Adapting manual laparoscopic surgical instruments for robotic telesurgery applications
AssigneeSina Robotics and Medical Innovators Co. Ltd
InventorsFarzam Farahmand, Alireza Mirbagheri, Saeed Behzadipour, Alireza Alamdar, Shahrzad Hanifeh, Seyed Mohsen Khadem, Mohamad Mehdi Moradi
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Abstract
A tool adapting device attaches to a robotic surgery arm, and receives a manual surgical instrument, and translates movement by the robotic surgery arm into multiple degrees of freedom of the manual surgical instrument, to interact with a tissue under surgery.
Claims14
A tool adapting device for adapting manual surgical instruments for robotic surgery applications, the device comprising:
- an attachment interface configured for connecting the tool adapting device to a distal end of a robotic surgery arm;
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- a tool activating mechanism configured for holding a manual surgical instrument having a wrist joint, the wrist joint providing the manual surgical instrument with a pitch degree of freedom and a yaw degree of freedom, the tool activating mechanism including a first actuating mechanism coupled with a spherical mechanism, the spherical mechanism being attached to a handle of the manual surgery instrument, the first actuating mechanism being configured to rotate the handle of the manual surgery instrument about the pitch and yaw axes relative to a sleeve of the manual surgical instrument via the spherical mechanism.
A tool adapting device for adapting manual surgical instruments for robotic surgery applications, the device comprising:
- an attachment interface configured for connecting the tool adapting device to a distal end of a robotic surgery arm;
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- a tool activating mechanism configured for holding a manual surgical instrument having a wrist joint, the wrist joint providing the manual surgical instrument with a pitch degree of freedom and a yaw degree of freedom, the tool activating mechanism including a first actuating mechanism coupled with the wrist joint, the first actuating mechanism being configured to rotate the wrist joint of the manual surgery instrument about the pitch and yaw axes relative to a sleeve of the manual surgical instrument.
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