dec. 2, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2021/0177409 A1, Jun. 17, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61B 17/072 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/072 (2013.01) [A61B 90/03 (2016.02); A61B 2017/00407 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00477 (2013.01); A61B 2017/07221 (2013.01); A61B 2017/07228 (2013.01); A61B 2017/07242 (2013.01); A61B 2017/07264 (2013.01); A61B 2017/07271 (2013.01); A61B 2017/07285 (2013.01); A61B 2090/034 (2016.02); A61B 2090/036 (2016.02); A61B 2090/0811 (2016.02); A61B 2090/0814 (2016.02)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A surgical stapling instrument comprising:
an elongated body portion having a distal portion and defining a longitudinal axis; and
an end effector supported on the distal portion of the elongated body portion, the end effector including:
a curved anvil assembly; and
a curved cartridge assembly coupled to the curved anvil assembly, and defining first and second arrays of staples receiving slots and a knife receiving slot, the first array of staple receiving slots consisting of three rows of staple receiving slots and the second array of staple receiving slots consisting of two rows of staple receiving slots, each slot of the first and second arrays of staple receiving slots receiving a staple, the first array of staple receiving slots formed radially outwardly of the knife receiving slot and the second array of staple receiving slots formed radially inwardly of the knife receiving slot, wherein a height of the staples in each row of the three rows of staple receiving slots of the first array of staple receiving slots is different than the height of the staples in each of the other rows of the three rows of staple receiving slots of the first array of staple receiving slots.