APPARATUS FOR ROBOTIC INSTRUMENT HAVING VARIABLE FLEXIBILITY AND TORQUE TRANSMISSION
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    发明申请
    APPARATUS FOR ROBOTIC INSTRUMENT HAVING VARIABLE FLEXIBILITY AND TORQUE TRANSMISSION 审中-公开
    具有可变灵活性和扭矩传递的机器人仪器的设备

    公开(公告)号:US20090062602A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-03-05

    申请号:US12182980

    申请日:2008-07-30

    IPC分类号: A61B1/00 A61M25/00

    摘要: A flexible spine for use in one or more surgical instruments including a catheter and/or sheath of a robotic instrument system. The spine includes an elongate body that defines a central lumen and that is a unitary structure having a plurality of discrete sections, each of which has a distinguishing structural attribute that differentiates it from the other sections. Such distinguishing structural attributes may include, without limitation, materials, material attributes, shapes, sizes and/or attributes related to apertures in a wall of the elongate body, such as a number, shape, size, spacing and degree of overlap of such apertures. The arrangement of discrete, structurally different sections results in varying flexibility of the elongate spine and of corresponding sections of a surgical instrument incorporating the spine.

    摘要翻译: 用于一个或多个手术器械的柔性脊柱,包括机器人仪器系统的导管和/或护套。 脊柱包括限定中心腔的细长体,并且其是具有多个离散部分的单一结构,每个离散部分具有将其与其它部分区分开的区别结构属性。 这种区别的结构属性可以包括但不限于与细长体的壁中的孔相关的材料,材料属性,形状,尺寸和/或属性,例如这些孔的数量,形状,尺寸,间隔和重叠程度 。 离散的,结构不同的部分的布置导致细长的脊柱和结合脊柱的手术器械的相应部分的变化的灵活性。