Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Surgical drape cooling
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Application No.: US16126102Application Date: 2018-09-10
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Publication No.: US11628029B2Publication Date: 2023-04-18
- Inventor: Alec Paul Robertson , Simon Peter DiMaio , Kollin Myles Tierling , Theodore W. Rogers
- Applicant: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: A61B46/10
- IPC: A61B46/10 ; A61B34/35 ; A61B17/29 ; A61B34/30 ; F25D17/08 ; A61B17/00 ; A61B50/00

Abstract:
A surgical system drape includes: a sheath having an interior cavity sized to cover a portion of a surgical system manipulator; an adaptor coupled to the sheath and including a manipulator interface and an instrument interface, the manipulator interface configured to couple with a drive interface of the manipulator, the instrument interface being configured to couple with a drive interface of a surgical instrument mounted to the manipulator; and a fluid conduit coupled to the sheath and extending within the interior cavity of the sheath, the fluid conduit configured to receive a flow of cooling fluid at a fluid port and convey the fluid along the interior cavity of the sheath to cool a component of a portion of the manipulator.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190076204A1 SURGICAL DRAPE COOLING Public/Granted day:2019-03-14
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