Patents by Inventor Dietmar Karwei

Dietmar Karwei has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230309993
    Abstract: The electrosurgical instrument includes an electrode and an insulator arrangement. The latter includes an instrument hose and an insulator arrangement arranged at its distal end. In the instrument hose a longitudinal thrust element is arranged for defining the position of the electrode relative to the distal end of the insulator arrangement. The instrument comprises a stop and a counter stop, whereby the counter stop is assigned to the electrode and/or the thrust element. An elastically deformable device is configured to pretension the counter stop in a distal direction against the stop in order to prevent a movement of the electrode in a proximal direction relative to the distal end of the insulator arrangement and/or the instrument hose during bending or curving of the instrument hose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventor: Dietmar KARWEI
  • Publication number: 20230025184
    Abstract: The electrosurgical instrument comprises a basic body configured as a hose or as a hollow rod on which an end piece is configured or into which an end piece is inserted. The end piece comprises a passage channel that comprises a narrowed section at its distal end. The electrode is held in a holder that comprises an extension surrounding the electrode. The extension is configured to extend through the narrowed section of passage channel up to the end surface such that it outcrops at the mouth opening of the narrowed section when the electrode is in the extended position. At this section of extension located at the mouth opening the electrode is connected with the extension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Dietmar KARWEI, Fabian BADER
  • Patent number: 9649122
    Abstract: An endoscopic surgical instrument including a fluid jet device and an electrode device. The fluid jet device includes a pipe section with a nozzle on one distal end for a dissection and/or a needleless injection by means of a fluid and the electrode device is for cutting and/or coagulating tissue, the pipe section forming the electrode device. The surgical instrument further includes an insulating device attached to the distal end of the pipe section such that the tissue can only be brought into electrically conductive contact with a peripheral region of the pipe section and not with the distal end of the pipe section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH
    Inventor: Dietmar Karwei
  • Patent number: 9622815
    Abstract: An electrode device of an electrosurgical instrument is known, comprising at least one electrically conductive electrode section and an electrically insulating carrier section, wherein both the electrode section and the carrier section are made from a ceramic material. In order to improve the mechanical and electrical properties and in order to simplify the production, a green body of the carrier section and a green body of the electrode section are connected to each other, in particular materially, to form a single composite green body and are jointly sintered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: ERBE ELEKTROMEDIZIN GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Kuehner, Dietmar Karwei
  • Patent number: 9381034
    Abstract: Water jet surgical instruments comprising a feed line for supplying fluid in one flow direction and one exit nozzle for ejecting the fluid in the form of a fine jet displaying a defined geometric opening configuration are known. In order to be able to widen the jet a fluid chamber is provided—viewed in the direction of flow—upstream of the exit nozzle. A disturbance device is provided in or on the fluid chamber, said disturbance device being able to generate a turbulent flow inside the fluid chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: ERBE ELEKTROMEDIZIN GMBH
    Inventor: Dietmar Karwei
  • Publication number: 20150238219
    Abstract: An endoscopic surgical instrument including a fluid jet device and an electrode device. The fluid jet device includes a pipe section with a nozzle on one distal end for a dissection and/or a needleless injection by means of a fluid and the electrode device is for cutting and/or coagulating tissue, the pipe section forming the electrode device. The surgical instrument further includes an insulating device attached to the distal end of the pipe section such that the tissue can only be brought into electrically conductive contact with a peripheral region of the pipe section and not with the distal end of the pipe section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventor: Dietmar Karwei
  • Patent number: 9039703
    Abstract: An endoscopic surgical instrument including a fluid jet device and an electrode device. The fluid jet device includes a pipe section with a nozzle on one distal end for a dissection and/or a needleless injection by means of a fluid and the electrode device is for cutting and/or coagulating tissue, the pipe section forming the electrode device. The surgical instrument further includes an insulating device attached to the distal end of the pipe section such that the tissue can only be brought into electrically conductive contact with a peripheral region of the pipe section and not with the distal end of the pipe section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: ERBE ELEKTROMEDIZIN GMBH
    Inventor: Dietmar Karwei
  • Publication number: 20130226176
    Abstract: An electrode device of an electrosurgical instrument is known, comprising at least one electrically conductive electrode section and an electrically insulating carrier section, wherein both the electrode section and the carrier section are made from a ceramic material. In order to improve the mechanical and electrical properties and in order to simplify the production, a green body of the carrier section and a green body of the electrode section are connected to each other, in particular materially, to form a single composite green body and are jointly sintered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Inventors: Ralf Kuehner, Dietmar Karwei
  • Publication number: 20120065656
    Abstract: Water jet surgical instruments comprising a feed line for supplying fluid in one flow direction and one exit nozzle for ejecting the fluid in the form of a fine jet displaying a defined geometric opening configuration are known. In order to be able to widen the jet it is a fluid chamber is provided—viewed in the direction of flow—upstream of the exit nozzle. A disturbance device is provided in or on the fluid chamber, said disturbance device being able to generate a turbulent flow inside the fluid chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventor: Dietmar Karwei
  • Publication number: 20120035607
    Abstract: An endoscopic surgical instrument including a fluid jet device and an electrode device. The fluid jet device includes a pipe section with a nozzle on one distal end for a dissection and/or a needleless injection by means of a fluid and the electrode device is for cutting and/or coagulating tissue, the pipe section forming the electrode device. The surgical instrument further includes an insulating device attached to the distal end of the pipe section such a manner that the tissue can only be brought into electrically conductive contact with a peripheral region of the pipe section and not with the distal end of the pipe section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Inventor: Dietmar Karwei