Electrosurgical unit with regulated output

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PATENT NO 4574801
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06584954

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An electrosurgical unit having feedforward power regulation. In one embodiment there is an amplifier which produces a pulse modulated electrosurgical output signal. A microprocessor calculates an adjusted pulse width (duty cycle) just sufficient to account for the power changes due to voltage fluctuations. The microprocessor controls the pulse width of the gate voltage of a power transistor in the amplifier to regulate the amplifier output. In another embodiment the supply voltage is fed into the base drive circuitry of an amplifier power transistor through the photo-resistor side of an optoisolator. The lamp brightness of the optoisolator and thus the gain of the base drive circuitry is adjusted by the amplifier power level control. The nonlinearity of the optoisolator complements the nonlinearity of the amplifier so that the net gain in the amplifier drive at any power setting is just sufficient to account for the voltage fluctuation.

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ASPEN LABORATORIES INC A CO CORP181 INVERNESS DRIVE WEST ENGLEWOOD CO 80155

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Manes, Michael R Littleton, CO 10 1089

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