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Kevin L. Houser
Researcher at Ethicon Inc.
Publications - 189
Citations - 28830
Kevin L. Houser is an academic researcher from Ethicon Inc.. The author has contributed to research in topics: Surgical instrument & Ultrasonic sensor. The author has an hindex of 81, co-authored 189 publications receiving 28830 citations.
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Articulable ultrasonic surgical apparatus
Kevin L. Houser,Stephen Dimatteo +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an ultrasonic surgical clamp coagulator was configured to effect cutting, coagulation, and clamping of tissue by cooperation of a clamping mechanism of the apparatus with an associated ultrasonic end-effector.
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Ultrasonic surgical system and method
TL;DR: An ultrasonic surgical system has an ultrasonic unit including an instrument operatively connected to a generator, where the instrument has an end effector on the distal end of a shaft and a positioning unit including a movable arm adapted for releasably holding the instrument, whereby an operator may direct the positioning unit to position the end effectors at a surgical site inside a body cavity of a patient for performing a plurality of surgical tasks.
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Active load control of ultrasonic surgical instruments
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a closed loop arrangement that modulates the force applied to tissue from a surgical instrument using a generator and an electrical signal representative of the generator load, where a force responsive element is operatively coupled to the actuating lever and the end-effector.
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Motor driven electrosurgical device with mechanical and electrical feedback
David G. Yates,Aron O. Zingman,Donna L. Korvick,John W. Willis,Ashvani K. Madan,Chad P. Boudreaux,Kevin L. Houser,Danius P. Silkaitis,William D. Dannaher,Foster B. Stulen,Timothy G. Dietz,Richard W. Timm,Robert J. Laird,Omar J. Vakharia,Gavin M. Monson,John V. Hunt +15 more
TL;DR: An electrosurgical device consisting of an end effector, a cutting member, and en electromechanical driver is described in this paper, where the user can provide tactile feedback to the user through the user input feature, based on a load encountered by the cutting member.
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Modular motor driven surgical instruments with status indication arrangements
TL;DR: In this article, a surgical end effector for use in connection with a surgical instrument is presented, where the end effectors are configured for operable attachment to the surgical instrument and a status assembly arrangement is provided to provide an indication on the end-effector housing of a linear location of at least one of the actuators.