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公开(公告)号：US20210251719A1
公开(公告)日：2021-08-19
申请号：US17306498
申请日：2021-05-03
Applicant: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
Abstract: A medical instrument includes an instrument shaft with exit holes near a distal end of the shaft, a tool coupled to the distal end of the shaft, and a backend. The backend may include a mechanism that manipulates a drive element that extends through the shaft and couples to the tool, a fluid inlet, and a fluid channel assembly providing fluid communication between the fluid inlet and the proximal end of the shaft. Cleaning fluid is directed into the fluid inlet, through the fluid channel assembly, and into the shaft. A chassis or other structural piece of the backend may form part of the fluid channel assembly.
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公开(公告)号：US20240315792A1
公开(公告)日：2024-09-26
申请号：US18591811
申请日：2024-02-29
Applicant: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
CPC classification number: A61B34/71 , A61B34/00 , A61B34/30 , A61B2017/00477 , A61B17/29 , A61B2017/2903 , A61B2017/2929 , A61B2034/715 , A61B2090/371
Abstract: A medical instrument includes cable pairs respectively wound around input spindles and connected to actuate degrees of freedom of an instrument shaft structure. The cables may connect so that rotating the input spindles actuates corresponding degrees of freedom. First pulleys in the instrument may receive first cables from the input spindles and redirect the first cables toward the instrument shaft, and second pulleys may receive second cables from the input spindles and redirect the second cables toward the instrument shaft. In one configuration, the first and second pulleys are respectively mounted at first and second levels, and the second pulleys redirect the second cables through the first level. Additionally or alternatively, one level of cables may cross while the other level of cables does not.
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公开(公告)号：US20240090972A1
公开(公告)日：2024-03-21
申请号：US18376726
申请日：2023-10-04
Applicant: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
CPC classification number: A61B90/70 , A61B34/30 , B08B9/032 , A61B2017/2908 , A61B2034/302
Abstract: A medical instrument includes an instrument shaft with exit holes near a distal end of the shaft, a tool coupled to the distal end of the shaft, and a backend. The backend may include a mechanism that manipulates a drive element that extends through the shaft and couples to the tool, a fluid inlet, and a fluid channel assembly providing fluid communication between the fluid inlet and the proximal end of the shaft. Cleaning fluid is directed into the fluid inlet, through the fluid channel assembly, and into the shaft. A chassis or other structural piece of the backend may form part of the fluid channel assembly.
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公开(公告)号：US20220354598A1
公开(公告)日：2022-11-10
申请号：US17726773
申请日：2022-04-22
Applicant: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
Inventor： Donald ALDEN , Bram Gilbert Antoon LAMBRECHT
IPC: A61B34/30
Abstract: A method for providing a visual indication regarding a state of an instrument comprises sensing usage information about the instrument and using a motor to rotate an indicator body from a first position to a second position in response to sensing the usage information meets a predetermined condition. The method further comprises holding the indicator body in the first position or the second position, respectively. In the first position a first portion of the indicator body is visible on an exterior of the instrument and in the second position a second portion is visible. In the first position, the first portion of the indicator body provides a visual indication that the usage information of the instrument does not meet the predetermined condition, and in the second position the second portion of the visual indicator body provides a visual indication that the usage information of the instrument meets the predetermined condition.
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15.发明申请公开(公告)号：US20170231703A1
公开(公告)日：2017-08-17
申请号：US15503313
申请日：2015-08-13
Applicant: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
Inventor： Mark A. DIEL , Bram Gilbert Antoon LAMBRECHT
CPC classification number: A61B34/35 , A61B17/00234 , A61B34/70 , A61B34/71 , A61B2017/00398 , A61B2017/2902 , A61B2017/294 , A61B2017/2943 , A61B2017/2944 , A61B2090/034 , F16H25/08
Abstract: A force transmission mechanism for a surgical instrument includes a worm drive, a lever arm, and an actuation element. The lever arm may include a follower member at a first end of the lever arm. The follower member engages the worm drive and is configured to be driven by the worm drive. The actuation element is connected the lever arm. The actuation element is configured to transmit force to actuate an end effector of the surgical instrument. Rotational movement of the worm drive imparts translational movement to the actuation element via the lever arm.
