US 11,712,262 B2
Surgical instrument with suction control
Tejas Satish Inamdar, San Francisco, CA (US); Mireille Akilian, Candia, NH (US); and Peter Cesarini, Londonderry, NH (US)
Assigned to Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US)
Filed by Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US)
Filed on Oct. 13, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/69,170.
Application 17/069,170 is a division of application No. 15/580,185, granted, now 10,799,264, issued on Oct. 13, 2020, previously published as PCT/US2016/037372, filed on Jun. 14, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/181,565, filed on Jun. 18, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2021/0022767 A1, Jan. 28, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/3207 (2006.01); A61B 17/32 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/42 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/320758 (2013.01) [A61B 17/32002 (2013.01); A61B 90/03 (2016.02); A61B 17/42 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00398 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00455 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00469 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00477 (2013.01); A61B 2017/4216 (2013.01); A61B 2217/005 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A surgical device, comprising:
an end effector assembly including an outer member and an inner member movable within and relative to the outer member, wherein, in a first arrangement of the end effector assembly, the inner and outer members are locked relative to one another to inhibit a relative movement therebetween and, in a second arrangement of the end effector assembly, the inner and outer members are unlocked relative to one another to permit the relative movement therebetween; and
a handpiece configured to releasably engage the end effector assembly, wherein engagement of the handpiece with the end effector assembly causes relative translation between the inner and outer members to thereby change the end effector assembly from the first arrangement to the second arrangement.