Device and method for controlling compression of tissue

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8012170
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12430780

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A method and device for controlling the compression of tissue include clamping tissue between a first clamping member and a second clamping member by driving at least one of the clamping members with an electric motor toward a predetermined tissue gap between the clamping members and, during the clamping, monitoring a parameter of the electric motor indicative of a clamping force exerted to the tissue by the clamping members. The method and device include, during the clamping, controlling the electric motor, based on the monitored parameter, to limit the clamping force to a predetermined maximum limit.

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COVIDIEN LP15 HAMPSHIRE STREET MANSFIELD MA 02048

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Malinouskas, Donald Monroe, US 53 36490
Whitman, Michael P New Hope, US 164 138287
Zeichner, David A Oxford, US 32 31140

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