Cart for robotic arms and method and apparatus for cartridge or magazine loading of arms
AssigneeVerb Surgical Inc.
InventorsDavid James Cagle, Wayne Grout, Seung Mo Lim, Karen Shakespear Koenig, Robert T. Wiggers
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Abstract
Apparatus and methods for providing a robotic arm cart for transporting, delivering, and securing robotic arms to a surgical table having a tabletop on which a patient can be disposed are described herein. In some embodiments described herein an arm cart can contain multiple robotic arms. A robotic arm can be selected and moved from a storage position within the arm cart to a deployment position in which at least a portion of that robotic arm protrudes from the arm cart. A robotic arm in a deployment position can be coupled to a surgical table and decoupled from the arm cart.
Claims20
A method for delivering one or more robotic arms to a surgical table, the method comprising:
- moving an arm cart containing a robotic arm from a storage location to the surgical table;
- rotating a rotary mechanism such that the robotic arm moves from a first position to a second position;
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- coupling the robotic arm to the surgical table after the robotic arm is in the second position.
An apparatus, comprising:
- one or more robotic arms, each robotic arm configured to be coupled to a surgical table;
- an arm cart configured to contain the one or more robotic arms;
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- a rotary mechanism, each robotic arm from the one or more robotic arms configured to be coupled to the rotary mechanism, the rotary mechanism configured to spin to simultaneously move the one or more robotic arms from one or more first positions to one or more second positions.
A cart comprising:
- an arm container configured to house one or more robotic arms;
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- a rotary mechanism, wherein each of the one or more robotic arms is releasably coupled to the rotary mechanism and is in a respective first position at which the robotic arm is entirely disposed within the arm container,
- wherein the rotary mechanism is configured to simultaneously move each of the one or more robotic arms from its respective first positions to a respective second position at which at least one robotic arm is at least partially disposed outside the arm container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.