Surgical instrument
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorHugo Matthieu Visser
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a surgical instrument. In particular the invention relates to a surgical instrument applicable in endoscopic surgery. In order to provide a simple and cheap solution for indicating the distance between a surgical instrument and its target, a surgical instrument (1) is suggested, which comprises a number of optical members (20, 21) to provide a diverging light emission in the direction of an instrument's target (5) in order to give an indication of the distance (10) between the instrument (1) and its target (5).
Claims11
A surgical instrument, particularly applicable in endoscopic surgery, comprising a number of optical members to provide a diverging light emission in the direction of an instrument's target in order to give an indication of the distance between the instrument and its target.
Use of a number of optical members as parts of a surgical instrument to provide a diverging light emission in the direction of an instrument's target in order to give an indication of the distance between the instrument and its target, particularly in endoscopic surgery.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.