Adapters with control systems for controlling multiple motors of an electromechanical surgical instrument
AssigneeEthicon, Inc.
InventorsFrederick E. Shelton, IV, Jason L. Harris, Jerome R. Morgan
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AssigneeEthicon, Inc.
InventorsFrederick E. Shelton, IV, Jason L. Harris, Jerome R. Morgan
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An adapter for use with an electromechanical surgical instrument. The adapter includes a shaft assembly and a surgical end effector that is selectively articulatable and rotatable relative to the shaft assembly through a range of articulated and rotated positions. The adapter includes a firing member that is axially displaceable through the end effector. The adapter also includes a control system that operably interfaces with an articulation actuator assembly of the adapter and a source of articulation motions in the electromechanical surgical instrument to cause the source of articulation motions to apply additional rotary articulation motions to the articulation actuator assembly that are required to maintain the surgical end effector in an articulated position during an application of axial firing motions to the firing member.
An adapter for use with an electromechanical surgical instrument, said adapter comprising:
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