Surgical instrument having self-regulated electrical skin-depth heating of its cutting edge and method of using the same
CA 1077366 A · Owner: Shaw, Robert F. · Inventors: Shaw, Robert F.
Overview
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Abstract of the Disclosure The cutting edge of a scalpel blade is resistively heated to a preselected constant temperature range by conduction of high frequency electrical currents within variable skin depths of a ferromagnetic conductor that is disposed on the blade in the region of the cutting edge.
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- Granted May 13, 1980. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended May 13, 1997.
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