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US 11,832,997 B2Granted
Devices to enhance robotic arm tasks
AssigneeSteerable Instruments NV
InventorsFrank Dewaele, Lieven Maene, Bart Blanckaert, Cyriel Mabilde, Alain Kalmar
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Abstract
Provided is a stable mounting for a robotic arm, a tool changer for a robotic arm, a motion restrictor for a robotic-arm controlled steerable tool, a dispenser unit for applying a sterile drape over a robotic arm, and a tool radial actuation assembly (TRAA), a robotic arm fitting radial actuation assembly (FRAA).
Claims14
A structural support unit, SSU, for vertical fitting in a room and for support of a boom unit comprising:
- a telescopic vertical supporting part, VSP, having an lower end and an upper end, the lower end configured for contacting a floor of the room and the upper end configured for attachment to a VSP receivable mounting in the ceiling of the room thereby stabilizing the structural support unit in relation to the room for support of the boom unit,
- wherein
- the boom unit is slidably and optionally revolutely attached to at least part of the VSP,
- a load of the boom unit comprises an assembly of two or more surgical robotic arms,
- the VSP comprises a telescopic part configured to retract and deploy the upper end (40) of the VSP, and
- the VSP receivable mounting comprises a slot into which the VSP upper end engages to stabilize the VSP in a vertical direction.
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A structural support unit for use as a vertical fitting in a room and for support of a boom unit in an operating theater,
- wherein the structural support unit comprises:
- a telescopic vertical supporting part, VSP, having an lower end and an upper end, the lower end configured for contacting a floor of the room and the upper end configured for attachment to a VSP receivable mounting in the ceiling of the room thereby stabilizing the structural support unit in relation to the room for support of the boom unit,
- wherein:
- the boom unit is slidably and optionally revolutely attached to at least part of the VSP,
- a load of the boom unit comprises an assembly of two or more surgical robotic arms, and
- the VSP comprises a telescopic part configured to retract and deploy the upper end of the VSP;
- and
- wherein the use comprises attaching the VSP upper end to the VSP receivable mounting placed in the ceiling of the operating theater.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.