US 11,723,634 B2
Adapter assembly for attaching a lighting device to a handheld electrosurgical instrument
James Komsa, Shelton, CT (US); Vinod V. Pathy, Madison, CT (US); Gennady Kleyman, Brooklyn, NY (US); and Mikiya Silver, New Haven, CT (US)
Assigned to Pathy Medical, LLC, Shelton, CT (US)
Filed by Pathy Medical, LLC, Shelton, CT (US)
Filed on Aug. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/878,481.
Application 17/878,481 is a continuation of application No. 16/653,085, filed on Oct. 15, 2019, granted, now 11,426,150.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/746,927, filed on Oct. 17, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0361860 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 90/30 (2016.01); F21Y 115/10 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 17/00 (2013.01) [A61B 90/30 (2016.02); A61B 2017/00017 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00486 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00734 (2013.01); F21Y 2115/10 (2016.08)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An adapter assembly for attaching a lighting device to a handheld surgical instrument comprising:
a) a conical sleeve having an interior bore configured to engage a distal end portion of the surgical instrument at a position along a central axis thereof; and
b) a housing formed integral with and extending radially outwardly from the conical sleeve and having an interior chamber for supporting the lighting device, which includes an LED light source and a lens located at a distal end of the housing to define the illumination axis of the lighting device, wherein the illumination axis of the lighting device angularly intersects the central axis of the surgical instrument, and wherein the interior bore of the conical sleeve and the interior chamber of the housing are separated from one another by a shared interior wall.