- Patent Title: Link unit, arm module, and surgical apparatus including the same
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Application No.: US13759506Application Date: 2013-02-05
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Publication No.: US09604370B2Publication Date: 2017-03-28
- Inventor: Heum Yong Park , Yong Jae Kim , Jeong Hun Kim , Youn Baek Lee
- Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: KR Gyeonggi-do
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Gyeonggi-do
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: KR10-2012-0011893 20120206
- Main IPC: B25J18/06
- IPC: B25J18/06 ; F16C11/04 ; A61B1/005 ; B25J9/10 ; A61B1/00 ; A61B17/115 ; A61B17/00 ; A61B90/50

Abstract:
A surgical apparatus having sufficient rigidity in a fixed mode and being freely operable in a steering mode includes one or more arm modules having at least one degree of freedom, each arm module including at least one steering cable to steer the arm module and a plurality of link units to form the at least one arm module, each link unit including a head disposed at an upper portion thereof and having a hemispherical shape, a seat formed at a lower portion thereof, and a sliding ball arranged at the seat, wherein the link units are arranged such that the head of one of the link units is seated on the seat of the other of the link units, and the head of one of the link units and the seat of the other of the link units are slid with respect to each other by the sliding ball.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130199327A1 LINK UNIT, ARM MODULE, AND SURGICAL APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2013-08-08
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