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公开(公告)号：US20240156555A1
公开(公告)日：2024-05-16
申请号：US18531880
申请日：2023-12-07
Applicant: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
Inventor： Bram Gilbert Antoon LAMBRECHT , Robert E. HOLOP
CPC classification number: A61B34/35 , A61B34/30 , A61B46/10 , A61B90/57 , A61B2017/00477
Abstract: A medical instrument includes a backend and a pair of release elements. The backend includes a docking feature shaped to engage a docking structure such as a docking port of a surgical robot or a sterile adaptor for a surgical robot. Each release element is coupled to the backend and may include an activation feature on one side of the backend and a push tab extending from either an opposite side or the same side of the backend. Movement of the activation features moves the push tabs from being aligned with the docking feature to pushing on the docking structure, permitting the medical instrument to be disengaged from the docking structure. Optionally, a coupling of the release elements limits a movement of the activation features.
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公开(公告)号：US20230290495A1
公开(公告)日：2023-09-14
申请号：US18007027
申请日：2021-07-27
Applicant: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
Inventor： Bram Gilbert Antoon LAMBRECHT , John Ryan STEGER
Abstract: A manipulator device management system can include a manipulator device comprising a plurality of manipulator arms and a control system. The control system can have one or more processors configured to perform operations comprising: selecting, for a first manipulator arm of the plurality of manipulator assemblies, a first assignment from a plurality of assignments available to the first manipulator arm; and causing the first manipulator arm to adopt the first assignment. The first assignment can be available to at least two manipulator arms of the plurality of manipulator arms. The first assignment can designate at least one operating parameter selected from the group consisting of a location for the first manipulator arm and a type of instrument to be used with the first manipulator arm.
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18.发明公开公开(公告)号：US20230285096A1
公开(公告)日：2023-09-14
申请号：US18007021
申请日：2021-07-27
Applicant: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
Inventor： Bram Gilbert Antoon LAMBRECHT , John Ryan STEGER
CPC classification number: A61B34/35 , A61B34/25 , A61B90/06 , A61B90/08 , A61B2034/305
Abstract: A device management system can include a device comprising a drive assembly configured to removably couple with an instrument. The drive assembly can include a plurality of drive elements configured to cause movement of the instrument by driving a plurality of input elements of the instrument. A control system can include a processor configured select, for a first drive element of the plurality of drive elements, a first assignment from a plurality of assignments, the first assignment being available to at least two drive elements of the plurality of drive elements. The first assignment can be associated with a first pairing of the first drive element with a first input element of the plurality of input elements. The processor can be configured to cause the first drive element to adopt the first assignment.
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公开(公告)号：US20210220062A1
公开(公告)日：2021-07-22
申请号：US17223723
申请日：2021-04-06
Applicant: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
Inventor： Bram Gilbert Antoon LAMBRECHT , Thomas G. COOPER
Abstract: A medical instrument includes a roll mechanism that rotates an instrument shaft. The roll mechanism may include a first gear coupled to the instrument shaft and meshed with a second gear. One of gears may be a spur gear while the other gear may be a beveloid gear. Further, the spur gear and the beveloid gear may be in a gear train containing a compressible gear, e.g., a gear with an inner center piece, an outer ring, and a flexible interconnecting structure between the inner center piece and the outer ring. With a compressible gear, an interference fit of in the gear train may be within manufacturing variations of the gear train, and the compressible gear may deflect radially away from the interference fit.
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公开(公告)号：US20190307522A1
公开(公告)日：2019-10-10
申请号：US16317235
申请日：2017-06-22
Applicant: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
Abstract: A medical instrument includes cable pairs respectively wound around input spindles and connected to actuate degrees of freedom of an instrument shaft structure. The cables may connect so that rotating the input spindles actuates corresponding degrees of freedom. First pulleys in the instrument may receive first cables from the input spindles and redirect the first cables toward the instrument shaft, and second pulleys may receive second cables from the input spindles and redirect the second cables toward the instrument shaft. In one configuration, the first and second pulleys are respectively mounted at first and second levels, and the second pulleys redirect the second cables through the first level. Additionally or alternatively, one level of cables may cross while the other level of cables does not.
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