Surgical clamp

摘要

A surgical clamp including a pair of jaws, which may be used to ablate or create lesions in tissue. In an exemplary embodiment, the jaws are movable between an articulated position in which the jaws are separated and not parallel to one another, an opened position in which the jaws are separated and substantially parallel to one another, and a closed position in which the jaws are adjacent and substantially parallel to one another.

主权项

1. A surgical clamp comprising:
an end effector including
a first jaw,a second jaw, anda head including an articulating mechanism, the articulating mechanism including
a first rotating offset mounted to the head and pivotably coupled to the first jaw, anda second rotating offset mounted to the head distal from the first rotating offset and pivotably and slidably coupled to the first jaw; wherein the articulating mechanism articulates the first jaw when the first rotating offset and the second rotating offset are rotated.