Abstract:
A medical device, a clip unit, and a method for indwelling a clip unit. The medical device includes a treatment portion, an operation wire that can operate the treatment portion, and a link that can releasably connect the treatment portion and the operation wire. The link includes a hook that includes first and second deformation portions, and a base that can be releasably coupled to the hook. The first deformation portion is capable of being deformed by movement of the operation wire, and the second deformation portion is capable of being deformed by further movement of the operation portion after the first deformation portion is deformed.
Abstract:
A medical device that includes a clip unit; an operation wire for operating the clip unit; a link capable of linking the clip unit and the operation wire such that the clip unit is engaged with the operation wire; and a sheath. The link can be moved to release an engagement between the operation wire and the clip unit.
Abstract:
A manipulator including: an end effector movable about a joint; a motor configured to generate force so as to move the end effector; a wire for transmitting the force from the motor to the end effector; a guide member connected between the end effector and motor. The guide member including: a guide tube comprising at least one lumen extended in a longitudinal direction, the lumen configured to guide the wire; and an outer sheath configured to cover the guide tube in a longitudinal direction and to move relative to the motor in the longitudinal direction, the outer sheath having a rigidity higher than the guide tube. The manipulator further including an adjusting mechanism configured to adjust a position of the proximal end section of the outer sheath relative to the motor in the longitudinal direction of the guide tube so as to adjust a tensile-force generated on the wire.
Abstract:
A medical manipulator system includes a guide instrument having a treatment tool channel, an insertion body inserted into the treatment tool channel, a power source unit attachable to and detachable from the insertion body, a guide rail having a first region corresponding to a state in which the joint part is located in the treatment tool channel and a second region corresponding to a state in which the joint part is exposed from the distal end of the treatment tool channel, and the guide rail guides the power source unit to advance and retract in a predetermined linear direction defined by the first region and the second region, and a regulating part interposed in a boundary between the first region and the second region and the regulating part regulates a movement of the insertion body from the second region toward the first region.
Abstract:
This treatment instrument adaptor allows a treatment instrument to be rotated about the longitudinal axis while an insertion portion is placed in the body. This treatment instrument adaptor has a cap member attached to a distal end of an insertion portion having a channel and that has a through hole aligned with an opening of the channel; a tubular fitting member attached to the through hole of the cap member so as to be rotatable about an axis of the through hole and so as not to be movable along the axis and that has an inner hole into which a treatment instrument is fitted and with which the treatment instrument is engaged in a circumferential direction; and a rotating mechanism including a driving-force transmitting member that is wound around the fitting member and that rotates the fitting member about the axis using tension.
Abstract:
An initialization method for a manipulator includes: a reference angle maintaining step of setting a rotational angle of a joint part to a reference angle that has been predetermined, and maintaining the reference angle in a state where a driving force relay part is switched to a driving force release state; a drive part coupling step of switching the driving force relay part to a driving force relay state in a state where the joint part is arranged at a position where an initialization operation is performed after the reference angle maintaining step is performed; and an origin setting step of performing matching of a drive origin of a drive part according to a state of the rotational angle.
Abstract:
The medical apparatus includes an endoscope 2, a manipulator 3 having at least one degree of freedom, a flexible cylindrical sheath 4 mounted on an outer circumference of the manipulator 3, a treatment tool 5 inserted through the sheath 4, and an endoscope/manipulator operating unit 11 for independent operation of the endoscope 2 and manipulator 3.
Abstract:
A clip device includes a clip unit including an openable arm; a hook detachably connected to the clip unit; a wire configured to operate the clip unit and connected to the hook, a tubular member through which the hook is insertable; and a claw portion provided in the hook. In a first state in which the hook is connected with the clip unit, the claw portion is configured to have a radial dimension larger than an inner diameter of the tubular member, and in a second state in which the hook is disconnected from the clip unit, the radial dimension of the claw portion is equal to or less than the inner diameter of the tubular member.
Abstract:
Provided is a flexible-manipulator sheath including: a flexible inner tube having a lumen along a longitudinal direction thereof, the lumen configured to insert a wire; a flexible outer tube disposed to cover an outer circumferential surface of the inner tube, the outer tube having a higher compression stiffness than the inner tube; and a cushioning disposed at a space between an inner surface of the outer tube and an outer surface of the inner tube, wherein the cushioning is formed by at least one of filling the space with a viscous material and disposing an elastic sheet at the space.
Abstract:
A correction jig of a medical master-slave manipulator system limits a straight state of a master manipulator, in a state where the correction jig is attached to the master manipulator.